A spreading shrub, up to 10 m in height, with lenticellate branchlets armed with paired, recurved prickles, large leaves, 10-20 pairs of oblong, membranous, obliquely truncate leaflets, bright yellow flowers in supra-axillary and terminal racemes, green beaked pods containing ellipsoid, black seeds.

burning sensation, wounds, ulcers, leprosy, skin diseases, diarrhoea, dysentery, epilepsy, leucorrhoea, diabetes, cancer