appressed-pubescent, ag are also the leaf rhachis and 
inflorescence. Leaves up to six inches long. with from 
eight to thirteen pairs of leaflets; leaflets elliptic-oblong 
or ovate-oblong, sharply apiculate, one to three-quarters of 
an inch long, one-eighth to one-third of an inch broad, 
glabrous on the upper surface, appressed-pubescent on 
the lower. Stipules deltoid, acuminate, up to one quarter 
of an inch long. facemes six inches to one foot long, 
bearing from nine to twenty-five flowers. Bracts and 
bracteoles subulate, the former about one-twelfth of an 
inch long. Calyx spathaceously split at the back, about 
one-quarter of an inch long, appressed-pubescent outside, 
the anticous tooth one-twelfth of an inch long cr less, the 
remaining ones more or less reduced. Standard suborbi- 
cular, retuse, rather over half an inch in diameter, the 
claw one-twelfth of an inch long. Wing-petals unequal, 
equalling or but little exceeding the calyx. Keel-petals 
two-thirds of an inch long, hardly one-quarter of an inch 
broad. Ovary more or less silky-pubescent, stipitate about 
one-quarter of an inch.—T. A. Sprague. 
Fig. 1, flower with petals removed ; 2, wing and keel-petals ; 3, pistil:—all 
enlarged. ; 
