or without minute deciduous leaves at their bases. Leaves 
few, mainly in the lower part of the branches, sessile, 
spreading, linear, or linear-lanceolate, acute, from about 
a sixth to half an inch, bright green, hairy. Racemes 
terminal, rather dense, an inch to an inch and a half; 
bracts resembling the leaves, but narrower, somewhat 
shorter than the calyx; pedicels very short; bracteoles 
two, subulate, adpressed to the calyx, reaching to the 
mouth of the calyx-tube. Calyx turbinate-campanulate, 
one-sixth of an inch, minutely hairy; segments as long as 
the tube, subulate, straight. Corolla bright yellow, a third 
of an inch or more; standard broad-ovate ; shortly clawed, 
shorter than the keel; wings half the length of the keel; 
keel obtuse, silky-pubescent on the back. Ovary hairy. 
Pod spreading, globose-ovoid, shortly beaked, somewhat 
compressed, about half an inch, one-seeded.—Orvo Srapr. 
Fig. 1, calyx cut open; 2, stamens and pistil; 3, ovary in longitudinal 
section; 4, ovule:—al/ enlarged. 
