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ASPALATHUS ARANEOSA. HAIRY 

 ASPALATHUS. 



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Oafs and Order. 



DlADELPHIA DeCANDRIA. 



Generic Character. 



Cal. 5-fidus : lacinia fuperiore majorc. Legumen ovatum, 

 ma£licum, fubdifpermum. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



ASPALATHUS araneofa ; foliis fafciculatis filiformibus laxis 

 pilofis, capitulis hirfutis. Tbunb. Prod. 126. 

 IVilld. Spec. PL 3. p. 962. 



ASPALATHUS araneofa; foliis fafciculatis fetaceis inermibus 

 hifpidis, floribus capitatis. 



GENISTA ^Etbiopica flore flavo, foliolis inflexis et araneofa 

 lanugine fimbriatis, fummo ramulo circa 

 flores glomeratis. Pink. Mant. 87. /. 4*4* 

 /. 4. Seb. The/. 1. p. 38. /. 23. /. 6. 



Descr. Stem fhrubby with pendulous woolly branches. 

 Leaves filiform, befct with long white hairs, from three to nine, 

 collected in alternate fafcicles, which are woolly at the bafe. 

 Flowers bluifh white, terminal, collected in a capitulum, nearly 

 feflile, intermixed with braftes like the leaves, three to each 

 flower, the length of the calyx. Calyx of one leaf five-toothed : 

 teeth long, awl-fhaped, befet with very long white filky hairs, 

 and are equal in fize, in which refpe£t they do not correfpond 

 with the generic character. Vexillum for the moft part ftraight, 

 connivent, longer than the alae which enclofe the carina: all 

 thefe parts are hairy or villous on the outfide. The flowers 

 when dried appear yellow, which probably mifled Plukenet 

 and Seb a, who never faw the plant in a living ftate, if their 

 plant be indeed the fame with ours. 



This elegant fhrub is a native of the Cape of Good Hope, 

 and requires a greenhoufe to proteft it from froft. Our draw- 

 ing was taken in June 1804, at George Hibbert's, Efq. at 

 Clapham-Common. 



