Borbonia.} LEGUMINOS& (Harv.) : 29 
legume oblong-linear, acute, many-seeded. H. & Z./ No. 1214. B. pun- 
gens, Mundt.! Benth. l. ¢. p. 461. B. monosperma, E. Mey. Comm. p. 15. 
. Has. Cape of Good Hope, Thunberg/ Mountains of southern region, Drege/ 
Subalpine places near Gauritz Hoogte, Mundt! Between Riversdale and Gauritz 
River, Pappe! (Herb. Thb., Bth., Hk., Sd., T.C.D.) 
A slender, diffuse shrub, 1-2 feet high, much branched above; the flowering 
branches twice as thick as hog’s bristle. Leaves scarcely an inch long, 1-14 lines 
wide, patent or squarrose, almost always 3-nerved ; occasionally the marginal rib is 
removed inward, and becomes a nerve. Flowers 3 lines long, glabrous ; the calyx- 
teeth deltoid-acuminate, one-nerved. The B. trinervia of Linnzus is said to have 
been founded on an imperfect specimen of Cliffortia ruscifolia. However this may 
be, an excellent specimen in Thunberg’s Herbarium, marked “ Borbonia trinervia, 
by Thunberg himself, belongs to the plant now described. I think it right, there- 
fore, to restore the early and appropriate trivial name. 
7. B. alpestris (Benth. Lond. Journ. 2. p. 461); “glabrous; the 
branches scarcely angular; leaves ovato-cordate, pungent-mucronate, 
entire, many-nerved ; peduncles 2~3 flowered, longer than the calyx.” 
Benth, l. ¢. 
Has. Subalpine bushy places, near Kochman’s Kloof, Mundt/ (Herb. Hook.) 
“A small, divaricately-branched shrub, with short and slender branches. Leaves 
4-6 lines long, 2 lines wide, 7-9 nerved on the lower side, veinless between the 
nerves. Flowers not seen. Fruit-stalk 3-4 lines long, slender, divided near the 
apex into 2~3 short pedicels. Bracts under the calyx subulate, striate. Calyx-tube 
14 line long, with narrow, setaceous, pungent segments as long as the tube, Pod 
nearly an inch long, 2 lines wide, acute, glabrous.” Benth. l.c.. Of this I have 
only — bag single, imperfect specimen described by Bentham, and preserved in 
Herb. Hoo. 
8. B. parviflora (Lam. Dict. 1. p. 437); glabrous; branchlets sharply 
; leaves broadly cordate-ovate, acuminate, pungent, minutely 
ciliato-papillate, 7-11 nerved on both surfaces, faintly netted-veined 
between the nerves; flowers sub-capitate, on short pedicels; calyx-tube 
shorter than the narrow subulate segments. DC. Prod. 2.p. 120. Benth. 
l. c. p. 462. H.& Z.! No. 1209. B. ruscifolia, Bot. Mag. t. 2128. 
DO. l.c. #.&Z.! No. 1208. B.alata,Willd, B. serrulata, Thunb.! Herb, 
_ Has. Mountains of the Cape and Stellenbosch districts, common, Thunberg! - 
E. § Z.! Drege! Pappe! c. (Herb. Th., D., Bth., &.) 
A robust, on branched, very rigid —_ baa palin Leaves 3-1 go 
long, 4—$ inch wide, s , ve sharp, flat, with cartilagino - 
pe a eit: mS Sheree aia The intermediate veins pitas Mea 
obvious in dried specimens. Flowers in dense, terminal, capitate racemes ; the 
bracts setaceous, longer than the pedicels. Vexillum hairy. Pods an inch long. 
9. B. latifolia (Benth. Lond. Journ. 2. p. 462); “branchlets sharply 
angular; leaves orbicular, mucronulate, cordate at base, very entire, or 
rough-edged, 11-15 nerved, obsoletely veined between the nerves; pe- 
duncles very short, many-flowered.” Benth. l. ¢. 
Has. Cape Colony, Burchell, No. 8087. : 
‘* A fruiting specimen. Leaves an inch long and wide, concave, nerved on both 
sides. Peduncles very short, 8-12 flowered. Pedicels rigid, 2-3 lines long. Flowers 
not seen. Legumes 8-9 lines long, 3 lines wide, glabrous, coriaceous, ig 
Benth. 
. 
10. B. complicata (Benth.! Lond. Journ. 2 p- 462) ; “branch et 
round, glabrous; leaves amplexicaul, broadly cordate-ovate, taper- 
