Shrubs or herbs to 3 m high; branches striate, incurved-puberulous or gla-brous. Leaves elliptic, elliptic-ovate, or oval, acute or acuminate apically, cuneate to cuneate-attenuate or obtuse basally, 6-13 cm long, 2.5-7 cm wide, usually glabrous, sometimes pubescent on both sides, the costa prominulous beneath with 4-6 pairs of conspicuous lateral veins; petioles 3-7 mm long, glabrous or pubes-cent. Racemes cylindric, somewhat dense, obtuse, slightly comose toward the apex, to 9 cm long, 8-18 mm wide; peduncles to 5.5 cm long, several or numer-ous, simple or branched, terminal or axillary, the axis to 16 cm long, pubescent; bracts lance-subulate, attenuate, ciliate, deciduous, 4.5-5 mm long. Flowers purple or blue; pedicels 1-2 mm long, pubescent; outer sepals ovate to oblong-ovate, obtuse, rarely acute, ciliate on the margins, sometimes short-pubescent or glabres-cent on the outside, the largest 2.5-3 mm long, sometimes concave, the smaller two 1.5-2.5 mm long; wings suborbicular to suborbicular-obovate, hooded, broadly rounded apically, rounded or rounded-cuneate basally, rarely ciliate on the margin, occasionally sparsely pubescent within, 3.5-5 mm long, 3-4.2 mm wide; keel orbicular, usually plicate laterally, emarginate apically, 4-7 mm long, 5-7.8 mm wide, rarely ciliate on the lower part of the margin, sparsely pubescent within or glabrous; upper petals yellow, spatulate, pubescent within, sparsely pubescent or glabrous on the outside, 3.8-5.4 mm long; staminal sheath pilose apically, the free part of the filaments 0.7-1.4 mm long; ovary ellipsoidal, 1.1-1.8 mm long, 0.9-1.1 mm wide, usually glabrous, rarely pubescent, the style usually geniculate, 2.3-3 mm long, the stigma 2-lobed, the outer acute, the inner tubercled. Drupe ovoid, obtuse or emarginate, conspicuously rugose-reticulate, glabrous, 5-8 mm long, 3.5-4.5 mm wide.
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