Descr. A low spineless bush, more or less hirsute with 
soft spreading hairs; branches leafy, erect or ascending. 
Leaves long-petioled, three-foliolate, leaflets three-quarters 
to one inch long, elliptic-oblong or ovate, rarely obovate, 
obtuse; petiole one inch long. J lowers clustered on the 
sides of the branches, two, three and four together, very 
shortly pedicelled, one to one and a half inches long, 
yellow. Calyx one-third to half an inch long, tubular and 
slightly inflated, hirsute, shortly two-lipped; upper lip 
two-fid, lower much shorter. Standard orbicular with a 
long claw, pale yellow externally, golden yellow in front 
and streaked with orange yellow, margins recurved. 
Wings small, not half the length of the standard, oblong, 
obtuse; keel smaller still. Stamens united in a tube as 
long as the calyx-tube; free portions of the filaments very 
short; anthers minute. Ovary hairy; style slender, 
glabrous, stigma capitellate; ovules very numerous. Pod 
one to one and a half inches long by one-third of an inch 
wide, curved, flat, acute or acuminate, laxly clothed with 
very long hairs along the ventral suture. Seeds very 
small.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Longitudinal section of calyx, staminal tube and ovary; 2, calyx; 3 
» Lon; , staminal tube. ry 5 2, calyx; 3, 
standard ; 4, wings; 5, keel; 6, stamens; 7, pistil; 8, stigma :—al/ enlarged. 
