A shrubs or small tree. Leaves simple and 3-foliolate; leaflets sessile, obovate orobovate-oblong, entire, glabrate above, white-mealy beneath. Flowers small, borne inpanicles. Corolla tomentose, lavender to blue. Filaments hairy at the base. Fruitsglobose or obovoid drupes. Seeds obovate or oblong. (India) Evergreen or decidous shrubs or small to medium sized trees, sometimes large, up to45m tall; bole crooked to straight, up to 125cm in diameter, usually without buttressesbut sometimes with distinch buttresses, often deeply fluted;bark surface rather smoothto shallowly fissured or flaky, pale gray to pale yellowish brown, inner bark paleyellow to bright orange; crown often spreading. Leave opposite or in whorls of 3,palmately compound with 3-7(-9) leaflets, rarely reduced to one leaflet withoutstipules; leaflet entire dentate or lobed. Inflorescence terminal or axilalry, cymose thecymes sessile or pendulate, solitary, or arranged in racemes, thyrses or panicles.Flowers bisexual; calyx campanulate to tubular, 5 lobed to truncate corolla usuallywith a short tube, 2 lippet, upper lip 2 fid, lower 3 fid opten pubescent out side, whiteto blue or violet or rarely yellowish; Statmens 4 didynamous, inserted on the corollatube, exserted; ovary superrior usually first to locular and later 4 locular with a singleof ovule in each cell style 1 filiform stigma pipid. (Indonesia) Liana (Laos) Small tree. Bark smooth, pale grey. Young twigs quadrangular, pubescent. Leavesopposite, trifoliate, with a dense white tomentum beneath and a strong smell whencrushed. Inflorescence in terminal cyme; nowers pale violet. Drupe globose,embraced by the persistent calyx (Vietnam)