Japan Flora: Slightly pubescent with whitish medifixed hairs; stems terete, elongate, ascending above; leaves 20-25 cm. long, short-petioled, the stipules free, membranous, lanceolate-triangular, acuminate, 8-10 mm. long, the leaflets membranous, oblong, 15-25 mm. long, 7-10 mm. wide, rounded and retuse, nearly glabrous above; racemes about 1 cm. long, densely 10- to 20-flowered, on peduncles 2-4 cm. long, solitary in upper axils, the bracts lanceolate, nearly as long as the calyxï¼› calyx loosely white- pubescent, the teeth 1/2—2/3 as long as the tube, linear; corolla slender, yellowish white, about 13 mm. long, the keel rather short; legumes somewhat coriaceous, minutely appressed- pilose, abruptly acuminate, rounded and sessile at base, rather coriaceous. Near seashores.