Climbing or scrambling almost certainly perennial herb, at least 0·5 m. long and doubtless considerably longer.. Stems somewhat ridged, covered with a dense velvety indumentum of mixed long and short hairs but not glandular.. Leaflets 3, paler beneath, the terminal rhomboid, the laterals obliquely ovate, 2·5–5 cm. long, 2–4 cm. wide, bluntly acute at the apex, narrowed to a shortly rounded or truncate base, adpressed pubescent above, densely velvety beneath, particularly on the venation, but not so much as to obscure the leaf-surf ace entirely, the smaller veinlets and the small rather sparse gland-dots being visible; petiole 1·5–3 cm. long; rhachis ± 8 mm. long; petiolules 1·5–2·5 mm. long; stipules ovate-oblong, 4–7 mm. long, 2·5 mm. wide, reflexed to reveal the glabrous inner side, veined, hairy outside.. Inflorescence fairly dense; rhachis 7–10 cm. long, usually with a lateral branch; peduncle 4–7 cm. long; pedicels short, ± 2 mm. long; bracts soon deciduous, 6–7 mm. long, 3 mm. wide, hairy.. Calyx velvety pubescent, the gland-dots scarcely visible beneath; tube 3·5–4 mm. long; lowest lobe conspicuously the longest, linear-lanceolate, 0·8–1·2 cm. long, ± 2·5 mm. wide; lateral lobes linear-triangular, 5–6 mm. long, 1·5 mm. wide; upper pair of lobes joined for ± half their length.. Standard colour not known, probably yellow with red veins, shape not known, ± 1·5 cm. long, densely pubescent.. Young pods oblong, 2–3 cm. long, 8 mm. wide, aristate, densely covered with short hairs and with long straw-coloured or whitish hairs 2–3 mm. long, but not glandular.
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