Crotalaria miranda Milne-redh.

Erect annual, up to 7 dm. tall, with laxly inserted ascending branches.. Stem obscurely ribbed, appressed puberulous with colourless hairs having a brown point of attachment a little above the base.. Leaves simple; blade linear-lanceolate to oblong-elliptic, up to 45–90 mm. long, 3–11 mm. wide, subacute to rounded at the apex, glabrous or more generally appressed puberulous above, thinly appressed puberulous with submedifixed hairs beneath; petiole 1–3 mm. long.. Stipules linear-subulate, 1–2 mm. long.. Racemes lax, up to 7–20 cm. long, ± (4–)8–20(–26)-flowered; bracts linear, 1–4 mm. long; bracteoles adnate to the calyx, linear, 1–2·5 mm. long.. Calyx 5–7 mm. long, protracted on the lower side, rather closely appressed puberulous with hairs like those of the stem; upper lobes narrowly attenuate triangular, considerably longer than the tube.. Standard obovate, yellow, veined red or orange, puberulous apically outside; wings shorter than the keel; keel bent at right-angles in the lower third, with a long straight twisted beak, 11–13 mm. long.. Pod oblong-clavate, narrowed basally into 2–4 mm. long stipe, ± 22–28 mm. long, 6 mm. across, appressed puberulous, ± 22–26-seeded.. Seeds oblique-cordiform, up to 2·5 mm. long, smooth, greyish or brownish-green.