Tree up to 10 m high. Branchlets terete, greyish, lenticellate, puberulous in the distal parts, glabrescent. Stipules or stipular glands not seen. Leaves: rachis up to 22 cm, shortly puberulous; glands circular, sessile, ± raised, depressed in the central part, c. 1.5 mm in diameter; pinnae (1—)3—4 pairs, puberulous, up to 20 cm, glands ± circular, sessile, flat, c. 1 mm in diameter; petiolules 3-4 mm, densely puberulous; leaflets 3 or 4 pairs per pinna, opposite, chartaceous, drying greyish brown, unequal-sided, very broadly ovate or ovate-elliptic, 4-10 by 3-7 cm; base symmetrically cuneate or cuneate in the basiscopic part, rounded in the acroscopic part, apex acuminate; both surfaces puberulous, especially on the veins; principal lateral veins 5 or 6 per leaflet-half, arching, non-parallel; reticulation dense and prominent on both surfaces. Inflorescence terminal, densely rusty puberulous, consisting of pedunculate glomerules, aggregated into panicles up to 33 cm, glomerules consisting of 6-10 subsessile flowers; floral bracts not seen. Flowers pentamerous, bisexual. Calyx greenish brown, broadly campanulate, 2-2 5 mm, tomentose; teeth inconspicuous. Corolla greenish white, narrowly funnel-shaped, with a long narrow tube, 12-14 mm, rusty tomentose; lobes oblong, acute, 3-4 mm. Stamens to 30 mm, tube equalling the corolla-tube. Ovary(-ies) 1 (or 2), sericeous, sessile. Pod and seeds not known.
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