Japan Flora: Shrub with elongate branches, minutely appressed-pilose while young; leaflets rather thick, ovate to elliptic, 2-5 cm. long, 1-3 cm. wide, glabrous on upper side from the first, sparsely appressed-pilose beneath; racemes longer or shorter than the leaves; flowers 10-15 mm. long, rose-purple, the bracts and bracteoles nar­rowly ovate, minute, acute; legumes broadly obovate, about 8 mm. long, 5-6 mm. wide, appressed-pilose. Aug.-Oct. Grassy places and thickets.

Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu; com­mon