Schizozygia Baill.

Shrub or small tree, repeatedly dichotomously branched and with 2 inflorescences in each fork, with white latex; branchlets terete. Leaves opposite, those of a pair equal, petiolate; lamina obovate, cuneate at the base. Inflorescences corymbose, congested. Flowers actinomorphic except for the sometimes slightly unequal sepals; calyx green; corolla with tube yellow and limb creamy to yellow; tube slightly shorter to much longer than the calyx; lobes in the bud overlapping to the right, spreading. Fruit composed of 2 almost free adaxially dehiscent carpels, wall thinly coriaceous, irregularly striate, grooved when dry. Seeds few, surrounded by a thin red or orange pulpy aril, obliquely ellipsoid, with a deep groove to 1/2 their width at the hilar side and shallowly grooved at the other sides, minutely rugose; endosperm copious, starchy, white.

Worldwide: 1 species in tropical Africa.

Malawi: 1 taxon.