Aeschynomene venulosa Verdc.

Spreading or suberect subshrub or woody herb ± 40 cm. tall.. Stems glabrous or even slightly glaucous when young, the bark soon peeling off in thin longitudinal strips.. Leaves 4-foliolate; leaflets obovate, obovate-falcate or almost semicircular, 0.5–1.2 cm. long, 3–9 mm. wide, rounded and sometimes very obliquely mucronulate at the apex, the lower pair of leaflets slightly subcordate at the base, the upper pair attached to the rhachis very obliquely, glabrous; venation conspicuously raised and reticulate on both surfaces; petiole and rhachis together 1–1.8 cm. long including the terminally produced bristle, with a few bristly hairs on the lower surface; petiolules ± 0.5 mm. long; stipules broadly elliptic or almost round, 0.4–1.8 cm. long, 0.25–1.2 cm. wide, very rounded at the apex, conspicuously obtusely appendaged on one side at the base, glabrous, at length deciduous.. Inflorescences axillary, 10–15-flowered, fairly lax; rhachis 1.5–6 cm. long; peduncle ± 0.5–1.5 cm. long; pedicels 1.7–4.8 mm. long; bracts oblong, 2–6.5 mm. long, 1.8–4 mm. wide, divided almost half-way or completely into 2 rather obtuse lobes, soon falling, nervose, glabrous; bracteoles lanceolate, 3–3.5 mm. long, 0.7 mm. wide, acuminate, falling in fruit.. Calyx glabrous or with very few bristly hairs, 2-lipped, the lips elliptic or oblong, 3.5–5.5 mm. long, 2–3 mm. wide, one obtuse, the other divided into 3 acute lanceolate teeth.. Standard yellow, violin-shaped, 6–7.8 mm. long, 3–6 mm. wide; wings and keel-petals yellow, the latter not laciniate.. Pod of 1 or 2 articles joined by a very narrow neck, kettledrum-shaped, flat, 4.5–5.5 mm. long, 4–4.5 mm. wide, glabrous or with very few hairs on the margins, reticulate.. Seeds not seen.