3608.000 Virgilia Poir.

Small trees with a narrow or spreading crown. Leaves very variable, imparipinnate, leaflets with up to 23 paired pinnae, subsessile, narrow. Stipules linear, acuminate. Flowers pink to rose-violet, violet-purple or rarely white in axillary or sub-terminal racemes; bracts small. Calyx 2-lipped, tomentose; tube basin-shaped, somewhat compressed laterally; upper lip 2-toothed, lower lip 3-toothed, both longer than the tube. Petals upper strongly reflexed, wings falcate, clawed; keel somewhat shorter than wings, incurved, beaked, with 2 petals, clawed. Fruit a pod, dehiscent, sometimes only along upper suture, 2-valved. Seeds elliptic, yellow-brown to black.

Worldwide: 2 species limited to moist sites along the Cape coastal region of South Africa.

Zimbabwe: 1 cultivated taxon.