Habit and branches unknown. Stipules (acc. to Warburg, l.с.) lanceolate-falcate, 1 cm, persisting. Leaves: rachis c. 25 cm, glabrous, gland circular, sunken, without raised margins, c. 1 mm in diameter; pinnae 1 pair, 21.5 cm, minutely puberulous, glands similar to rachis-gland; petiolules black, 5-6 mm, minutely puberulous; leaflets 3 or 4 pairs per pinna (the lower leaflet sometimes unpaired), opposite, chartaceous, equal-sided, oblan-ceolate, 13-18 by 5-8 cm, base symmetrically narrow-cuneate, decurrent into the petiolule, apex rather abruptly acuminate, both surfaces glabrous; principal lateral veins c. 7 per leaflet-half, arching, non-parallel; reticulation prominulous above, prominent beneath. Inflorescences probably cauli-florous, consisting of racemes c. 2 cm long (acc. to Warburg, l.с.), indumentum and bracts unknown; pedicel 2 mm, glabrous. Flowers pentamerous, male. Calyx cup-shaped, 5-7 mm, glabrous, shal-lowly dentate. Corolla broadly campanulate, c. 18 mm, glabrous; lobes oblong-lanceolate, acute, c. 8 mm. Stamens 40-50 mm; tube about equalling the corolla-tube. Reduced ovaries 3-6, glabrous. Pod 7-9 cm long, basal part stalk-shaped, 2.5 cm, rugose; distal part c. 3 cm wide, apparently not dehiscent, with 5 oblong, glossy, brown seeds separated by c. 5 mm wide necks.
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