suffruticose, thinly strigillose; stems short, subsimple, tufted, suberect, compressed and angular; leaves close, 1–2–4 jugate, short petioled; leaflets lanceolate-oblong or obovate, rigid, acute or mucronate, midribbed beneath, strigillose on the under or on both surfaces, the terminal subsessile; stipules setaceo-subulate; racemes on short peduncles, densely few or several flowered, scarcely longer than the leaves; calyx segments setaceo-subulate; petals cano-puberulous; legumes? Root thick and woody. Stems many from the crown, 6–8 inches long, simple or with one or two branches, rigidly strigillose and sometimes hispid, with more spreading bristles. Leaves crowded; the common petiole 6–7 lines long; the pairs of leaflets 1 1/2 line apart. Leaflets 4–5 lines long, varying much in breadth, open or complicate, dull green, rather rigid. Peduncles 1–1 1/2 inch long, somewhat hoary, as are also the flower buds. Stipules and calyx segments remarkably attenuate. Petals 3 lines long, purple-crimson. Legumes unknown.
