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Tree 3–12 m. high, with rounded or spreading crown. Leaves: stipules often with foliaceous ovate-cordate auricles up to ± 2.5–4 cm. long and 2–2.5 cm. wide; petiole with rhachis 15–27 cm. long; leaflets 3–4(–5) pairs, ovate-elliptic, elliptic, or less commonly oblong-elliptic, (7–)10–25 cm. long, (4–)4.8–12.7 cm. wide (larger—to ± 40 × 20 cm.—on coppice or juvenile shoots), ± densely pubescent or tomentose at least on midrib and lateral nerves beneath and sometimes all over; primary lateral nerves (9–) 12–14 on each side of the midrib in mature leaflets. Panicles lax; ultimate racemose branches 5–25 cm. long, dark brown-tomentose. Bracts 4–8 mm. long. Pedicels of open flower 4–13 mm. long. Bracteoles brown, 11–20 mm. long, 10–12 mm. wide. Sepals 5–6. Petals white; upper one obovate or obovate-elliptic, rounded not bilobed at apex, 12–15 mm. long, 6–10 mm. wide; 4–5 smaller, 10–13 mm. long, 3.5–5 mm. wide. Stamens 10(–14). Pods large, 15–30 cm. long, 5.4–8.5 cm. wide, with dense rusty-brown tomentum partially rubbing off with maturity. Seeds 2.5–3.2 × 1.8–3 cm. Fig. 28/9, 10, p. 140.