from 4 to 6 inches long, silky; leaflets 5, 6, 7, lanceolate, 
acuminate to the base, an inch or an inch and half long, 
silky on each .side, with long white hairs, often becoming 
nearly smooth on the upper surface when old; stipules 
subulate, faleate. Stem round, silky, when in Jlower one 
or two-leaved, erect, about a span high; when in fruié 
longer and weaker, with more leaves. lowers in an erect 
raceme, which is nearly cylindrical, and from 3 to 4 inches 
long, alternate, without bracteol, or at least with nothing 
more than a fine subulate process, which is sometimes 
present. Bractee subulate, villous, the length of the 
calyx. Calyx densely silky. Vevillum purplish blue inside, 
with a white spot at the base, outside paler; a/e oblong, 
ascending, purplish blue; carina abruptly falcate, dark 
purple at the apex, woolly on the upper edge. Seeds 
small, white. 
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