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ASPALATHUS CILIARIS. ClLIATED AsPALATHUS. 



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Class and Order. 



DlADELPHIA DeCANDRIA. 



Generic Character. 



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

 muticum, subdispermum. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



Aspalathus ciliaris; foliis ternatis fasciculatisque trigonis acu- 

 tis ciliatis, capitulis terminalibus, calycibus flores aequan- 

 tibus. 



Aspalathus ciliaris ; foliis fasciculatis scabris subpilosis, ca- 

 pitulis terminalibus. Thunb. Prodr. 127. Willd. Sp. 

 PL 3. p. 958. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 4. p. 263. 



Aspalathus ciliaris; foliis fasciculatis filiformibus scabris, 

 floribus terminalibus sessilibus, vexillis pubescentibus. 

 Lin. Mant. 262. 



The genus Aspalathus is very extensive, and very few of 

 the species have been as yet satisfactorily settled, the very 

 short specific phrases in Professor Thunberg's Prodromus 

 being quite insufficient to determine them by ; and the larger 

 work of which this was supposed to be the harbinger, after 

 having been expected for twenty years, must now we fear be 

 quite despaired of. 



Our figure was drawn by the late Mr. Sydenham Edwards 

 from a plant communicated by Messrs. Loddiges and Sons, 

 under the name of Aspalathus ciliaris, and is therefore the 

 same as the species so designated in the Hortus Kewensis, 

 where it is said to have been introduced by them. We are 

 sorry to find that both this species and A. chenopoda pub- 

 lished in our last number have now entirely perished. By 

 an oversight we omitted to add as a synonym of the last 

 mentioned species, Lodd. Bot. Cabinet. No. 316. 



