Japan Flora: Deciduous shrub with spread­ing branches; branchlets slightly pubescent; leaves petioled, 15-20 cm. long, the leaflets 11-15, somewhat coriaceous, ob­long or elliptic, 2-4 cm. long, subacute at both ends, short appressed-pubescent beneath or on both surfaces, glaucescent beneath; infloresceiwe of 1-4 racemes, 5-12 cm. long, rather densely many-flowered, densely brown-puberulent, the bracts lanceolate, small; flowers short-pedicelled, pale yellow; calyx yellowish brown villous, the teeth deltoid, short; legumes loosely short-pnbescent, 10-12 mm. wide, 1- to 3-seeded, with a narrow wing on the outer suture. July-Aug. Wet places near seashores.

Kyushu. Ryukyus and Formosa.