Shrub c. 3 m high, branches c. 1 cm in diameter. Branchlets glabrous. Stipules broadly oblong, c. 1.5 mm, inconspicuous, fused with the branch-lets. Leaves: rachis 2.5-7 cm, mucronate, adaxi-ally sulcate, glabrous; pinnae 1 or 2 pairs, angular-sulcate, glabrous, 4.5-6.2 cm; petiolule 0.5 mm, glabrous; leaflets 2-4 on each side of the pinna; thickly chartaceous-fleshy, drying bright deep green above and light green beneath, slighdy asymmetrically ovate, 2.3-4.1 by 1.5-2.8 cm, base asymmetrically rounded, apex truncate (to rounded), mucronulate, both surfaces glabrous, lateral veins about 7 per leaflet-half, hardly visible, oblique, straight, non-parallel. Racemes 3.5 cm, glabrous; bracts scarious, cordate and cuspidate 1-1.5 by 0.8 mm, glabrous, persisting for some time; pedicels 2.5 mm, glabrous. Flowers cream to yellow. Calyx cup-shaped, 0.75 mm, glabrous; teeth triangular, acute, 0.3 mm. Petals broadly oblong, acute, 3 mm, glabrous. Stamens c. 3 mm; anthers 0.5 mm. Ovary c. 1.5 mm, glabrous; style c. 0.7 mm. Pod black when ripe, linear, curved, c. 7 by 0.9 cm, valves ± sinuate between the seeds, spirally twisted after dehiscence, 6—8(—11) seeded. Seeds uniformly red, suborbicular to obliquely obovoid, 4.5-6 by 4.5-6 by 3.5-4 mm, strongly convex, pleurogram c. 4 by 4.5 mm, linea fissura ± parallel to the margin, open towards the hilum.
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