Xylia

Trees tall, unarmed, with hard wood. Leaves bipinnate, with 1 pair of large pinnae or with more pairs and smaller pinnae; petiolar gland elevated or obscure; stipules small, linear, deciduous. Flowers mostly bisexual, small, sessile, in capitate clusters on solitary, axillary peduncles, or subfasciculate, or racemose at the top of branches, pale green. Calyx tubular-campanulate, 5-dentate. Petals 5, slightly coherent at base, +/- pubescent or puberulous outside. Stamens 10, free, exserted; anthers ovate, with many pollen grains, glandular at apex. Ovary sessile, many-ovuled, pubescent; style filiform, with small, terminal stigma. Pod broadly falcate, compressed, thick and woody, 2-valved, with valves elastically recurved from apex, septate within between seeds. Seeds transverse, obovate, compressed, with short, fleshy funicle. x= 12.