Podalyria.| LEGUMINOS& (Harv.) 13 
racifolia, Bot. Mag. t. 1580. DO. Prod. 2. p. 102. E. § Z. 1160 ; also 
P. myrtillifolia, E.& Z. 1161. 
Flas. Mountains of the western districts, common: Table Mt., Muysenberg ; 
Howhoeksberg and Zwarteberg, &c. £. § Z. and others. (Herb. D., Hk., Bth. Sd.) 
—& tall, strong growing, much-branched, erect shrub, 3-6 feet high. Leaves t-1} 
inch long, f-1 ich broad, green on both surfaces, the pubescence very short and 
thinly set : in no part rufous, except on the peduncle and calyx. Peduncle 1-14 
inches long, 1 rarely 2-flowered. Pods thinly villous with whitish hairs. Known 
from all others by its calyptrform bracts. 
4. SERICEZ (Sp. 13-17.) 
18. P. myrtillifolia (Willd. Sp. 2. p. 505); branches pubescent ; 
leaves elliptical or obovate, rarely sub-orbicular, thickish, thinly seri- 
ceous above, more densely sericeo-pubescent beneath, the younger leaves 
veinless, the older netted-veined beneath; peduncles 1-2 flowered, 
shorter, or scarcely longer than the leaf; calyx rufo-villous, its lobes 
cultrate, acute, longer than the tube, but shorter than the carina. 
Benth. Lond. Journ. 2. p. 439. P. busifolia, E. & Z.! No. 1163. non 
Willd. 
Var. B. parvifolia; leaves small (4 lines long), ovate or elliptic-ovate, acute, 
silky on both sides, rufo-sericeous on the lower ; peduncles 1 fl., equalling leaves. 
E. Mey. com. Drege. p. 8. (not P. parvifolia, E. Mey. in Linn.) 
Has. Tigerberg and Klein Drakensteinberg, Drege. Near Caledon Baths, E. § Z./ 
Dr. Prior! River Zonderende, Zeyher, 2273, 2277. (Herb. Bth., Sd. Hk.) 
A variable species, less silky than others of this section, and approaching P. Bur- 
chelli in many res' The pubescence is very variable ; on some of Eck. & Zey- 
specimens the under surfaces of the leaves are nearly as bare as in P. calyptrata. 
14. P. argentea (Salisb. Par. Lond. t. 7. non E. & Z.); branches 
pubescent ; leaves ovate, elliptical, obovate, oblong or lanceolate, ob- 
tuse or acute, silky on both surfaces, especially the under side ; pedun- 
cles much longer than the leaves, 1-2 flowered ; calyces shaggy with 
curled, red-brown, coarse hairs, the segments deltoid, shorter than the 
tube or about equal to it DC. Prod. 2. p. 102. P. biflora Sims. Bot. 
Mag. t. 753. E. M. Com. p. 6. P. subliflora, Benth. Lond. Journ. 2. 
p, 439. P. liparioides, P. angustifolia, and P. cuneifolia, (pro parte ) 
E. & Z. 11170, 1171, 1156. 
Has. Hills round Capetown and Simon’s Bay, common. Hott. Holland, F#. § Z.! 
&e. (Herb. Hk., Bth., Sd., D.) 
Suberect or decumbent, 1-2 feet high, subsimple or much branched. Pubescence 
satiny, often fulvous or rust coloured. The long peduncles, and very roughly hairy 
calyces, with short and broad lobes sufficiently mark this species. The calyx lobes 
vary in length, and, though generally shorter than the tube, sometimes a little ex- 
ceed it ; their shape and pubescence are more constant. 
15. P. biflora (Lam. Illustr. t. 327. f. 3); branches pubescent ; leaves 
ovate, obovate, oblong, or suborbicular, obtuse, silky on both surfaces ; 
peduncles much longer than the leaves, two flowered ; calyx silky, its seg- 
ments cultrate, acute, longer than the tube, but shorter than the carina. 
Benth. lc. p. 439. P.liparioides, DC. Prod. 2. p. 102. P. myrtillifolia B. 
liparioides, E. M. Com. p.8. P.argentea and P. pedunculata. E.§Z.1 No. 
1168, 1169. P. subbiflora ? and P. racemulosa? DC. Prod.l.c 
"Han. Cape district, Sicher, Burchell, E. ¢ Z.1 Kl. Drakenstein and Paarl, Drege. 
Near the waterfall, Tulbagh, 2. § Z./ (Herb. D., Hk., Bth., Sd.) ~ * 
