shrubby, erect, variably pubescent; leaves shortly petiolate, 5–7-jugate; leaflets cuneate-oblong, or linear-oblong, obtuse or acute, retuse or mucronulate, variably pubescent on one or both sides; peduncles terminal and opposite the leaves, angular and canescent, fasciculato-corymbose at the summit; bracts broadly ovate, deciduous; calyx-teeth from a broad base subulate; legume broad, linear, glabrescent, plano-compressed, hispid at the sutures, many seeded; style bearded; vexillum silky. A rigid shrubby plant, 1–2 feet high, very variable in the amount of pubescence; sometimes subglabrous, sometimes with densely hairy stems and leaflets canescent beneath. Leaflets also very uncertain in length and breadth; sometimes shortly cuneate and almost obcordate, sometimes long and verging to lanceolate. Peduncles shorter or longer than the leaves. Flowers the largest in the genus, 8–10 lines long, red, fulvescent on the outside. The young flowers are enwrapped in very broad ovate bracts, which fall off on the opening of the flower.
