A tree, 60 ft. high, with strong, woody, glabrous, grey, terete branches. Petioles 1 in. long, woody, glabrous, with a pair of oblong-cuneate subsessile leaflets at the apex, which are 5–6 in. long, 2 in. or rather more broad, the inner side rather narrower than the outer; apex bluntish, the edge entire, texture subcoriaceous, both sides glabrous, pale green, the upper one rather glossy, the veins beneath raised. Flowers in copious, sessile, moderately close, simple, axillary racemes, about 3 in. long and 3/4 in. broad. Pedicels 2 lines long, slender, glabrous, with a short herbaceous bract at the base. Calyx glabrous, herbaceous, 1/8 in. deep, with 5 deltoid lobes that do not reach more than halfway down. Petals 5, whitish, downy, with a large scale. Stamens usually 8, densely grey-villose, twice as long as the calyx; anthers oblong. Fruit unknown.
