prostrate, subglabrous or minutely puberulous; leaves on longish petioles, leaflets ovate-orbicular or subrhomboid, acute or obtuse, resinous-dotted; stipules lanceolate; peduncles longer than the leaves, shortly and closely racemose near the summit; bracts narrow, deciduous; calyx pubescent, its segments lanceolate, longer than the tube, half as long as the glabrous or puberulent vexillum; ovary hirsute. Stems very numerous, 1–2 feet long, spreading every way, angular and striate, mostly downy. Stipules small. Petioles 3/4–1 inch long. Leaflets (except in β.) scarcely more than half inch across, as broad as long or broader, sometimes round-topped, more commonly acute, rigidly membranous, netted, mostly glabrous. Peduncles generally longer, sometimes 3–4 times longer than the leaves, the raceme about uncial, 6–8 flowered. Bracts caducous. Fl. 5 lines long. Vexillum glandular, often minutely downy, striped with brown, carina straw colour. Legume hairy.
