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A virgately branching shrub; branches loosely and scat- 
teredly leaved, smooth, silkily furred, older ones with a 
dark brown bark, when flowerbearing beset like a spike on 
all sides by numerous very short and sometimes nearly ob- 
solete verticillately 4-leaved generally 2-flowered branchlets 
issuing from their proper buds. Leaves ternate, about an 
inch long, silkily furred underneath; leaflets elliptically ob- 
long, rather pointed, nearly of the same length as the 
petiole, with a small mucro or distinct sharp point; petiole 
silkily furred. Flowers yellow, oblong, about an inch and 
a quarter long, longer than the leaves parallelly paired: 
peduncles short, very thick. Calyx pale green, mem- 
branows, villous; twice shorter than the vexillum, tubu- 
larly oblong, slightly swollen, slightly compressed, very 
shallowly bilabiate; lips straight contracted, upper one ob- 
tuse notched, dower one ovate tapered tridenticulate. Vew- 
illum with a hardish cuneate folded unguis, of the length of 
the round lamina, which last is bent back at the sides and 
waved at the upper part of the margin: wings not much 
Shorter than this, oblong, obtuse, pressed closely to the 
sides of the keel, wrinkled at the edge: keel greenish, ob- 
longly falcate, as much shorter than the wings as these are 
shorter than the vexillum. Filaments monadelphous: an- 
thers deep yellow, oblong. Germen linear, compressed, 
silkily furred: style but little shorter than this, subulate, 
nearly smooth: stigma a blunt slightly pubescent point. 
