suffruticose, erect, thinly silky-villous, with appressed hairs; leaves on short petioles, pinnately trifoliolate; leaflets obovate-oblong, obtuse, often complicate, glabrous above, thinly pilose and netted beneath, concolourous; stipules lanceolate, acuminate, stipellæ setaceous; racemes terminal and axillary, very dense and short; pedicels crowded, 2–3 together, short; calyx densely piloso-barbate with yellow hairs; legumes deflexed, about 4-jointed, the joints subquadrate, pubescent, the intermediate constrictions shallow. 2–3 feet high, more ligneous than other S. African species. Petioles 1/2– 3/4 inch long; leaflets 1–1 1/4 inch long, 5–6 lines wide, the terminal largest. Racemes ovoid, shorter than the leaf, very dense, but not capitate; the pedicels 2–3 lines long. The yellow calycine hairs conspicuous. Legumes about an inch long, but little constricted between the joints.