18 LEGUMINOS& (Harv.) [Priestleya. 
Has. Summit of Table Mountain, Thunberg! Dutoit’s-kloof and Gnadendahl, 
Drege ! Burchell (591). (Herb. Th., Bth.) 
A shrub, 2-3 feet high or more, somewhat umbellately branched, usually glabrous 
in all parts, except on the inflorescence. Leaves crowded, erect or appressed, 3-3 
inch long, a line broad, shining, very concave or convolute. Flowers 5-6 in ter- 
minal heads. Calyces densely clothed with long, rigid, foxy bristles. Pods few 
seeded, short, very hairy. 
6. P. hirsuta ie Prod. 2. p. 121); branches virgate, villous ; 
leaves obovate-oblong, mucronate-acute, somewhat rigid, 3-5 nerved, 
glabrous, or the younger ones villous; bracts ovate, rigidly cuspidate, 
hirsute; calyx hairy, its segments with glabrous, rigid points, ovato- 
lanceolate, acute, the lowest subulato-acuminate ; legume shaggy. Benth. 
lc. p. 446. E. & Z. En. No. 1220. Liparia hirsuta, Thunb! Fl. Cap. 
Pp. 507. | 
Has. In moist places, on hill sides, George and Uitenhage, Thunberg / Drege! 
E & Z.! Pappe (80), &e. (Herb. Th., Bth., Sd., Hk., D.) 
A stout, branching shrub, 2-3 feet high, erect ; the older branches becoming 
glabrous. Leaves 1-14 inch long, 4-4 inch broad, more or less acute or acumin- 
ate, narrowed toward the base, erect, somewhat concave, the nerves scarcely visible, 
except in the dried plant. Head-like racemes 6-8 or more flowered ; the pubescence 
rust coloured. Pods erect, few seeded, very hairy. 
7. P. Thunbergii (Benth. Lond. Journ. 2. p. 446); much branched, 
branches thinly villous, becoming glabrous ; lower leaves broadly ob- 
long, upper lanceolate, rigid, acute or acuminate, flat, one-nerved, glab- 
rous, the younger ones thinly villous ; flowers about four in an imper- 
fect umbel, on silky pedicels longer than the ovate, coloured, concave, 
pubescent and ciliate bracts; calyx silky, its segments broadly ovate, 
mucronate, the lowest acuminate. Priestleya wmbellifera, E. § Z. No. 
1219. Walp. Lin. 13. p. 469. (non DC.) Borbonia levigata, Lin. Mant. 
p Soa Liparia lengaia, Thunb! Fl. Cap. p. 566. L, villosa, Seb! 
0. 162. 
Van. 8. villosa; branches hairy ; leaves thinly villous on both surfaces. Liparia 
villosa, Thunb ! in Herb. Upsal. 4 
HaB. Moist places, East side of Table Mt., E. & Z./ Near Capetown, Sieber, &c. 
(Herb. Th., Bth., Sd., Hk.) * ico natal : 
A stout shrub, 2-3 feet high, or umbellately branched, the old branches 
naked, the y densely leafy. ves uncial, } inch wide, mostly lanceolate. 
Pedicels an inch long or less, twice as long as the bracts, or barely longer. Flowers 
8. P. myrtifolia (DC. Leg. Mem. p. 194. t. 29) ; stems glabrous, or 
downy near the summit ; leaves broadly ovate, obovate or ovato-lanceo- 
late, acute, margined, glabrous, one-nerved and sub-penniveined ; ra- 
cemes sub-umbellate, few flowered, pedicels minutely downy, longer 
than the glabrous, convolute, acute bracts ; calyx glabrous, with deltoid, 
sub-acute segments; pod densely villous. DC. Prod. 2.p.121. Benth. 
l.c.p. 446. EH. & Z. En. No, 1217, Liparia myrtifolia, Thunb! Fl. 
Cap. p. 565. 
Has. Hott. Holl. Stellenbosch Mts., #. & Z./ &e. (Herb. Th., Bth., Hk., Sd., D.) 
Stem 1}-3 feet high, sparingly branched, branches virgate ; the whole plant ex- 
cept the inflorescence, and occasionally the young ends of branches, glabrous. Leaves 
crowded, variable in shape, breadth and obviousness of veins, 1-1} inches long, 
} to ® inch wide, erect, flat ; the lateral veins very erect. Pedicels 1-14 inches 
