Japan Flora: Stems rather stout, erect, 25-30 cm. long, thinly puberulous or gla- brescent; stipules lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, acute to sub- obtuse, membranous, recurved above, pilose, the leaflets 7-15, oblong or elliptic, 2-3 cm. long, 7-13 mm. wide, retuse to rounded, glabrous above, pubescent beneath; racemes loosely 4ᅳ to 6-flowered, on peduncles about 10 cm. long, the bracts puberulous, twice as long as the pedicel; calyx obliquely campanulate, about 6 mm. long, white-pubescent, sparsely mixed with black hairs, the teeth very short; corolla about 2 cm. long, the standard oblong, emarginate, longer than the wing and the much shorter keel; legumes oblong, inflated, stipitate, glabrous, pendulous, shallowly grooved on the ventral side, about 2 cm. long. July. Grassy slopes in rocky places. 

Hokkaido (Mount Shari and Shiretoko Peninsula); very rare. Kuriles (Etorofu and Urupp).