A medium sized tree, bark dark brown, young shoots glabrous or slightly hairy. Leaves 7.5-15 cm long, slightly broader than long, apex entire or notched, base cordate or truncate, subcoriaceous, glabrous, 9-11 nerved; petiole 3.5-8.8 cm, thickened at both the ends. Inflorescence lax terminal panicle, the lower branches are axillary. Flowers pedicellate, pedicel 1.5-2 cm long, covered with soft pube¬scence, bract 2.5 mm long, linear, bracteole below the flower, similar and smaller than bracts. Calyx 5-7.5 mm long, silky pubescent, split almost to the base into 2-3 segments. Petals 1-1.5 cm long, clawed, obovate, hairy externally, white, 3 upper mottled with purple. Stamens 3. Ovary hairy on the margins, stipitate; style elongated. Pod 10-17.5 cm long, 3-3.8 cm wide, short stalked, oblong or oblanceo¬late, flat, firm, dehiscence late. Seeds 6-8, flat, suborbicular, dark-brown, smooth.