An erect annual reaching 1 1/2–2 ft. high with numerous ascending finely grey-downy branches. Stipules 0. Petioles 2–3 lines. Leaflets 3, oblanceolate, 6–9 lines long, subglabrous, green, blunt with a mucro. Flowers in dense sessile terminal racemes up to 30–40 on the main stem. Bracts linear, minute. Pedicels 1–1 1/2 line. Calyx 1 line deep, densely brown-silky, the lanceolate teeth reaching more than halfway down. Corolla bright yellow, twice the calyx, the standard densely brown-silky on the back. Pod sessile, roundish, densely silky, 2 lines long, 2–4-seeded.
Distribution
Mozambique Mozamb. Dist. Dr. Peters!Abyssinia Nile Land Schimper!Nile Land Mininga, Speke and Grant!
Notes
Closely allied to the Cape C. globifera, but smaller in all its parts with densely silky, usually 2-seeded pods.