herbaceous, erect, densely and softly hairy; branches angular; leaves short-petioled, 4–6-jugate, the common petiole gland-stipelled; leaflets elliptic-oblong, subobtuse, mucronulate, villous on both sides, the terminal petioled; stipules setaceo-subulate, long; racemes subspicate, on long, hirsute peduncles, densely many-flowered; bracts minute; calyces hirsute, the segments subulate-acuminate; legumes short, turgid, mucronate, deflexed, densely hirsute, few-seeded. Stem one or two feet high; the whole plant densely clothed with long, soft, pale hairs. Leaves 1 1/2–2 inches long, closely set. Leaflets 4–6 lines long, 2–3 lines wide. Flowers small, closely set, subsessile, on peduncles 4–6 inches long. Legumes strongly deflexed, imbricating, very hairy with dark or blackish hairs.
