M. De Candolle ascribes a silky, ciliated carina to the 
flowers of his. species: in our specimens it is perfectly 
smooth. 
Stems erect, slender, pale green, pilose. Leaves un- 
equally pinnated ; the leaflets in from 2 to 5 pairs, subulate- 
linear, downy, often very much divaricate; the petiole 
villous; the stipules very slender, erect, bristle-shaped. 
Flowers small, terminal, sessile, growing 2 or 3 together. 
Calyx deep olive brown, 5-parted, nearly equal, pubescent. 
Corolla with the vexillum yellow within, olive green with- 
out; the wings yellow ; the keel yellow, and quite smooth. 
Pod the size of a large pea, inflated, twice as long as the 
calyx. 
3. L. 
