A wide-climbing shrub (sometimes 80 ft. long) with finely velvety woody branches. Petioles 3–6 in. long; developed leaves upwards of a foot long with 5–7 obovate coriaceous leaflets, conspicuously emarginate and mucronate, terminal 5–10 in. long, 3–7 in. broad, upper surface glabrous, the lower densely clothed with grey or ferruginous velvety tomentum. Petiolules 1/4 in. long, stipellate. Flowers fascicled in racemes sometimes a foot long or in ample panicles with racemose branches. Pedicels very short. Calyx 2 lines deep, campanulate, grey-velvety, the deltoid teeth not reaching a quarter down. Corolla pale rose, 1/2 in. deep, the wings and deep keel exceeding the oblong standard. Stamens all connate in a long tube. Pod membranous, linear-oblong, 2 1/2–3 in. long, 1 in. broad, glabrous, 1-seeded, with a wing 1/8 in. broad along the upper suture.
Distribution
Angola Lower Guinea Dr. Welwitsch!Senegal Upper Guinea Heudelot!
