Small tree to c. 9 m high, girth c. 30 cm. Branchlets lerete, puberulous in the distal parts, glabrescent. Leaves: rachis 5-16 cm, puberulous, gland(s) urceolate with a narrow orifice, c. 2 mm in diameter; pinnae 1 or 2 pairs, (2—)4—11(—14.5) cm, puberulous; petiolules 1-4 mm, puberulous; leaflets ' l-)3 pairs per pinna, opposite, coriaceous, drying brown or green above, olive-green beneath, ± unequal-sided, ovate, elliptic, obovate-elliptic, or trapezoid-lanceolate, (5.5-)6-24 by (2.5-)3-10.5 cm, base asymmetrically cuneate, apex narrowly obtuse to acuminate, upper surface glabrous except for puberulous main vein, lower surface puberulous; principal lateral veins 8(—14) per leaflet-half, parallel, ± arching; reticulation lax, prominulous above, prominent and raised beneath. Inflorescences terminal and axillary at the distal leaves, very densely puberulous, consisting of pedunculate glomerules aggregated into panicles, 30 by 28 cm; glomerules consisting of c. 5 sessile flowers; floral bracts elliptic-oblong, c. 2 mm, sericeous. Flowers pentamerous, bisexual, white, sweetly scented. Calyx broadly cup-shaped, 4-5.5 mm, densely puberulous to sericeous, teeth ± irregular, triangular, acute, 0.5-1.5 mm. Corolla funnel-shaped, 10-12 mm, sericeous; lobes ovate-elliptic, acute; 4-5.5 mm. Stamens 25-30 mm, tube equalling the corolla-tube. Ovary solitary, sericeous. Pod brownish outside, deep reddish inside, contorted into a lax spiral, to c. 13 by 1.8-2 cm, rigidly chartaceous, not or only slightly sinuate between the seeds, short-puberulous, veins inconspicuous, dehiscing first along the ventral suture. Seeds black, ellipsoid, flattened, 14-15 by 11-12 by 6-8 mm.
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