Leaves stiffened, loosely scattered, sometimes in nearly or 
quite opposite pairs, divaricate or sometimes deflex, petioled, 
narrow, linearly elongated, 2-3 inches long? about 2 lines 
broad? with a bluntish end mucronate from beneath, net- 
tedly veined, above darkly green quite smooth with a sunk 
midrib, underneath reddishly furred, midrib prominent; pe- 
tiole about a line long, round, tomentose. Flowers scentless, 
whitish violet, small (about 2 lines long), in panicles at the 
upper part of the branches; panicles leafy, elongated, spike- 
lets compound, leafy, three times shorter than the leaf or 
more, with a pair of stalked-flowers placed just above the 
base of the general peduncle: pedicles round, spreading, 
villous, little longer than the calyx, subtended by a linear 
shorter close-pressed bracte. Calyx cinereous, tomentose, 
bilabiately campanulate, smooth on the inside, 4-cleft 
nearly to the middle, eared at the base by two opposite 
bracteoles, upper lip straight, broad, retuse, lower 3-cleft 
with taper-pointed segments, the two side ones of which 
spread parallelly, the middle one being deflex and subu- 
late. Lamina of the vexillum (standard) reniformly orbi- 
cular, upright and reflex, about as long as the calyx, 
emarginately cleft, whitish, marked with evanescent 
violet radii, with a small greenish yellow spot at the 
base, unguis short, cuneately tapered, channelled, green; 
wings straight, pointing forwards, mutually lapping at 
their upper sides, oblong, obtuse, paler; unguis very 
slender, simple: keel enclosed, nearly twice shorter, fal- 
cately assurgent, ventricose, taper-pointed, obtuse, deep 
violet at the end. Filament monadelphous, 10-cléft nearly 
to the middle, cleft all the way along the back: anthers of 
a dingy yellow, upright, even, linearly oblong; pollen gru- 
mous. Germen ovately oblong, villous, green, sessile: style 
beakedly continuous with the germen, smooth, ascending, 
finely tapered: stigma an obtuse frosted point. 
