erect, shrubby, divaricately-branched, unarmed; leaves (small) ovate or cordate at base, emarginate, glabrous, veinless, coriaceous, glaucescent; leaflets semicircular, concrete nearly to the summit; peduncles short, solitary or fascicled, one-flowered; calyx campanulate, shortly 5- toothed, persistent, its lobes deltoid, erect; petals inserted with the stamens on a perigynous disc in the base of the calyx, obovate, purple-veined; stamens 10, all perfect, 5 shorter; ovary glandular; legume stipitate, broadly and shortly falcate, few-seeded, either quite smooth or covered with small, wartlike glands. A rigid, laxly-branched shrub, with ash-colour bark, and bare, virgate, spreading branches. Leaves scattered or tufted on very short, lateral twigs. Petioles slender, 1/2 inch long; leaves 1/2 inch long, 3/4 inch wide, pale green. Flowers generally on the lateral twigs, 2–3 together. Peduncles 1/2– 3/4 inch long. Calyx 5 lines long; petals thrice as long, elegantly veiny. The legume varies remarkably in its surface, as above stated.
