Erect deciduous shrub, c. 90-120 cm tall, young shoots finely pubescent. Leaves 12.5-26.0 cm long; stipules triangular, acute, caducous. Leaflets 19-35, opposite or alternate, 1.2-2.5 cm long, ovate or elliptic, entire; obtuse or emargi¬nate, sparsely pilose on both sides. Axillary racemes, c. 5-10 cm long, flower c. 1.5-2.6 cm long, pedicel c. 7-10 mm; bract c. 2-3 mm, concave. Calyx 6-7 mm long, oblique, finely pilose. Ovary densely hairy. Pod 7.5-13.0 cm long, moniliform, 5-10 jointed, 4 winged, glabrous when mature.

Fl.Per.: April-September.

Type: ‘About hills in Deyra Doon, and about Sahunsadhara’, Royle (LIV); Isotype (K).

Distribution: Pakistan (N.W.F. Province); Kashmir.