Japan Flora: Woody climber; branches and leaves with rusty-brown re- trorsely appressed stinging hairs while young; leaves petiolate, the leaflets chartaceous, shortly caudate-acuminate, the termi­nal oblong, 8-11 cm. long, 4-5 cm. wide, obtuse at base, with very fine barely raised veinlets; racemes densely many-flow­ered, about 15 cm. long, pendulous, subsessile to short-pedun- cled, rusty-brown velvety and with scattered brown stinging hairs, the pedicels 1 니.5 cm. long, usually in 3’s at the nodes; flowers purple, with pale green standard, the wings dark purple, the keel 5-5.5 cm. long, cartilaginous, acute and white at apex, the remainder pale purple, paler toward base; legumes about 20 cm. long, 3 cm. wide, very shortly pilosulous, angled on each side near the margin, not winged, about 5-seeded. May.

Kyushu (Mageshima near Tanegashima); very rare. Ryukyus.