Suffruticose, 1 1/2–3 ft. high, erect, copiously branched, the erecto-patent rigid slender branches finely grey-downy. Stipules minute, linear, persistent. Petioles 1–4 lines long. Leaves 1–3 in. long; leaflets 7–13, oblong or oblanceolate, reaching 6–9 lines long, 2–3 lines broad, acute, greenish and thinly bristly above, grey and more densely bristly beneath, all distinctly stalked, the side ones opposite. Flowers 12–20 in very numerous moderately dense nearly sessile racemes, the upper exceeding the much-reduced leaves. Pedicels very short. Calyx 1/8 in. long, densely grey-hispid, the setaceous teeth reaching down nearly to the base. Corolla reddish purple, 4 lines long, grey-hispid externally. Pod oblong, tipped with the persistent style, 2 lines long, 1 line thick, usually 2-casually 1-seeded.
Distribution
Angola Lower Guinea Huilla and Pungo Andongo, Dr. Welwitsch!
