tomentoso-pubescent; stipular-spines long or short, subulate or robust, at length white, straight, or subrecurved; pinnæ 4–8-jugate, with scutelliform glands and often a large petiolar gland; leaflets 10–20-jugate, oblong-linear, obtuse, green, glabrous or ciliate; peduncles axillary, bracteate in the middle; heads globose; legume flat, linear, moniliform, tomentose, at length glabrescent, coriaceous, pulpy within. The Natal specimens belong to Bentham's var. β. Kraussiana, and have generally long spines, and a deeply crenate, but scarcely moniliform, tomentose pod. The peduncles, besides the terminal head, have sometimes flowers at the medial bracts.