Shrub (semi-scandent, according to Marais 788), or small tree, up to 3 m high. Bark often conspicuously lenticellate. Leaves digitately 3-4-foliolate (sometimes single or 5-foliolate); stipules subulate, 1 mm long; leaflets elliptic or obovate, 6-15 cm long, 2-8 cm wide, apex acuminate to rounded, apicu-late, base cuneate, primary veins 6-8, looping before margin, very prominent on lower surface, coriaceous, glabrous. Flowers cauli-florous, pink to pale mauve, 2-6 in abbreÂviated racemes; peduncles 3-15 mm long; pedicels 5-10 mm long. Calyx-tube campanu-late, 4 mm long, intruse at base; lobes 4-5, oblong, 6-8 • 5 mm long, 3-4 mm wide, apex with long recurved mucro and several side l tucros, veined. Petals 0. Stamens 13-18, on a short torus; filaments 1—1 -4 cm long; anthers oblong, 2 mm long. Ovary on terete gyno-phore, ellipsoid, with about 7 ovules; style 0; stigma capitate, as broad as ovary. Fruit subglobose to ovoid with 4 longitudinal sutures, 1 • 7-3 cm long, 1 •
