Podalyria. | LEGUMINOS (Harv.) 11 
thinly sprinkled with hairs, the older glabrous and shining, the under surface densely 
shaggy with dark, reddish-brown hairs. When dry the upper surfaces of the leaves 
are frequently reticulated, from a shrinking of the parenchyma. 
5. P. reticulata (Harv.) ; leaves glabrous and shining above, ap- 
pressedly pubescent, with prominent midrib and netted veins beneath, 
orbicular or obovate, very obtuse; peduncles 2-flowered, as long as the 
leaves or shorter; calyces rufo-sericeous, the lateral segments cultrate, 
acute, as long as the carina. Zey. No. 2269. 
Has. On the Zwarteberg, Caledon, Zeyher, Pappe 40. (Herb. D., Hk., Sd.) 
Branched from below, the branches virgate, 1-2 feet long, thinly pubescent. 
Leaves about 3 inch long, and nearly as broad, the young ones sprinkled with a few 
deciduous, short hairs, the older quite glabrous and shining above, and obviously 
reticulated below, green or fulvous. Calyces appressedly pubescent, rusty-brown. 
Peduncles mostly shorter than the leaves, 1-2 flowered. Known from others of this 
section by the netted venation of the leaves. 
6. P. microphylla (E. Mey. in Linn. vol. 7. p. 147); leaves (very 
small) obovate, mucronulate, glabrous above, appressedly silky beneath, 
veinless; peduncles much longer than the leaves, minutely-silky, one- 
flowered ; calyx rufo-sericeous, its segments deltoid, acute, shorter than 
the tube and much shorter than the carina. JE. § Z./ En. No, 1174. 
Haz. Among shrubs on the Tigerberge and Paardeberge, Stellenbosch. Eck. ¢ 
Zey.! Pappe 48. (Herb. Sd., D.) 
A. woody, divaricately, much-branched shrub, the branches and twigs minutely 
silky, with close-pressed, very short hairs. Leaves about 4 inch long, 2 lines broad, 
with a recurved point, thickish, midribbed below, but veinless. Peduncles 1-1} 
inches long, with close-pressed minute pubescence. Pubescence of the calyx very 
short and close-pressed. 
2. VILLOSZ (Sp. 7-11.) 
”%. P. cordata (R. Br. Hort. Kew. 2. vol. 3. p. 8); thickly willoso- - 
tomentose in all parts; leaves orbicular or broadly ovate, rounded or 
cordate at base, densely woolly on both surfaces; peduncles shorter than 
the leaves; calyces very shaggy, with reddish-brown hairs, their lobes 
broadly cultrate, nearly as long as the keel. Benth. in Lond. Journ. 2. 
p. 437. DC. Prod. 2. p. 102. £. & Z. En. No. 1151, pro pte. Zey. 2264. 
P. hirsuta, Willd.? Sp. 2. p. 505. 
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of toitskloof, / 08. €. p) . 
aoe bush, 2~3 feet hich rea sade shaggy with reddish brown or ful- 
vous shining pubescence; feeling like coarse cloth to the touch. Leaves seldom 
more than 1-1} inch long, often shorter, varying from circular, through elliptical, 
to oblong and ovate ; very obtuse or subacute ; the veins generally concealed beneath 
the thick pile of hairs, in old leaves somewhat apparent. Peduncles 4-4 inch long, 
shaggy. Flowers purple. 
8. P. canescens (E. Mey.! Comm. p. 9, not of E. & Z. 1177); branches 
hairy or tomentose; leaves orbicular, broadly ovate or sub-ovate, ap- 
pressedly pubescent above, reticulately veined and shortly tomentose — 
beneath; peduncles 1-3 flowered, shorter or scarcely longer than: the ae 
leaves; calyces rufo-velvetty, their lobes broadly cultrate, scarcely 
long as the keel. Benth. l. c. p. 437. P. Thunbergiana, P. amo 
P. intermedia, and P. Meyeriana, BE. & Z. 1152-55! Zey. 2266! 
Has. M in sides in the districts of and Swellendam, f 
B.g2.! omar ghee Fg WAH, ve. Hott. Holl, Mts. French J 
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