26 LEGUMINOS (Harv.) [ Walpersia. 
Has. Dutoitskloof Mountains, Drege! Also (fide Benth.) a narrow-leaved variety 
in Herb. Burchell (No. 6687). (Herb. Bth., Hk., D.) 
A small, scrubby plant, 6-8 inches high, much branched ; the twigs flexuous, fur- 
rowed and thinly silky. Leaves spreading or squarrose, 3-4 lines long, 4-1 line 
broad, the younger ones silky. Flowers small, 
8. C. muraltioides (Benth. 1. c.) ; branches rigid, more or less tomen- 
tose; leaves linear-sub-lanceolate, or the lower ones short, obtuse, strongly 
involute, spreading or squarrose, straight or somewhat twisted, tomen- 
toso-villous on the Stpper side, cano-villous, becoming sub-glabrous on 
the outer ; floral leaves broadly ovate, acute, one-nerved ; calyx pubescent, 
its teeth very short and obtuse; stamens very shortly monadelphous ; 
petals perigynous. Benth, 
Ode ele Kloof, Burke and Zeyher ! Witsenbergsvlakte, Dr. Pappe ! (Herb- 
Much bcerahed, 1—2 feet high, canescent and tomentose ; the branches virgate, 
furrowed. Lowest leaves, 2-3, middle and upper ones 4—5 lines long, 4 line wide, 
80 strongly involute as to be nearly cylindrical. Flowers in capitate, five-flowered 
spikes, near the ends of the branches, about 2 li long, purple. Young plants are 
very villous, with silvery-white hairs. = 
VIII. WALP Harv. 
Calyx campanulate, 5—cleft ; two upper segments broader than the 
three lower. Petals sub-zequi-long, all adnate at base to the staminal 
tube ; vextllum ovate, with a small callosity at the summit of the claw; 
ale oblong, eared at base; carina sub-incurved, bluntly spurred at each 
side. Stamens shortly monadelphous, 5 longer. Ovary bi-ovulate. 
Style subulate. 
A small shrub, closely allied to Celidium, but differing in foliage and in the sol- 
dering of the petals to the short staminal tube. Leaves petiolate, linear, with 
reflexed margins and a prominent midrib beneath. Flowers axillary, yellow. Calyx 
bibracteate at base. This genus is inscribed to the memory of W. @. Walpers, 
author of the useful “Repertorium Botanices Systematice,” &c., &c., who commented 
learnedly on §, African Leguminose in the “Linnzxa,” vol. 13. P- 453, et seq. The 
genus Walpersia, Reiss. is the same as Phylica, L. 
W. burtonioides (Harv.) 
Has. Glassenbosch, Zeyher. Feb.—Apr. erb. Sond.) 
A small shrub, 6~12 inches high, pa SGiSe Iegheded branches erect, angular, 
villous. Leaves spirally inserted, imperfectly whorled, 4-5 lines long, 4 line wide, 
exactly linear, acute, sub-mucronulate, thickish, plano-convex and muricated on the 
upper surface, the ins revolute and the broad midrib very prominent beneath. 
line tae. Flowers axillary, towards the end of the branches, on 
hairy pedicels, 1-2 lines long. Bracts leaf-like at the base of the calyx, 4~5 lines 
long. Calyx silky-villous, all its segments subulate-attenuate, sub-aristate, the two 
upper ovate at base, the lower lanceolate. Corolla 4-5 lines long, the claws of the 
petals attached to the short staminal tube. Vexillum, with a slender, channelled 
claw, callous-tubercled at the summit, suddenly passing into the ovate limb. Ale 
eared at base and corrugate at the sides. Curtin cheeses: incurved, sub-acute, 
scarcely rostrate, eared at base, and furnished with a small, blunt, pouch-like spur. 
Staminal tube scarcely exceeding the claws of the petals; filaments filiform, elon- 
gate. Ovary sessile, silky, with a long style, Legume unknown. This has more 
the look of an Australian Burtonia than any 8. African species known to me. 
