A tree 30 ft. high, with strong, woody, finely grey-downy, sulcate branches. Petiole woody, 1 1/2–2 in. long. Leaflets oblong or with a slight obovate tendency, in 4–5 nearly sessile opposite pairs, the upper ones 4–6 in. long, 2–2 1/2 in. broad, blunt or bluntly cuspidate, the base broadly cuneate, the edge entire but slightly crisped; texture membranous, upper surface glabrous, the lower nearly so with the main veins a little raised. Flowers in fascicles in nearly sessile axillary racemes, 4–6 in. long, 1 in. broad. Petioles slender, 3–4 lines long, like the axis slightly downy, with a linear-subulate, deciduous, very downy bract at the base. Buds 1 1/2–2 lines long, the sepals oblong, blunt, finally reflexed and purplish with 2 prominent, grey, vertical ribs on the inside. Petals 0. Stamens 10, unequal, much exserted, naked. Capsule bony, oblong, rather pointed, 1/2 in. deep, clothed with dense, short, yellowish-grey tomentum.
