Shrub up to 4 m tall. Branchlets terete, glabrous or minutely puberulous. Stipules not seen; stipular glands circular, concave, c. 0.5-1 mm. Leaves: rachis 2.5-6.5 cm, glabrous, gland circular, sessile, ± depressed in the central part, c. 1 mm in diameter; pinnae 1 pair, 12-22 cm, glabrous, glands similar to the rachis-gland; petiolules 2-3 mm, glabrous; leaflets 2V2-3 pairs per pinna, opposite, chartaceous, drying pale green or olive-brown, ± equal-sided, elliptic to oblong-elliptic, 6.5-23 by 3.5-8 cm, base broadly symmetrically cuneate, somewhat decurrent, apex short-acuminate to obtuse; both surfaces glabrous; principal parallel veins 5-9 per leaflet-half, erecto-patent, evenly distributed; reticulation prominulous above, prominent beneath. Inflorescences cauliflorous or ramiflorous, glabrous, slender, drooping, consisting of racemosely arranged, slender pedunculate racemes, 1.5-15 cm long, main axis 11-35 cm long, peduncular bracts spurred, 2 mm, glabrous; pedicels 6-11 mm, glabrous, floral bracts inconspicuous. Flowers pentamerous, male and bisexual, white. Calyx cupular, 1-2 mm, glabrous, inconspicuously dentate. Corolla funnel-shaped, 5.5-7 mm, glabrous; lobes ovate, acute, 2.5 mm. Stamens up to 24 mm, tube equalling the corolla-tube. Rudimentary ovaries 2 or 3 in male flowers, glabrous. Pod orange, curved or spirally contorted, c. 11 by 1.5 cm with distinct necks between the seeds, coriaceous-fleshy, glabrous, veins inconspicuous, dehiscing along the dorsal suture. Seeds not seen, said to be black.
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