branches and leaflets thinly cano-tomentose; stipular-spines mostly long, straight, subulate; pinnæ 8–19-jugate, with few, small jugal glands; leaflets very small, 18–24-jugate, closely imbricate, canescent; legume linear, falcate, thick, tomentose, spongy within, with distant seeds. A shrub 8–16 feet high, with soft, pale green foliage. Spines very slender, straight, spreading, Leaves looking to the eye as if simply pectinato-pinnate, 8–19-jugate; but really bipinnate, the pinnæ 18–24-jugate. Leaflets very minute, lying very close together, as if cohering. Heads globose, on long peduncles. Burchell.