A tall forest tree with slender, glabrous branchlets and hard wood, usually found in localities with a dry season. Leaves deciduous, glabrous, reported with caducous, membranaceous, acuminate stipules about 1 cm. long; petiole to 2 cm. long; leaflets 2, 5-7 cm. long and 2-3 cm. broad, markedly reticulate, subfalcate, inequilateral, acuminate, obliquely rounded or obtuse basally, short-petiolulate, the petiolules 3-4 mm. long. Inflorescence as described for genus. Flowers not de-scribed nor examined. Legume pedicellate (about 8 mm.), broadly obovate, about 3 cm. long and 1.6 cm. broad, flattened, glabrous, verrucose-reticulate with narrow sutures, apically mucronulate, slightly arcuate above, rounded below, 1-seeded; seed almost 2 cm. long, obliquely ovate, depressed, persistent on the dehisced fruit hanging by the funicle; funicle dilated into a narrow, cupuliform aril.
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