An undershrub 2–3 ft. high with very numerous ascending finely grey-downy branches. Stipules 1 line, setaceous, persistent. Leaves subsessile, 9–18 lines long; leaflets 9–11, obovate, 1/4– 3/8 in. long, 2–2 1/2 lines broad, grey and persistently scabrous with minute grey bristles on both sides, all distinctly stalked, the side ones opposite. Racemes exceeding the leaves, 12–20-flowered, 1 1/2–2 in. long, shortly peduncled. Bracts like the stipules. Pedicels 1/2 line, cernuous, brown-silky. Calyx 3/4 line, densely coated with mixed brown and grey bristles, teeth setaceous, rather exceeding the tube. Corolla 1/4 in., violet, less fugacious than in most of its allies, densely brown-silky on the outside. Ovary linear, clothed with adpressed grey bristles, multiovulate. Pod not seen.
Distribution
Lower Guinea Highlands of Huilla province, Benguela, 5400 ft., Dr. Welwitsch!
