Sapium ellipticum (Krauss) Pax

An evergreen spreading shrub, or tree up to 50 m tall with a clear bole up to 12 m and a thin, open rounded crown with drooping branches, monoecious. Bark smooth and grey at first, later becoming brown or black, rough and fibrous. Twigs pale grey or brownish. Young shoots glabrous or sparingly puberulous and soon glabrescent. Leaves petiolate, the petioles 0.5–1.5 cm long, adaxially shallowly channeled; leaf blades 5–14(18) × 2–7 cm, elliptic-ovate, elliptic, elliptic-lanceolate or elliptic-oblong, subacute or obtusely to acutely shortly acuminate at the apex, cuneate or rounded and often minutely cordulate at the base, shallowly crenate-serrate, rarely subentire, with 2–4 glands on the margin at the base, firmly chartaceous to thinly coriaceous, usually completely glabrous, rarely sparingly puberulous on the midrib at first and later glabrescent, deep green on upper surface apart from the veins, paler dull green beneath; lateral nerves in 10–20 pairs, slightly prominent above and beneath. Stipules 2–2.5 mm long, triangular-ovate, acute, subentire, puberulous or glabrous, soon deciduous. Inflorescences usually terminal or subterminal on lateral shoots, erect, 3–12 cm long, very shortly pedunculate to almost sessile, all male or with 1–3(4) female flowers at the base; male bracts 1 mm long, ovate-suborbicular, denticulate, sparingly puberulous, with a glandular mass on each side at the base, 3–7-flowered; female bracts 2 mm long, 3-lobed, otherwise as in males. Male flowers: pedicels 1.5 mm long, puberulous; calyx lobes 2–3, unequal, 0.75 mm long, broadly ovate, glabrous or puberulous, ciliolate, yellowish-green; stamens 2–3, free, 1 mm long. Female flowers: pedicels 2–5 mm long, extending to 15 mm in fruit; calyx lobes 2–3, subequal, connate only at the base, 1.5 mm long, triangular, ciliolate, green; ovary 1.5 mm in diameter, usually 2-lobed, rarely 3-lobed or 4-lobed, smooth, glabrous; styles 2(4), 3–4 mm long, connate at the base, subpersistent. Fruit 6–9 × 8–12 mm, usually 2-lobed and laterally compressed, rarely 3–4-lobed or by abortion monococcous, indehiscent or subindehiscent, ± smooth, shiny, greenish; mesocarp fleshy; endocarp thinly crustaceous. Seeds c. 6 mm in diameter, subglobose, smooth, dull, pale greyish-brown, ecarunculate.

Source: http://plants.jstor.org/flora/fz7241