suffruticose, decumbent, slender; branches filiform; leaves sparse, petiolate, trifoliolate; leaflets elliptic-oblong or obovate, thin, expanded, strigose on the under surface; stipules small, subulate; racemes subcapitate, few-flowered, on long, setaceous peduncles; calyx-segments subulate; petals glabrous; legumes turgid, 2–5 seeded, hispido-canescent. Root fibrous. Stems many from the crown, 1–2 feet long or more, spreading over the soil, alternately branched, strigose or glabrescent. Leaves an inch apart, on filiform petioles, 2–3 lines long. Leaflets 2–5 lines long, varying from obovate to elliptical, sometimes glabrous on the upper side, sometimes strigillose, always rigidly strigose beneath, upper surface pale. Flowers small, purple. Legumes sometimes 2 lines, sometimes 6–8 lines long.
