Medium-sized tree, 6 - l0m. high, branches erect, glabrous and brittle. Leaves entire,thick and shining glabrous, usually crowded in bundles at the end of the branches.Flowers pink, solitary in the leaf-axil. Fruit of 8 follicles, radiating, compressed; eachfollicle contains one seed. An parts of the plant, especially the fruit, are stronglyaromatic (Vietnam)