Tree up to 20 m high with a somewhat rounded drooping crown, seldom completely leafless; bole sometimes slightly buttressed. Bark greyish, yellowish- or pale reddish-brown to black, fairly smooth or sometimes roughish on old plants; slash blood-red; young branchlets glabrous, lenticellate. Leaves alternate, with a single pair of leaflets, glabrous: petiole 1,5-3,5(4) cm long; leaflets subsessile, asymmetric, (3,4)4-10 cm long, 1,5-4,2 cm wide (in our area), ovate-falcate, the outer margin strongly convex, the inner margin nearly straight or slightly convex, obtuse or acuminate apically, midrib proÂminent and raised on the lower surface, with 7-11 pairs of primary lateral veins, reticulate venation conspicuous on both surfaces, coriaÂceous, glabrous or sometimes very sparingly pubescent basally when young, with scattered pellucid gland-dots. Stipules linear-lanceolate, 1-2 cm long, 0,2 cm wide, rapidly deciduous (fide Leonard in F.C.B. 3 : 364). Inflorescence an axillary or terminal panicle up to 16 cm long, lateral branches up to 9 cm long, glabrous or sometimes very sparingly pubesÂcent whe
