20 LEGUMINOS (Harv.) [Priestleya. 
inch long, 3-4 lines wide ; the petiole }-1 line long,"mucro not always obvious. 
Tiowees from the axils of the upper leaves, on short or longish peduncles. Calyx 
tube conical-campanulate, somewhat ribbed at base ; its teeth very short and broad. 
13. P. villosa (DC. Prod. 2. p. 122); much branched, twigs villoso- 
hirsute ; leaves ovate or elliptical, or oblong, acute at each end, sessile, 
flat, one-nerved, densely and softly villous on both surfaces 3 flowers in 
terminal heads, subsessile ; outer bracts lanceolate, shaggy, inner seta- 
ceous ; pedicels and calyx densely villoso-hirsute, the calyx lobes 
acuminate, about equalling the tube. Benth. l. c. p. 448. _Aiphotheca 
villosa, and X. tomentosa, LE. & Z.! No. 1226, 1227. Borbonia tomentosa 
and Laparia villosa, Linn. fide Benth. (not L. villosa, Thunb.) Crotalaria 
lanata, Thunb. ! Cap. p. 571. : 
Has. Common on the Capetown mountains. (Herb. Th., Bth., Hk., Sd., D.) — 
A densely branched, somewhat corymbose bush, 2-3 feet high and wide, thickly 
clothed with soft, long, whitish, appressed hairs. Leaves imbricating, 4, 3, or I 
inch long, }-} inch wide, erect or spreading. Heads 6-8, several flowered : their 
pubescence fulvous. In Thunberg’s Herbarium (Upsal), this is marked “ Crotalaria 
lanata ;” the specimen marked “ Liparia villosa” in the same collection is without 
flowers, but appears to be a villoso-pubescent variety of P. Thunbergii. If not so, 
it is a new species of the Jsothea section. 
14 =P. sericea (E. Mey.! Comm. p. 19) ; divaricately branched, 
branches villoso-hirsute ; leaves spreading or reflexed, ovate, oblong, or 
lanceolate, flat, sessile, acute, sericeo-villous on both sides, one-nerved ; 
flowers spicato-racemose or sub-capitate, from the axils of the upper 
leaves ; inner bracts setaceous ; calyx softly villous, the segments very 
narrow, acuminate, equalling the tube or longer ; pods patently hairy. 
Benth. ! 1. c. p. 448. Xiphotheca sericea, X. axillaris and X. lanceolata, 
E. § Z.! Ein. p. 167. Crotalaria reflexa, Thunb. ! Fl. Cap. 571. 
ar Mts. round Capetown and Simonsbay, common. (Herb. Th., Bth., Sd., 
A ies or diffuse, straggling shrub, with very patent, flexuous branches, 
clothed with long, white, spreading hairs. Leaves $-1 inch long, 2-4-5 lines wide, 
squarrose. Flowers often in pairs, the pedicels subtended by a small bract : some- 
times confined to the tips of the branches, and then capitate sometimes distributed 
in lo’ ‘pseudo-racemes. Thunberg’s specimen of “‘ Crotalaria reflexa,” belongs to 
this, although in Fl. Cap. he says the flowers are “purple.” ee 
15. P. tecta (DC. Prod. 2. p. 122); branches. divaricate, hairy ; 
leaves broadly ovate or subrotund, acute or obtuse, concave, patently 
villous on both surfaces, especially the under, obscurely one-nerved ; 
flowers axillary, on short pedicels ; calyx tomentose, its segments cult- 
rate, about as long as the tube. Benth. 1. c. p. 448. ILnparia tecta, 
Thunb.! Fl. Cap. p. 568. Xiph. polycarpa, E. & Z.! No. 122 5. “a 
Var. B. rotundifolia; leaves suborbicular, obtuse or mucronate, flattish, some- 
what penninerved. Xiph, rotundifolia, E. & Z.! No. 1224. P. rotundifolia, Walp. 
Has. Hott. Holland ; Stellenbosch ; the Paarl riage fy , &e. Drege 
Tulbagh and Klapmuts, Z. § Z.! (Herb. Th., Dh a, iy eee : 
_ A procumbent or diffuse shrub, with flexuous, widely spreading branches. Leaves 
imbricated, patent or reflexed, searcely half an inch long, 3-5 lines broad ; the nerve 
sometimes scarcely visible, sometimes well marked, Pods hirsute and velvetty. 
fulvous, 14 inches long, 3 wide. : 
