suffruticose, erect, virgate, the ribstriate stem, the petioles and peduncles thinly silky; leaflets 8–10-jugate, elliptical or elliptico-lanceolate, acute or mucronate, thinly silky-villous on one or both sides; stipules lanceolate-acuminate, membranous; peduncles much longer than the leaves, laxly racemose, at length rigid; pedicels much longer than the puberulous calyx; calyx-lobes taper pointed; legume glabrous, compressed, (small), obliquely obovate-oblong, stipitate, mucronate, 3–4 seeded. 2–3 feet high, subsimple or branched from below, the branches erect, straight or incurved; the stem fistular, pale. Foliage subcanescent; petioles 1 1/2–2 inches long, Peduncles 3–6 inches long. Flowers 2–2 1/2 lines long, white or pale-purple. Legumes 8–9 lines long, 5–6 lines wide.
