branchlets glabrous or downy; leaves trifoliolate, leaflets petiolulate, oval, acuminate at each end, dentato-serrate, glabrous, bearded in the axils of the veins; peduncles divided into 2–3 subspicate racemes, thinly downy; carpels black, sub-globose, one often abortive. Branches and branchlets whitish. Petioles 1 1/2–2 inches long, minutely downy, little channelled, the lateral petiolules 1–2 lines, intermediate 2–3 lines long. leaflets 3–4 inches long, 1 1/4–2 inches broad, somewhat leathery, when dry dark above, pale green below, with raised veins, the margin coarsely toothed or sub-serrate. Infl. longer or shorter than the leaves, its branches spreading, 1–3 inches long. Fl. minute, whitish, on pedicels 1/2–1 line long, solitary, in pairs or ternate. Calyx concave, 1/2 line long. Filaments hairy, exserted, with versatile anthers. Style bifid. Carpels 1 line long.
