young parts velvetty-canescent; leaves on long petioles, 2–3-jugate, leaflets broadly elliptic-oblong, mucronulate, at first tomentose, afterwards glabrescent or glabrous, netted-veined beneath; panicles hoary and velvetty, terminal, much-branched; calyx velvetty, its teeth deltoid, nearly equalling the tube; corolla glabrous; ovary 4-ovuled; legumes lanceolate-oblong, tapering at base, obtuse or acute, coriaceo-membranous, pale, glabrous. A tree 20–30 feet high, 2 feet in diameter. Leaves toward the ends of the branches and twigs. Common petiole 6–12 inches long, the pair of leaflets 1–1 1/2 inch apart. Leaflets very pale green, at first densely velvetty, canescent beneath, afterwards becoming naked, and when old quite glabrous. Panicles 6 inches long, alternately branched, the branches racemose, many-flowered. Calyx silvery, 3 lines long. Corolla purplish-pink. Flowers sweetly-scented. Ovary silky. Legumes 3–4 inches long, 3/4 inch wide, strongly compressed, of a parchment-like substance.
