Cologania Kunth

Perennial herbs or vines; stems mostly slender, glabrate to pilose. Leaves 1-3-pinnate trifoliolate, leaflets ovate, oblong, or linear, mucronulate, pellucid, sti-pels subulate; stipules narrow, somewhat striate. Inforescences axillary, short racemes or solitary flowers, sometimes aggregated as few flowered panicles, sometimes the flowers clustered to appear umbellate; bracts and bracteoles per-sistent, the bracteoles 2, inserted below the calyx and mostly much shorter than the calyx; pedicels evident. Flowers violet, showy; calyx tubular, the upper 2 teeth at least partly connate, the lowest tooth longest, somewhat gibbous basally;