Japan Flora: Small shrub much-branched from the base; branches slender, glabrous; leaves 8-15 cm. long, short- petiolate; leaflets 9-13, thinly herbaceous, broadly ovate to elliptic, 1.5-2.5 cm. long, with scattered appressed medifixed hairs, sometimes nearly glabrous, glaucous beneath, mucro­nate; stipules and stipels short, subulate, caducous; racemes 5-10 cm. long, densely many-flowered, erect, the peduncles usually shorter than the raceme; flowers rose-colored, 12-15 mm. long, short-pedicelled; standard erect, oblong or elliptic, sometimes paler in color than the other petals, the wing and keels rather acute. May-June.

Kyushu (n. distr.); rare. Korea, Manchuria, and n. China.