22 LEGUMINOS (Harv.) [ Amphithalea. 
and P. axillaris, DC. Prod. 2. p. 122. P. elliptica, B. Mey. (non DC.) P. 
Meyeri, Meisn. Ld. Jrn. 2. p.65. Lathriogyne candicans, E. & Z, 11245. 
Has. Mountains round Capetown ; Devil’s and Table Mountain summit. Z. § Z./ 
W. H. H., &c. Hottentots’ Holland. (Herb. Th., Bth., Hk., Sd., D.) 
A stout shrub, much branched, with virgate or ramulose branches, decumbent or 
spreading, 2-3 feet long. Leaves densely imbricated, 3-7 lines long, 2-5 broad, 
very soft and satiny. Flowers nestling among the leayes, light purple, either 
crowded and somewhat capitate at the ends of short branches, or distributed in leafy 
pseudo-spikes 6-8 inches long. Pods 3-4 lines long, densely villous, very acute. 
The leaves vary in size and shape, and in the faintness of the ribs and veins. 
** Ovary one-ovuled (Sp. 3-9). 
3. A. violacea (Benth. Lond. Journ. 2. p. 45 ni branchlets alternate, 
divergent, rigid, at length bare of leaves, silky ; leaves spreading, ovato- 
lanceolate, acute, flat, with slightly reflexed margins, one-nerved, ap- 
pressedly silky and pale on both surfaces; . spikes terminal, leafy, 
flowers sub-sessile, solitary or clustered ; calyx silky, its lobes triangu- 
lar, acute, half as long as the tube, legume ovate, tomentose. Ingen- 
houssia violacea, E. Mey.! Com. p. 21. Burch. Cat. No. 7436. 
Has. Outeniqua Mts., George, Drege/ Bowie! Burchell. (Herb. Bth., Hk., Holm.) 
2-3 feet high, woody, divaricately much branched ; the larger branches closely 
set with erecto-patent branchlets 2-3 inches long. Leaves not very densely set, 
3-4 lines long, 1-2 wide ; the margin very slightly recurved. Flowers 2 lines long, 
the keel dark-purple, other petals lilac. 
4, A. intermedia (Eck. & Zey. No. 1234); branches slender, virgate, 
silky ; leaves oblong or oblongo-lanceolate, acute or mucronate, nearly 
flat, obscurely one-nerved, silky on both surfaces ; flowers axillary, soli- 
tary or crowded in terminal spikes ; calyx lobes shorter than the tube ; 
legume ovate, acute, silky. Benth./ 1. ¢. p. 451, also A. humilis, E.& Z.! 
1233, and Zey. 2286, b. de. Burch. 5971 and 6667. 
Has. Stony hill-sides, in Caledon and Swellendam, £. § Z./ Bowie, Burchell. 
Klynriviersberg, Zeyher! (Herb. Bth., Hk., Sd., D.) 
A small, sub-erect or ascending many-stemmed shrub, 8-16 inches high ; branches 
simple or sparingly divided, virgate. Leaves scattered or crowded, erect, 3-5 lines 
long, 1-3 lines broad, shining and silvery. Flowers 2 lines long ; the keel dark 
5. A. ericeefolia (E. & Z. 1239); much branched, branches virgate 
or ramuliferous, silky; leaves erect, incurved or spreading, linear-oblong 
or lanceolate, acute, with strongly revolute margins, silky on one or both 
surfaces ; calyx lobes shorter than the tube ; legume ovate, turgid, acu- 
minate. Ingenhousia ericefolia, E. Mey.! p. 21. Priestleya ericefolia, 
DC. Prod, 2. p. 122. 
Var. a. glabrata ; adult leaves glabrous and shining on the upper surface. A. eri- 
cefolia, E. § Z. 11239, and A. hilaris, E. & Z,/ 1238. Indigofera sericea, Thunb.! 
Var. 8. multifiora ; adult leaves silky on both sides. A. multiflora, E. § Z. ! 1236. 
A, densiflora, E. & Z. 1237, and A. incurvifolia, E. § Z.1 1235. A Vogelii? Walp. 
Linn. 13. p. 472. Indigofera sericea, Thunb. ! in Herb. Holm. Zey.! 367. 
_ Has. Common on hills, &c. Cape and Stellenbosch, (Hb. Th., Bth.,Hk., Sd., D. 
Erect or sub-erect, many-stemmed, 1-2 feet high ; branches either quite simple 2 
having lateral, erect, short twigs. Leaves 3~4 lines long, 1 line wide, more or less 
silky. Flowers in dense, terminal pseudo-spikes, similar to those of the preceding 
species. Intermediate states connect the two varieties, which I cannot always dis- 
tinguish, A. Vogelii seems to be merely a starved state of var, B. 
