Small tree, the branchlets generally tomentulose. Leaves few-to several-jugate; the petiole stout, to 10 cm. long; the rachis puberulent to glabrous, elongate; leaflets narrowly elliptic to elliptic-oblanceolate (sometimes more or less ovate in basal pair), up to 30 cm. long and 9 cm. wide, apically long attenuate-cuspidate, basally acute to cuneate (infrequently obtuse or rounded), pubescent at least along the midvein below, dull, with a basal gland; petiolules to 5 mm. long, callous and often tomentose. Inflorescence axillary on older stems to subterminal, bracteate; the bracts to 7 cm. long, glabrous to lightly pubescent; common peduncle about 3 cm. long, tomentose, many-flowered; pedicels 4-7 mm. long, pubescent. Flowers large, red; bracteolar sheath about 3.5 cm. long, spathaceous and bilobate, usually canescent-tomentose; calyx-lobes 5, linear-oblanceolate to narrowly elliptic, 2.5-3.5 cm. long, up to 8 mm. wide, glabrous; petals 5, rounded apically, up to 4 cm. long, the claw about 1 cm. long; stamens 10-11, glabrous, basally connate, usually 8-9 cm. long; ovary narrow, stipitate, tomentose, in-cluding style about 10 cm. long.
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