Tree of moderate size, with a spreading crown; extremities as well as the young leaves and inflorescence softly pubescent-tomentose or villous. Leaves bipinnate, pinnæ opposite, abruptly 3–4-jugate or occasionally 2–3-jugate with a terminal pinna; leaflets in each pinna 8–13, alternate, coriaceous, obliquely elliptical or varying from ovate- to obovate-elliptical, obtuse or retuse, at length often glabrous at least above, and shining with prominent venation, 3/4–1 1/2 in. long. Common petiole sometimes with a gland or papilla between the pinnæ; petiolules rarely 1 line. Spikes dense, villous, often interrupted slightly, 1 1/2–3 in. long, collected in a short terminal panicle of 1/2 ft.; flowers sessile solitary or fascicled in the axil of small lanceolate bracts, mostly 5-merous, 2 lines long. Petals narrow-oblanceolate villous externally especially towards the margin, but slightly exceeding the narrow-oblong calyx-lobes. Stamens 10 or 1 or 2 imperfect, longer than the petals; filaments very thinly pilose. Ovary pilose, stipes below consolidated with the calyx-tube; style glabrous; ovules about 5. Legume flat, straight, oblong, usually very obtuse with a minute subterminal apiculus, narrowed below into a stipes of 1/4– 1/2 in.; 3–4 in. long, 1–1 1/4 in. broad.
