Herbaceous, erect, 2–3 ft. high, with numerous erecto-patent branches, only the young ones inconspicuouslygrey-pubescent. Stipules linear, 6–9 lines, persistent. Petioles reaching 2–2 1/2 in.Leaflets 3, shortly-stalked, obovate, 1 1/2–3 in. long, 12–18 lines broad, blunt with a faint mucro, glaucous, glabrous. Flowers in lax terminal racemes reaching a foot long. Bracts minute, setaceous, deciduous. Pedicels 2–3 lines. Calyx subglabrous, 3/8 in. the tube very shallow, the teeth linear-lanceolate. Standard violet-blue internally, slightly exceeding the calyx; wings and keel sulphur-yellow, shorter. Ovary short-stalked, linear-oblong, thinly grey-silky. Pod unknown.
Distribution
Angola Lower Guinea Pungo Andongo,2400–3800 ft., Dr. Welwitsch!
