Descr. A shrub two to three feet high, everywhere covered 
with a soft grey-green tomentum. Stem and branches stout, 
terete. Leaves apparently simple, but really one-foliolate ; 
petiole half to one and a half inches long, . jointed above the 
middle; stipules subulate, caducous; leaflet two to three 
inches long, oblong or ovate-oblong, obtuse at both ends. 
Racemes \ateral on the branches, terminating short branchlets, 
short or long, one to six inches long, very stout, erect, few or 
many flowered; bracts subulate, deciduous. Yowers shortly 
pedicelled, one anda quarter inch long. Calyz, pale blue- 
green, tube hemispherical; lobes five, subulate, subequal. 
Corolla yellow-green, with purple veins on the ovate, long- 
acuminate reflexed standard. Wings oblong, obtuse. Keel 
as long as the standard; shortly clawed, ovate below, with 
a long narrowed beak. Stamens all united below; filaments 
very long and slender. Pod one and a half inch long, in- 
flated, subulate, tomentose.—/. D. H. 
Fig. 1. Flower with the corolla removed; 2, standard; 3, keel; 4, wing: 
5, pod :—all but f. 5 magnified. 
