shrubby; branches divaricate; leaves sessile, bifoliolate; leaflets obovate-rounded or elliptical, not cuneate at base, unequal-sided, fleshy; stipules minute, at length spinous; sepals oval or oblong-ovate; filaments thrice as long as the oblong, sub-recurved, lacero-ciliate scales; capsules oval-globose, apiculate, bluntly 5- angled. A greyish, sub-erect shrub, a foot or more in height; branches mostly alternate, curved, terete, with angular branchlets. Internodes 4–8 lines long. Leaflets mostly 3 lines long, 2–2 1/2 lines wide; some 4 lines, others not more than 2 lines long, rounded, rarely minutely pointed, quite entire. Peduncles twice, in fruit thrice as long as the leaf. Sepals 1 1/2 lines long, in fruit a little longer, reflexed. Petals obovate, 4–5 lines long, yellow, with a purple spot at base. Stamens half as long as the petals. Style subulate. Capsule 4–5 lines long, nearly as broad, obtuse, tipped with the base of the style, pentagonal with raised lines and scarcely impressed furrows.
