Liparia.] LEGUMINOSZ (Harv.) 15 
Has. Mountains round Capetown and Simonsbay ; Muysenberg, &c. Thunberg, Cabtlisedin 
E. & Z., Drege, Wright (550), Pappe, fc. fc. (Herb. Th., Bth., Hk., D., Sd.) 
A rigid shrub 2-6 feet high or more, perfectly glabrous in all parts except on the 
icels and. along the edges of the smaller calyx-lobes. Leaves 14-1} inch long, 
2-4 inch wide, closely imbricating, sessile, varying from lanceolate to oblong, taper- 
ing into a hard sharp point. Flowers in dense, nodding-heads, 3-4 inches in diame- 
ter ; each flower on a short villous pedicel, in the axil of a large leafy bract, thinner, 
softer, and paler than the leaves, but of similar shape ; pedicels about a } inch long, 
softly hairy. Lower segment of the calyx obovate-oblong, acute, quite glabrous, 
twice as long as the narrow-subulate, woolly. sd upper segments. Flowers bright 
yellow or orange. 
2. L. comantha (Eck. & Zey. En. No. 1216); branches thinly wil- 
lous, soon becoming glabrous ; leaves-imbricated, narrow-oblong, acute, 
pungent, 3-5-7 nerved ; bracts fringed with hairs ; calyx hairy ex- 
ternally, all the segments fringed, the lowest, which is nearly as long 
as the vexillum, densely hairy on the inside also. Benth. 1. c.p. 443. 
Has. Rocks above Hott. Holland Kloof, Z. é Z./ (Herb. Bth., Sd., D.) 
A smaller plant than Z. spherica, which it much resembles, but is well marked 
by its hairy calyx and ciliated bracts. Leaves 1}-1} inch long, }-4 inch wide, | 
densely imbricated. Heads of flowers nodding, scarcely 2 inches in diameter. 
Lowest calyx-segment lanceolate, softly villous on both surfaces. FI. bright yellow. 
3. L. Burchellii (Benth. Lond. Journ. 2. p. 443); “ branches gla- 
brous ; leaves lanceolate-oblong, mucronate-acute, thick, obscurely 
about § nerved ; bracts ciliate ; calyw everywhere hairy, all the seg- 
ments ciliate, hairy within, the lowest half as long as the vexillum.” Bth. 
Has. Cape colony, Burchell, No. 6881. 
Said to resemble the preceding species in aspect, but having longer and narrower 
leaves, and a more hairy and differently proportioned calyx, 
4. L. parva (Vogel, ex Walp. Linn. 13. p.. 468) ; stem slender, ee RQ. 4 
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densely villous ; leaves spreading or reflexed, elliptical or oblong, acute 
and pungent, 3-5 nerved, sparsely villous ; bracts broadly elliptical, 
hairs; calyx densely hairy externally, 
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all the segments well-fringed, the lowest which is rather shorter than “wer 
the vexillum, hairy on the inside also, Benth. l. c. p. 443. Bot. Mag. t. 
| 4034. L. crassinervia, Meisn. Lond. Journ. 2. p. 63 ? 
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Has. 8. Africa, Bowie, Forbes. Near Simon’s Bay, Mr. C. Wright, 549. (Herb. 
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" Stem 1-2 feet high, suberect or trailing, irregularly branched, all the younger _ 
twigs patently hairy. Leaves scattered, more distant than in the preceding species, 
4-¥ inch long, about } inch wide, the young ones thinly villous. Heads of flowers 
| erect, 1-1} inch in diameter ; the bracts 4 inch wide or more, suborbicular or 
\ elliptical ; their cas “Ala digg Calyx 3-3 inch long, its smaller segments 
dar saad te ter | an in others. Fl. yellow. This looks like a Priestleya. 
—— __IV. PRIESTLEYA, DC. 
Calyx subequally 5—cleft, the lowest lobe equal to the rest or scarcely 
obtuse, subfalcate ; carina incurved, without lateral appendages. Sta-_ 
mens 9 & 1. Ovary sessile, several-ovuled. Legume plano-compressed, ss : 
4-6 seeded. Benth! in Hook. Lond. Journ, 2 p. 444. DO. Prod. 2, Pe 
121, Priestleya and Xiphotheca, LE. § Z. . 
longer. Corolla glabrous ;_ vewillum subrotund, shortly stipitate; ale 
South African shrubs, with alternate, simple, exstipulate leaves. Flowers yellow, 3 fe So 
