Family: Leguminosae

Description: 

Trees, 6-10 m high, bark 2-3 mm thick, surface brown or brownish-black. Leaves paripinnate, alternate; leaflets 6-12, opposite, oblong-ovate or ovate-lanceolate, margin entire, coriaceous; stipules 7-20 mm long, intra petiolar, scarious, ovate, connate. Flowers yellow-orange or red, in dense sessile paniculate corymbs, axillary to leaves or leaf scars. Calyx 4 cm long, petalloid, lobes 4, ovate-oblong, unequal. Petals 0. Stamens 7 or 8, much exserted, free. Fruit a pod 10-15 cm long, oblong, coriaceous or almost woody, tapering at both ends; seeds 2-8.