Deser.—A bush, or small tree, with spreading, hispid 
branches drooping at the tips. Leaves shortly petioled, 
six to twelve inches long, impari-pinnate, quite glabrous 
when mature ; leaflets in fifteen to twenty-one pairs, about 
an inch long, elliptic, obtuse with a terminal mucro, pale 
green, young puberulous above and pubescent beneath, 
membranous, rhachis very slender, glabrous; stipules at 
length spinescent, a quarter to half an inch long, straight, 
or sub-recurved. tacemes shorter than the leaves, shortly 
peduncled ; peduncles and rhachis hispid ; flowers crowded, 
about an inch across; bracts lanceolate, membranous, 
caducous; pedicels short. Calyx-tube rounded at the base, 
hispid; lobes sub-equal, triangular-lanceolate, acute, ciliate 
with gland-tipped hairs. Corolla pale rose-pink. Pod 
three to four inches long, by half an inch broad, nearly 
straight, linear, obtuse, narrowly winged; valves thickly 
clothed with gland-tipped hairs and rigid bristles. Seeds 
oblong.—J, D. IT. 
Fig. 1, calyx laid open and ovary; 2, stamens and style, both enlarged; 
3, pod of the natural size; 4, poition of the same enlarged. 
