28 LEGUMINOS& (Harv.) [ Borbonia. 
Has. Common on Table mountain, &c. (Herb.,_Hk., Bth., Sd., D.) 
__A coarse, furze-like bush, 1-2 feet high, with bare, woody stems, branched chiefly 
at the summit. Branches crowded, fastigiate, much divided, the young twigs 
hairy. Leaves $ inch long, 1-2 lines wide at base, whence they taper to a very 
slender point, densely crowded, their bases 1 line apart ; upper leaves broadest, the 
young ones villous, older glabrescent, except on the edges, especially towards their 
base. Flowers 3-4, sub-sessile at the ends of the branches, both calyx and corolla 
densely hairy. Lower leaves 5—7, upper 12-1 5 nerved. 
3. B. lanceolata (Linn. Sp. p. 994); glabrous, or nearly so, slender, 
with virgate branches ; leaves scattered, lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, 
5-7 (rarely 3-9) nerved ; flowers solitary, in pairs, or sub-corymbose, 
on pedicels shorter than the leaves ; calyces glabrous. DO. Prod. 2. 
p. 120, Benth. l.c. p, 460, EH. § Z.! No. 1212. Jacq. Scheenb, t. 217. 
Lodd. Cab. t. 81. B. angustifolia, Lam. Dict. E. § Z.! No. 121 3. B. tri- 
nervia, DC. (non Thunb.) B. decipiens, E. M.! Comm. p. 15. 
Var. B. gracilis; leaves 3-nerved ; flowers small, on uncial pedicels. 
Con? n ib Ih, oy Has. Common from Capetown to Uitenhage, and to the Camiesberg : in all col- 
ek} 69, 
ections. Var. 8. Tulbagh Waterfall, Dr. Pappe / (Herb, Thunb. T.C.D., &c.) 
A slender, slightly-branched shrub, 1~3 feet high ; branches curved, glabrous or 
occasionally villous, with long soft white hairs. Leayes 2-4 lines apart, 3-14 inch 
long, 4-24 lines broad, broadest in the middle. Flowers 5-6 lines long, sub-terminal, 
either on a short, 2-flowered peduncle, or in a corymbose, 4-6 flowered raceme, 
Calyx-lobes very variable in length, strongly 3-nerved. Corolla silky-villous. The 
leaves vary much in comparative breadth ; and the inflorescence as above stated ; 
but the species is easily limited by the characters assigned. £8. is a very slender 
variety, with small (3 lines long) pale flowers, and 3-nerved leaves, 
** The vexillum hairy; the ale and carina glabrous. (Sp. 4-13) 
4. B. monosperma (DC. Prod. 2. p. (20) ; leaves oblongo-lanceolate, 
three-nerved, glabrous, as well as the stem, or slightly villous ; pedun- 
cles one-flowered, longer than the small flower, hairy, as is also the 
calyx; ovary 2-ovuled ; legumes ovate-oblong, acute, 1~2 seeded. 
Benth. 1. ¢. p. 461. 
Haz. Cape Colony, Bowie? (Herb. Hook.) 
Leaves 14 inch long, two lines broad, very acute, nerveless on the upper, with 3 
prominent distant nerves on the under side. Flowers I have not seen. 
5. B. villosa (Harv.); slender, diffuse, _villoso-pubescent ; leaves 
scattered, patent or deflexed, lanceolate-oblong, acute, three-nerved, 
villous on both surfaces ; peduncles one-flowered, shorter than the leaf ; 
calyx-teeth subulate, longer than the tube; ovary several-ovuled, 
legume linear-oblong, acute, 1-2 seeded, very villous. 
. Has. South Africa, Wallich! Between Witsen! and Schurfdeberg, Zey, ! 
Pappe! 128. (Herb. Hk., Bth., Sd., T.C.D.) She Sig Gaia da 
: ‘ong as the glabrous carina. Ovary and 
densely covered with long, soft hairs, by which character it differs from all other 
‘species of Borbonia. It is in other respects allied to B. monosperma. 
6B trinervia (Thunb. Prod. p. 122); glabrous; branches slender: 
leaves scattered, linear-lanceolate, pungent, 3 (rarely 5) nerved; pe- 
duncles filiform, equalling the leaves, 2—3~bracteate below the flower ; 
