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Leaves 3-foliolate or the upper ones simple; leaflets 2–12 x 1–6 cm., lateral leaflets about 1/2 the median leaflet in size, lanceolate, ovate or broadly elliptic, apex obtuse, retuse or subacute, mucronulate, base cuneate or obtuse, rugose and glabrescent above with impressed nerves and veins, greyish and shortly lanate below with prominent nerves and veins; petiole up to 4 cm. long.
Inflorescence of short, dense, terminal racemes; pedicels pilose, up to 2 cm. long; bracts 3 mm. long, subulate, pilose, or the lower ones like the leaves but always simple and smaller.
Ovary on a gynophore c. 2.5 cm. long, ovoid, glabrous at first, soon becoming densely tomentose; ovules 14–16 on 2 placentas; stigma sessile, capitate.
Fruit c. 2.2 x 2 cm., ovoid, strongly verrucose, densely and shortly tomentose; exocarp fleshy but becoming fibrous, c. 4 mm. thick.
Shrub or small tree up to 6 m. tall with erect or occasionally sarmentose branches which are grey-lanate when young.
Receptacle cylindric, pilose outside, slightly widened at the mouth, 2.75 mm. long, 2.5 mm. in diam. at the mouth.
Petals white, 7 x 3.5 mm., obovate, rounded at the apex, shortly clawed at the base.
Seeds 1–2, c. 7 mm. in diam., subglobose; testa pale brown, slightly rugose.
Sepals 10 x 4 mm., oblong-ovate, apex acute, pilose outside, margin lanate.
Stamens c. 30; filaments c. 2.2 cm. long; anthers 1.5 x 0.75 mm., oblong.
Androgynophore c. 3.5 mm. long, shortly exserted from the receptacle.
