Rhynchosia villosa (Meisn.) Druce

Prostrate, softly villous; stem 3-4-angled; leaves subsessile; leaflets cordate-ovate or suborbicular, rugose, thick, velvetty; stipules broadly-triangular, acute; peduncles elongate, densely racemose beyond the middle; bracts lanceolate; calyx villous, its segments longer than the tube, half as long as the glabrous vexillum; legume falcate, hairy. Stems robust. 2 or more feet long, sharply angled and softly hairy. Common petiole uncial, the lateral leaflets near its base, the terminal remote. Terminal leaflet 2-3 inches long, 2-24 broad, the lateral smaller and unequal sided, the young ones lanigerous and glossy, the older more velvetty-villous and green. Stipules 4-5 lines long, 2-3 broad at base, acute. Peduncles 6 inches long. Bracts narrow, 3-4 lines long, deciduous. Flowers deflexed, subsessile, 5-6 lines long. Calyx-segments narrow, the two upper connate nearly to the point. Vexillum broad, 2-callous over the claw. Alae narrow. Legume 10-12 lines long, 3-4 broad, sessile, obtuse, hairy.