loosely silky; leaflets cuneate, minutely acuminate; heads dense, the narrow oblong bracts shorter than the very villous calyx; all the petals villous; the vexillum 1 1/2 as long as the alæ and carina; legume very villous. 1–2 feet high, virgate, afterwards ramulous, straight, canescent, with copious, long and softly silky whitish or fulvous hairs. Leaflets like those of B. holosericea, or smaller. Bracts much shorter than the calyx, or rarely taper-pointed and nearly as long. Calyx 2–2 1/2 lines long. Vexillum twice as long.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Caffirland, between the Buffel and Kei Rivers, Drege! (Hb. Bth., D., Hk.)