Tree up to 24 m high, bole stout, up to 7 m, d.b.h. 45 cm. Branchlets terete, glabrous. Stipules not seen; stipular glands linear, c. 0.5 mm. Leaves: rachis up to 16 cm, glabrous or minutely puberulous, glands circular, with slightly raised margins and a central orifice, 1-2 mm in diameter; pinnae 1-4 pairs, 7-17 cm, scarcely puberulous, glabrescent, glands ± similar to the rachis-glands; petiolules 5-6 mm, glabrous; leaflets 2-4 pairs per pinna, opposite, with an additional unpaired basal one, coriaceous, drying dark chestnut-brown, ± equal-sided, ovate or broadly elliptic, 10-26 by 4-11.5 cm, base broadly cuneate, slightly tapering into the petiolule, apex obscurely acute or acuminate, both surfaces glabrous, principal lateral veins 7 or 8 pairs per leaflet-half, arching, reticulation very dense and raised on both surfaces. Inflorescences both cauliflorous and terminal, minutely scat-tered-puberulous, consisting of branched panicles, up to 20 cm, flowers racemosely arranged on lateral branches up to 11 cm; floral bracts ovate, concave, c. 3 mm; pedicels 0.5-1.5 cm, glabrous. Flowers pentamerous, bisexual. Calyx green, sub-campanulate or cup-shaped, 12-14 mm, margin irregularly shallowly lobed. Corolla creamy-white, funnel-shaped, 22-30(-35) mm, golden tomen-tellous especially in distal part; lobes oblong, acute, c. 15 mm. Stamens creamy white, up to 50 mm, tube equalling the corolla-tube. Ovaries 5-8, pubescent. Pods and seeds unknown.
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