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A handsome leafy tree. It is 6-12 m tall. It has wide spreading branches. There are 1-2 stems which are up to 30 cm across. The bark is thick, ribbed and grey-brown. The leaves are on long hairy stalks. They are alternate and have 5-10 stalkless leaflets. These radiate like fingers on a hand. They are oblong but narrow to both ends. They are usually 10 cm long by 5 cm wide. They are velvety on both sides. The flowers are in sprays at the ends of branches. These can be 10 cm long. Flowers are waxy and yellow. The sepals look like petals. The flowers are saucer-shaped and 2-2.5 cm across. The fruit are made up of carpels each 9-20 cm long by 7-13 cm wide. They can be singly or in groups of 2-5. They split along the upper surface to form boat shaped structures. These have spines over them. The openings are fringed with irritating hairs. The seeds are large and can be 2.5 cm long. They are black and rich in oil. They are edible.
Deciduous tree, up to 10 m high. Leaves digitately 5-9-foliolate on petiole 100-230 mm long, leaflets oblong-ovate to oblong-lanceolate narrowed to both ends. Fruit of 1-5 free follicles, outer surface covered with spines of different lengths. Flowers yellow, marked with brown or crimson.
