Epiprinus Griff.

Trees, monoecious. Leaves alternate, stipulate. Flowers: sometimes zygomorphic, in terminal or axillary spiciform racemes. Male flowers: numerous in clusters; calyx 4 - 8-lobed, valvate, equal or unequal; petals and disc absent; stamens as many as calyx-lobes, surrounding a columnar pistillode; anthers dorsifixed, glandular at base. Female flowers: few at the base of the racemes; calyx of 5 - 8 unequal linear lobes; petals and disc absent; ovary 3-loculed; ovules 1 per locule; styles connate at base, trifid and again branching into 6 plumose stigmatic arms above. Fruits capsular, schizocarpic, 3-lobed; seeds globose; testa crustaceous; endosperm fleshy; cotyledons flat.

Tropical Asia, from Assam to Malaysia, ca 6 species; one in India.

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