Japan Flora: Short-creeping, lanate, suffrutescent subshrub; stems 10-15 cm. long; leaflets oblong, acute, the stipules adnate to the base of the petioles, ovate, acnminate, 1-nerved, pubescent; racemes rather manyflowered, the bracts lanceolate, much longer than the pedicel; flowers about 2 cm. long; calyx tubulose with short teeth; legumes sessile, acute, nearly glabrous, ascending. Aug.