A shrub 4–5 yards high; branchlets shortly pubescent. Leaves 3–5-foliolate, moderately firm, green and glabrous on both surfaces; leaflets 3–5, sessile, oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, entire, narrowed to the base, 3–4 in. long, 1 in. broad at the middle; petiole 1 1/2–2 in. long. Cymes laxly disposed on the branches of an ample panicle; branchlets clothed with short whitish pubescence; bracts lanceolate, minute. Calyx campanulate, 1/16 in. long and broad at flowering, canescent; teeth 5, minute. Corolla lilac, densely pubescent, 1/4 in. long; tube funnel-shaped; lobes very small.