suffruticose, erect or diffuse, variably pubescent or glabrescent; leaves 10–40- jugate, with a larger or smaller petiolar gland below the lowest pair; leaflets very oblique or dimidiate, linear-falcate, mucronulate, rigid, obliquely striate beneath; stipules from a semi-cordate base, subulate, striate; peduncles axillary, 1–3 together, 1-flowered, longer or shorter; sepals ovate, acute or acuminate, villous, equalling or nearly equalling the petals; legumes linear, oblique at base, plano-compressed, with thicker sutures, pubescent or glabrescent, 10–25-seeded. A common tropical and subtropical weed, which has received at least a score of names in different countries. The pubescence, number of leaflets, size and shape of petiolar-gland, length of peduncle, and size of flower, are very variable, but I find it impossible strictly to limit the variations, and all the S. African varieties inhabit the same districts, and probably often grow intermixed.
