a shrub; branches, petioles and (often) the nerves of the leaves prickly; leaflets petiolulate, broadly ovate, subobtusely acuminate, glabrous; racemes on long peduncles, densely many-flowered; calyx puberulous or tomentulose, tubular, shortly 5-toothed; vexillum minutely velvetty; vexillary stamen free nearly to the base; legumes unarmed. A shrub, growing always alone, in open places. Bark of the half herbaceous twigs dark-coloured, glabrous, and even. Prickles pale horn-colour, glossy, triangular. Leaves scattered, on glabrous petioles, 3–5 inches long, the terminal leaflet remote. Leaflets 2–3 inches long, 1 1/2–2 1/2 broad, all broad at base, coriaceous, green, reticulated, glossy. Peduncles 12–16 inches long, tapering, floriferous only beyond the middle; the rachis tomentulose. Flowers crimson-scarlet, 1–1 3/4 inch long. Ripe legumes not seen.
