shrubby, divaricately much-branched, rigid, the branches, petioles and peduncles cano-pubescent or glabrescent; leaflets 5–8-jugate, cuneate-oblong, convolute, obtuse or retuse, glabrescent or piloso-villous beneath; stipules triangular, rigid; peduncles longer than the leaves, rigid, at length spinescent, laxly racemose; pedicels nigro-pubescent, longer than the nigrescent calyx; legume glabrous, compressed, obliquely obovate-oblong, tapering at base, 4–8 seeded, obtuse, the ventral suture straightish, the dorsal convex. A rigid, erect or spreading bush, 1–2 feet high, with patent, more or less canescent branches. Petioles 1 1/2 inch long; leaflets 3–5 lines long, their edges rolled in. Peduncles 3–5 inches long, spreading, the pedicels 4–5 lines apart, at length pendulous. Legume almost pyriform in outline, rigid, pale, and opaque, 1–1 1/4 inch long, 5–6 lines wide.