Stem a foot or more long, herbaceous, moderately stout, trailing, branched from the base, thinly silky upwards. Stipules linear. Petioles spreading or erecto-patent, under half an inch long. Leaves with 3–5 pairs of leaflets, oblanceolate, 3/8– 1/2 in. long, the apex rounded and mucronate, the lateral ones opposite, both sides glaucous and thinly silky, and the lower also dotted with black glands. Flowers in dense nearly sessile axillary racemes an inch or more long. Calyx 1/8 in. deep, thinly silky, the teeth setaceous, reaching down nearly to the base. Corolla red, about equalling the calyx. Pod deflexed, oblong, mucronate, 1/4 in. long, 1/8 in. thick, subterete, slightly torulose, thinly villose, 2–3-seeded.
