shrubby, erect, densely rufo-sericeous; branches virgate, leaves crowded, sessile or nearly so, trifoliolate, the leaflets lanceolate, acute or subpungent, complicate; stipules none; flowers 3 or 4 together, subsessile towards the ends of the branches; calyx silky, its 4 upper teeth very short, triangular, the lowest longer, subulate; petals glabrous, the vexillum narrow-obovate, the rest with long claws; legume rufo-sericeous. Erect, woody, branched from the base, the whole plant densely clothed with soft, silky, close-pressed, reddish hairs. Leaves closely set, imbricate; leaflets 1/2–1 inch long, 1–1 1/2 line wide, tapering to each end, when dry the leaves of the laminæ folded together. Flowers small, often crowded near the ends of the branches. Legume 3/4–1 inch long, 1 1/2 lines wide, linear, acute, many seeded. This has the foliage of one of the flat-leaved triphyllous Aspalathi; but the pod of a Lotononis.
