A tree 20–30 ft. high with strong, woody, slightly grey-downy branches. Petioles 1/2 in. long, the rachis not winged; leaflets in 2 short-stalked, erecto-patent pairs about 1 in. apart, which are oblong, 3–4 in. long by about half as broad, narrowed gradually from the middle to both ends, the edge entire, texture subcoriaceous, colour pale green, both sides glabrous with the veinlets in relief. Flowers in copious, terminal, thyrsoid panicles crowded in the upper part of the branches; pedicels equalling the calyx, which is 1/8 in. deep, slightly downy, the 5 sepals oblong or roundish, blunt, unequal, much imbricated. Petals 5, whitish, spathulate, ciliated, with a small densely villose scale. Stamens 7–8, the filaments villose downwards. Capsule usually solitary, turbinate or globose, 1/2– 5/8 in. long, dark purple, fleshy, glabrous.
