procumbent, sub-dichotomous, silky-canescent; stipules oblong or lanceolate, small; leaflets obovate-oblong, silky-villous; flowers 2–5 together, sub-sessile; calyx deeply and sharply cut, its upper segments lanceolate, acuminate, the lowest setaceous; petals exserted, villous, the carina arched; legume oblong or oval, as long or twice as long as the calyx, turgid, sparsely puberulous. Root annual? stems prostrate, 2–4 inches long, the whole plant clothed with long and soft whitish hairs. Petioles 1/4– 1/2 inch long; leaflets about the same length. Flowers 2–3 lines long, the carina most prominent. In the S. African specimens the legumes are about as long as the calyx, but sometimes 1/3 longer; in those from Arabia and N. Africa, which are in other respects very similar, the legume is sometimes short as in the Cape individuals, and sometimes fully twice as long. The habit is very like that of L. clandestina, but the calyx segments are much longer and more tapering; the lowest is always very slender, but variable, being either as long as the rest, or very much shorter.
