flexuous, divaricately branched, glabrous and glaucous, spiniferous; leaves 3 or more from the axils of horizontal spines; common petiole semiterete, wingless, channelled, taper-pointed; leaflets opposite, very minute, oblong, acute; racemes axillary and terminal, laxly 6–10-flowered; pedicels bracteate at base; calyx puberulous; legumes linear-lanceolate, narrowed at base and apex, finely striate, 8-seeded, seeds oblong, obtuse, shining. A tall bush, called “Wilde Limoenhout” by the colonists. Branches pale yellowish, spreading subhorizontally, flexuous, tapering, the younger minutely downy. Leaves juncoid, the petiole 4–5 inches long; leaflets in 8–10 distant pairs, 1/2–1 line long, very narrow. Racemes 2–3 inches long, spreading; the peduncle rigid; pedicels 4–6 lines long. Calyx coloured, with a short downy tube and oblong, deciduous limb. Filaments hairy at base. Petals yellow. Legumes 4–5 inches long, 4–5 lines wide, contracted and compressed between the seeds.
