A shrub, 8–12 ft. high, the branches terete, the young ones densely grey- or ferruginous-velvety. Fully developed leaves 1 ft. long, the petioles 2 in.; leaflets in 8–10 pairs and a terminal one, the upper ones oblong or ovate-oblong, 2–2 1/2 in. long by half as broad, bluntish, the base cordate, the lateral ones not quite opposite; texture subcoriaceous, upper surface glabrous, lower coated all over with grey-ferruginous tomentum. Flowers in terminal panicles with long, narrow, racemose, erecto-patent branches; pedicels about equalling the calyx, which is campanulate, under 1/8 in. deep, the divisions lanceolate, densely brown-velvety on the back. Petals whitish, rotundate-cuneate, considerably shorter than the calyx. Carpels 1–5, 1–1 1/2 in. long, 1/2 in. thick below, considerably curved and narrowed upwards, deeply wrinkled with longitudinal grooves, clothed with bright red velvety tomentum.
