from 4 to 6 inches long, silky ; leaflets 5, 6, 7, lanceolate. 



acuminate 



the base 



inch 



or 



an inch and half long, 

 silky on each side, with long white hairs, often becoming 



rly smooth on the upper surface when old 

 subulate, falcate. Siem round, silky, when in Jl 



stip 



two-leaved, erect, about a span high ; when in fruit 



longer and weaker, with more 



Flowers 



raceme, which is nearly cylindrical, and from 3 to 4 inches 

 long, alternate, without bracteolae, or at least with nothing 

 more than a fine subulate process, which is sometimes 

 present. Bractece subulate, villous, the length of the 

 calyx. Call/a^ densely silky. Vexillum purplish blue inside, 

 with a white, spot at the base, outside paler ; ala oblong, 

 ascending, purplish blue ; carina abruptly falcate, dark 



J . Seeds 



purpl 



small, white 



at the apex, woolly on the upper edg 



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