subglabrous, the reddish-brown twigs, petioles, and peduncles minutely puberulous; prickles in pairs below the nodes, recurved, or none; pinnæ 8–14-pair, the unarmed petiole with a gland; leaflets 15–30-jugate, narrow-linear, glabrous or nearly so; calyx rather shorter than the corolla; legume linear, flat, bivalve. Spines small and often absent. Leaves 4–6 inches long, the pinnæ 2 1/2 inches long; pinnules 4 lines long, 1/2 line wide, paler beneath. Spikes often 3–4 inches long. Legume 3–3 1/2 inches long, 3–4 lines wide, 6–8-seeded, often irregularly sinuous at the margin.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Eastern districts, from Uitenhage to Port Natal, common. (Hb. Hk., D., Sd.)
Notes
A. multijuga, Meisn. inHook. Lond. Journ. 2, p. 105, seems from the de-description to be referable to this.
