A tree 10–20 ft. high, branches clothed with fine grey-brown pubescence. Petioles 12–15 lines long. Leaves 4–10 in. long with 7–9 oblong or obovate-oblong acuminate or cuspidate coriaceous leaflets, pale green and rather shining above, opaque and finely silky on the ribs beneath, terminal one 3–6 in. long, 1 1/4–2 1/2 in. broad; petiolules 2 lines long with persistent setaceous stipellæ. Flowers in copious rigid ascending axillary panicles with short arcuate ascending racemose branches naked downwards. Pedicels 1–2 lines long, densely silky. Calyx 7–8 lines long, bracteoles half as long, both densely grey-silky, the hooded violet upper lip 1/2 in. broad. Corolla just as long as the calyx, yellowish. Pod 3–3 1/2 in. long, 3/4 in. broad, permanently pale brown velvety.
