suffruticose, erect, rigid, strigoso-canescent; branches ribbed and furrowed; leaves subsessile, 3–4 jugate; leaflets linear-oblong or subcuneate, subacute, wavy, silky-canescent on both sides, the terminal petioled; stipules small, subulate; racemes on long, rigid, furrowed peduncles, subspicate, densely many-flowered; calyx-segments subulate; petals glabrous; legumes terete, with prominent sutures, straight, deflexed, thinly canescent, many-seeded. Many-stemmed, 12–14 inches high, chiefly branched from the base; branches erect and subsimple. Leaves about an inch apart; leaflets 1/2– 3/4 inch long, 1–2 lines wide, the terminal shortly petioled. Peduncles 5–6 inches long, after flowering becoming very rigid. Flowers closely crowded, pinky-purple, 3 lines long. Legumes 1–1 1/4 inch long, slightly rugulose, 12–14 seeded. The whole plant is very pale, whitish-green, harsh to the touch and rigid.
