A small tree or shrub-like; extremities leafy, glabrous or finely pubescent at first. Leaflets unijugate, rarely bijugate, sessile, more or less coriaceous, oval oval-oblong or oblanceolate-oval, but slightly oblique, narrowed to the broad obtuse usually emarginate or minutely bifid apex, glabrous or with faint pubescence on the midrib beneath, reticulation not prominent, 1 1/2–3 1/2 in. long, 1/2–1 1/4 in. broad; petiole short and thick, 1/4 in. or less. Flowers white or rose in very short, often dense and many-flowered pubescent racemes or fascicles. Pedicels 1/6– 3/4 in., slender. Bracts scarious, concave, broadly rotundate, 1 line long, deciduous, closely imbricate over the unopened racemes; bracteoles concave or conduplicate, carinate, before the lengthening out of the pedicel wholly enclosing the bud, their margins valvate on the outer convex surface, imbricate on the inner face, caducous or occasionally remaining till expansion on the lower part of the pedicel. Calyx-lobes 4, 2 considerably narrower. Petals subequal, oval or oblong, acute or apiculate. Stamens usually 10. Ovary pilose, more or less stipitate, 1-ovulate. Legume thick, falcate, shortly oblong, rugose or corrugate, 3/4–1 1/4 in. long.