Family: Combretaceae 

Description: 

Evergreen trees, to 30 m, bole often buttressed; blaze pink; exudation red, gummy; branchlets drooping. Leaves simple, opposite to alternate, estipulate; lamina oblong, elliptic, oblong-ovate or oblong-obovate, coriaceous, 2 glands at the base on the lowerside. Flowers bisexual, dull yellow, 2-3 mm across, in short axillary spikes. Petals 0. Stamens 10, in 2 rows. Fruit a drupe, 6 x 3 cm, oblong, 5-7 winged; seed one.