Perennial or annual herbs or shrubs; gland dotted and nearly always pubes-cent. Leaves alternate, imparipinnate, rarely paripinnate, trifoliate, or simple; leaflets relatively small, entire, conspicuously glandular dotted beneath, the rachis frequently margined or winged, glandular beneath; stipules herbaceous or gland-like; stipels usually represented by glands. Inflorescence of terminal or axillary spikes or racemes, often dense; bracts usually conspicuous, often glandular and pubescent. Flowers with the hypanthium campanulate or turbinate, 10-ribbed, often glandular, the glands and ribs sometimes obscured by pubescence; calyx teeth 5, more or less equal, as long as or longer than the cup; petals 5, white,