A tree, with strong, glabrous, terete, woody branches. Leaves mostly 2-jugate, the leaflets short-stalked, the lower pair from near the base of the rachis, both oblong-cuneate, 4–5 in. long by about 1 1/2 in. broad; apex acute; edge entire, texture subcoriaceous, both sides glabrous, the upper one rather glossy, the veins beneath raised. Flowers in subsessile, simple, axillary racemes, 2–3 in. long, 1/2 in. broad, the lower ones 3–4 together, from a short, acute, herbaceous bract. Pedicels 1–1 1/2 lines long, slender, slightly downy. Calyx 1 line deep, glabrous, green, herbaceous, with 5 deltoid lobes reaching about half down. Petals very minute, whitish, villose. Stamens 8, the filaments filiform, slightly villose as in the preceding, much exserted. Fruit unknown.
