Vepris A.Juss.

Unarmed shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate, tri-or unifoliolate; leaflets many-nerved. Flowers functionally unisexual or bisexual, in terminal and/or axillary panicles, racemes or cymose clusters. Calyx saucer-shaped; sepals 3 or 4 or rarely 0. Petals 2 to 4, imbricate. Stamens 6 - 8, inserted at base of disk. Pistillodes rudimentary, 2-cleft above. Staminodes 6 - 8, with effete anthers. Ovary globose, 1 - 4 - locular, ovule 1 or 2 m each locule; stigma capitate, sessile. Fruits drupaceous, 1 - 4-locular, 1 - 2-seeded.

Tropical Africa, Malagasy, Mascarene Islands and peninsular India; 15 species, one m India.

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