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ASPALATHUS CHENOPODA. GOOSE-FOOT 

 ASPALATHUS. 



Class and Order. 



DlADELPHIA DeCANDRIA. 



Generic Character. 



Cat. 5-fidus : lacinia superiore majore. Legumen ovatum, 

 muticum, subdispermum. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



Aspalathus Chenopoda; foliis fasciculatis subulatis strictis 

 mucronatis hispidis : interioribus brevioribus, floribus 

 capitatis hirsutissimis. Soland. Mss. apud Banks. 



Aspalathus Chenopoda; foliis fasciculatis subulatis mucro- 

 natis hirtis, floribus capitatis hirsutissimis. Sp. PL 1000. 

 Berg. Cap. p. 200. 



Aspalathus Chenopoda; foliis fasciculatis trigonis mucronatis 

 rigidis pilosis, capitulis hirsutis. Thunb. Prodr. 126. 

 Willd. Sp. PL 3. p. 954. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 4. p. 262. 



Cham^larix s. Chenopoda monomopatensis. Breyn. Cent, 

 p. 23. e. 11? 



Genista ericoides africana, flore luteo. Seb. Thes. 1. p. 39. 

 t. 24. / 4. 



Frutex Africanus Genistae aculeata? foliis recurvis summo 

 capite caesarie villoso. Pluk. Amalth. 101. t. 397. f. 6. 



Nepa capensis capitata foliis rigidis Ray Append. 246. n. 1 . 

 fide Solandri. 



A greenhouse shrub ; native of the Cape of Good-Hope. 

 Stem much branched: branchlets short, hairy, terminated 

 with a capitulum of flowers inclosed in an involucrum of hairy 

 "near mucronate leaves, much less rigid than those on the 

 8t em ; leaves subulate, thinly hairy, fasciculate, the outer ones 



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