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Flowers enclosed in bud between a pair of sepal-like valvate bracteoles. Calyx obsolete or reduced to minute teeth. Petal 1, posterior, obovate-cuneate or roundish exceeding the bracteoles, lateral and anterior petals obsolete, or one of the lateral ones occasionally developed shorter than or nearly equalling the posterior. Stamens 10, all antheriferous, filaments filiform, glabrous, free or minutely coherent at base; anthers small, broadly elliptical, versatile, dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary densely hairy, shortly stipitate, biovulate; style filiform, stigma terminal, capitate. Legume not seen. Tree, unarmed, glabrous excepting the inflorescence. Leaflets unijugate, coriaceous, 2–3-nerved. Flowers in short, dense, axillary racemes. Bracts scarious, deciduous; bracteoles enclosing the bud, spreading or reflexed during flowering.