Tree, c. 8 m high. Twigs 2.5 mm in diam., glabrous. Leaves 1-or 2-jugate; petiole 2.25-5 cm long, 1-1.5 mm thick, above slightly hollowed; axes subglabrous; petiolules 3-5 mm long, above broadly rather deeply grooved, often with a faint median rib. Leaflets elliptic, 6-9 by 3-4.25 cm, index c. 2, coriaceous, above glabrous, beneath thinly minutely sericeous; domatia present, glands naked or covered by a hair tuft, or absent; base slightly oblique, acute, attenuate; sides curved; apex not to shortly acuminate, narrowly rounded; midrib above a slender prominulous rib, nerves 0.5-1.5 cm apart, above prominulous, intercalated veins well developed or sometimes absent, reticulum above moderately coarse, distinctly prominulous, beneath less prominent. Inflorescences axillary. Sepals free, 1.5-2.5 mm long. Petals 5, elliptic, 0.8-1.4 mm long, with a short claw, without a scale, either outside glabrous, inside woolly in the lower half, or on both sides woolly mainly in the lower half. Disc woolly. Stamens c. 7. Ovary 2-celled. Fruits ellipsoid, c. 2-2.5 by 1.25 cm, glabrous, appendages dense, 8-10 mm long, bulbous-based, the apical part triangular in cross section, curved; wall coriaceous, c. 0.5 mm thick.
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