Shrub or tree, often densely branched. Leaves 1-foliolate, the leaflets ovate to ovate-oblong, up to 9.5 cm. long, up, to 5 cm. wide, obtuse or tapering gradually, the acumen vague or obvious, variable at the base, coriaceous, lustrous, often sub-bulate above, puberulent, the costa subplane or subimmersed above; petioles 0.3-1 cm. long; stipules ovate to widely subulate, up to 0.2 cm. long. Inflorescences cymose-paniculate, the rachises shorter than the leaves; pedicels about 1.5 mm. long, puberulent; bracts ovate or reniform-ovate, up to 1.5 mm. long; bracteoles oval to oblong-lanceolate, 0.6-1 mm. long; Flowers with the hypanthium about 4 mm. long, the teeth minute, the carinal tooth about twice the length of the others, up to 1.8 mm. long; vexillum narrowly oblong to rectangular, up to 9 mm. long; wing petals narrowly oblong, up to 9.5 mm. long, obtuse, the claw about 3.5 mm. long; stamens monadelphous, the filaments and the sheath subequal in length; ovary stipitate for 2-4 mm. glabrous to minutely puberulent, the style about 1.5 mm. long. Fruits stipitate for about 0.3 cm. long, oblong-rotund to narrowly oblong, 1.2-3.5 cm. long, up to 2.5 cm. wide, obtuse at the apex, obtuse to cuneate basally, flat, rarely con-stricted medially, smooth, lustrous; seeds flat, oblong or oblong-rectangular, up to 1.5 cm. long.
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