Stem slender, herbaceous, twining, thinly clothed with deflexed bristly grey hairs. Stipules minute lanceolate. Petioles 1/2–1 in.; leaflets 3, lanceolate, subacute, with a few adpressed grey hairs on both sides; end one 1 1/2–2 in. long, rounded at the base; petiolule 3–4 lines; lateral ones not unequal-sided. Flowers 2–4 in an umbel at the tip of a slender, slightly hispid peduncle 2–3 in. long. Pedicels 1 line. Calyx 1 line, campanulate, slightly bristly; teeth deltoid as long as tube, lowest lanceolate. Corolla greenish, 1/4 in. Pod linear with a few adpressed bristles, not seen mature.
Distribution
Lower Guinea Mossamedes, Benguela, in sandy soil, Dr. Welwitsch!
