glabrous, the branches and peduncles sprinkled with minute, scattered glands; lower leaves on long petioles, 5- foliolate, upper on short petioles, 3-foliolate; leaflets very narrow-linear, obtuse, with revolute margins, glaucous; petals, unequal, obovate; fertile stamens 2, sterile 6–8, thrice as short, clubshaped, with a globose appendicule; pods linear, subpendulous, glabrous. Two feet high or more, the stem and branches striate. Middle leaflets 6–10 lines long, 1/2 line wide, the lateral somewhat shorter. Petioles of the lower leaves as long as the leaflets. Peduncles in the axils of the upper leaves, 6–8 lines long, lengthening in fruit. Sepals oblong, acute, 2 lines long. Petals yellow, violet on the under side, the larger ones 8 lines long and 3–4 lines wide; smaller more than twice as narrow. Fertile stamens nearly an inch long. Pods 2–3 inches long, 1 1/2–2 lines wide; thecaphore 4–6 lines long.
