ascending hairs up to 0.4-0.5 mm. long, greenish- 

 cinereous to silvery-gray, the leaflets sometimes 

 medially glabrescent above, the inflorescence 

 black-hairy; stems of the season largely 

 subterranean, the aerial tips prostrate or weakly 

 ascending, 0.5-6 (14) cm, long, the internodes all 

 short, or a few of them developed and up to 1.5 

 (4) cm. long, mostly shorter; stipules 2-5 mm. 

 long, submembranous , purplish, glabrous dorsally, 

 the lowest becoming pallid and scarious, all 

 amplexicaul and connate through + half their 

 length, the free blades deltoid or lanceolate, 

 obtuse or subacute; leaves 1.5-7 cm. long, 

 petioled, with (9) 17-25 ovate, ovate-oblong, or 

 elliptic, obtuse, mostly crowded, folded or 

 involute leaflets 2-10 mm. long; peduncles at 

 anthesis incurved-ascending, procumbent in fruit, 

 1-3 (6.5) cm. long; racemes loosely 3-6 flowered, 

 the flowers loosely ascending, the axis scarcely 

 elongating, 3-10 (15) mm. long in fruit; bracts 

 membranous, lanceolate, ovate-acuminate, 2.5-5 mm. 

 long; pedicels at anthesis 0.5-1.5 mm. long, in 

 fruit either straight or arched outward, 1-2 mm. 

 long; bracteoles 0-2, minute when present; calyx 

 5.2-7 mm. long, densely black-strigulose , the 

 oblique disc 0.5-0.8 mm. deep, the campanulate 

 tube 3-4.2 mm. long, 2.7-3.2 mm. in diameter, the 

 broadly subulate teeth 2-3 mm. long; petals pink- 

 purple, dull lilac, or whitish with banner veined 

 and distally suffused with lilac, the keel-tip 

 always maculate; banner recurved through + 45 

 degrees, ovate-cuneate, notched, 10.7-12.5 mm. 

 long, 5.2-7.2 mm. wide; wings 9.3-10.9 mm. long, 

 the claws 3.3-4.4 mm., th4 oblong-obovate , obtuse, 

 slightly incurved blades 6.6-8 mm. long, 2.5-2.7 

 mm, wide; keel 8.8-9.7 mm. long, the claws 3.8-4.7 

 mm., the broadly lunate blades 5.3-5.7 mm. long, 

 2.3-2.8 mm. wide, incurved through 90-100 degrees 

 to the bluntly triangular apex; anthers 0.45-0.6 

 mm. long; pod ascending (humistrate) , sessile or 

 nearly so, obliquely ovoid or ovoid-ellipsoid, a 

 trifle incurved, 7-11 mm. long, +3.5 mm. in 

 diameter, rounded at base, abruptly deltoid-beaked 

 and cuspidate at apex, subtriquetrously compressed 

 with acute ventral and rounded lateral angles, 

 flattened or somewhat depressed dorsally but 

 hardly sulcate, the prominent ventral suture 

 either straight or a trifle concave in profile, 

 the thin submembranous, densely black- or more 

 rarely partly white-strigulose valves not 

 inflexed; dehiscence not seen; seeds (not seen 



