annual, strigoso-canescent; stem diffuse or suberect, angular; leaves on longish petioles, pinnately bi-trifoliolate; leaflets rhomboid-obovate or ovate, mucronulate, the terminal petiolate, much larger than the lateral; racemes spicate, subsessile, shorter than the leaf, densely flowered; calyx white hairy, its segments acuminate; petals glabrous; legumes crowded, deflexed, terete-subcompressed, slightly curved, albo-pilose, several seeded. Branches flexuous, angularly compressed. Petiole uncial, prolonged 3–4 lines beyond the first pair of leaflets. Lateral leaflets 4–5 lines long, 3–4 lines wide; terminal 6–10 lines long, 5–8 lines wide, flat, pale green above, white beneath, thinly covered on both sides with appressed, white hairs. Peduncles 1/2–1 uncial, 10–15 flowered. Flowers small. Legumes scarcely uncial. In Mr. Wyley's specimens one of the lateral leaflets is frequently absent.
