Canjura Dioecious shrub or small tree, to 7 (10) m tall; bark and wood with bitter sap. Leaves imparipinnate; petiolules ca 5 mm long, swollen throughout; leaflets mostly 5 or 7, alternate, elliptic to elliptic-ovate, acuminate, acute to rounded at base, 6-15 cm long, 3.5-6.5 cm wide, glabrous. Spikes opposite leaves, the stemmata ones densely flowered, to 5 cm. long, the pistillate ones long, pendent, to 46 cm long, usually on leafless stems; rachis and calyx scabridulous; calyx bowl-shaped, (4) 5-lobed to about middle; staminate flowers with calyx ca 1.5 mm long; petals (4) 5, white, cream, or greenish-white, linear-lanceolate, ca 2.5 mm long, glabrous; stamens (4) 5, long-exserted; anthers orange. Pistillate flowers numerous; calyx lobes and petals ovate, 1.5-2 mm long; ovary densely appressed-pubescent; style short; stigmas 2, stout, recurled, persisting in fruit. Fruits broadly oblong, to 1 cm long, orange-red; seeds 1 or 2, red outside. Croat 5263.