A low copiously branched shrub, with firm woody slender branches, densely clothed with grey pubescence. Stipules 1/4 in. long, lanceolate, scarious. Petioles 1/8 in. long; leaflets 3, the central one oblanceolate, 1 1/4–1 1/2 in. long by about 3/8 in. broad, acute or blunt; the petiolule 1/8 in. long, the lateral ones erecto-patent, slightly unequal-sided, subcoriaceous, upper surface grey-green, finely downy, lower softly grey-downy all over. Flowers in dense rounded heads an inch or more each way on firm short downy peduncles. Bracts lanceolate acuminate, grey-silky, 3/8– 1/2 in. long. Pedicels a line long. Calyx half an inch deep, finally membranous, clothed with spreading grey hairs, the teeth linear or lanceolate, densely ciliated, reaching three-quarters of the way down. Corolla yellow. Pod oblong, equalling the calyx, the valves finely downy.
Distribution
Lower Guinea Highlands of Golungo Alto, Dr. Welwitsch!Upper Guinea Aboh and lofty hills of the Yomba country, Barter!
