suffruticose, glabrous, or nearly so, with angular, virgate branches; leaves linear or obovato-linear or oblong, approximate, flattish, with slightly revolute margins, obtuse, mucronulate, midribbed; racemes terminal, many-flowered, elongating; pedicels clavate, shorter than the flower; bracts deciduous, subulate; alæ oval, obtuse, anterior sepals connate into a single, bidendate calyx segment; keel oblong, with a small crest, lat.-petals as long as the keel, obovate or obcordate; capsule oblong, bidentate, margined. 6–12 inches high, more or less branching. Leaves very variable in number and shape. Flowers with the perfume of violets; the keel dark purple, the wings pale, with dark green, branching veins, This species is readily known by the confluent anterior sepals, whose edges cohere for more than 2/3 of the whole length.
