quite glabrous, slender; stem suberect at base, filiform and twining upwards; leaflets linear-lanceolate or lanceolate, expanded, rigid, netted-veined, and margined; peduncles filiform, flexuous, scarcely exceeding the short petiole, 2–4-flowered; calyx-lobes deltoid, half as long as the tube; legumes falcate, acute at base, 4–6-seeded, blunt; style slender, subterete, with an encircling tuft of hairs below the extremity. Very like D. angustifolius, and only to be accurately distinguished by the style, and the broader and more obtuse legumes. The leaflets are generally, but not always, expanded, not complicate, 2–3 inches long, 2–4 lines wide; those of the lower leaves are often broadly lanceolate, 1–1 1/2 inch long, 3–4 lines wide. Flowers as in D. angustifolius. In var. β. leaves of the ordinary form occur on the same stem as the 5-foliolate ones, especially on Burke and Zeyher's specimens from Orange River.
