Japan Flora: Deciduous tree; leaves 15-25 cm. long, the leaflets 9-15, ovate to narrowly so, 2.5 cm. long, 15-25 mm. wide, acute to subobtuse, sometimes with a minute stipel at base, deep green, glaucescent and appressed-pubescent beneath; panicles 15-30 cm. long, broadly pyramidal, with short appressed pubescence; flowers 12-15 mm. long, white to yellowish; calyx 3-4 mm. long, pubescent, the teeth depressed 4-angled, short-villous on the margins; legumes stiped, loosely appressed-pubescent, glabratc, 5-8 cm. long, rather fleshy. July-Aug.