84 LEGUMINOS (Harv.) [Rafnia. 
virgate, more or less angular, sometimes obtusely so. Leaves 2-3 inches long, 4-1} 
broad, varying much in shape on different parts of the plant. On young root shoots 
they are generally broadly obovate, obtuse or mucronulate: on older parts more or 
less lanceolate, and often much acuminate and very narrow. The calyx-teeth vary 
in length, as compared with the tube, rather than in shape. The original specimen 
in Herb. Thunb. has exactly the calyx of var. a, but the narrow and sharp foliage 
of var. y : these forms are brought together through var. 8, which is the commonest 
in Uitenhage and Albany. 
8. R. racemosa (Eck. & Zey. ! No. 1188) ; leaves elliptical or oblong, 
mucronulate, somewhat cuneate at base, thick, midribbed, veinless ; 
flowers 3-4 in a short, terminal raceme; bracts small, subulate ; calyx 
lobes equalling the tube, acute, the upper broadly cultrate, lateral 
lanceolate-subulate ; lowest setaceo-subulate, equalling the rest; carina 
shortly rostrate. 
Has. Assegaiskloof and Breederiver, Swellendam, F. ¢ Z.! (Herb. Sd.) = 
This has the calyx of R. elliptica; but a different inflorescence, a much shorter, 
though rostrate, carina, and leaves of denser substance, leathery and not obviously 
veined. It might be conceived to be a cross between R. elliptica, a, and R. cunet- 
folia, y. Branches roundish, or somewhat angled. Leaves 1-1} inch long, $-$ 
inch wide, not much crowded, alternate. = Ne 
9. R. lancea (DC. Prod. 2. p. 119); stem angular’; leaves linear- 
oblong or oblongo-lanceolate, acute or mucronulate, somewhat veiny ; — 
peduncles axillary, one flowered, setaceo-bracteate below the flower ; upper 
and lateral calyx-lobes connate in two opposite pairs, connivent, friangtlar. 
acuminate, lowest setaceous, all much shorter than the carina ; legume 
cultrate, tapering at base. Oedmannia lancea, Thunb.! Fl. Cap.p. 561. 
#. & Z.!1 En. No. 1194. Harv. Thes. t. 72. Benth.! 1. ¢ (pro parte). 
Has. C. B. S. Thunberg! Dr. Thom! In sandy places, on the flats near Tiger- 
berg, Cape district; also at Klynriver, Caledon, FE. § Z./ Stellenbosch and the 
Paarl, Drege! Tulbaghskloof, Dr. Pappe! (Herb. Th., Bth., Hk., D., Sd.) 
A small, ascending or spreading suffrutex, 6-12 inches high ; simple or branched 
from the base. Leaves 14—2 inches long, 3-4 inch broad, with obvious midrib, more _ 
or less feather-veined. Peduncles an inch long, shorter than the subtending leaf, my 
articulate near the summit, and there furnished with a pair of setaceous or subulate : 
bracts. Calyx different from that of any other species, more deeply cloven between 
the two upper segments than between each of the upper and its lateral ; so that the 
calyx may be said to be 3—lobed, the two larger lobes sharply bifid, with connivent 
teeth, the sthaller lobe setaceous. The vexillum is strongly revolute, and it and the 
sharply rostrate keel are nearly twice as long as the calyx. : 
10. R. crassifolia (Harv. Thes. t. 71); branches sharply angular, or 
slightly winged ; leaves narrow-oblong, or cuneate-oblong, obtuse, 
mucronate, thick and veinless ; peduncles axillary, one flowered, bi- 
bracteate at base, deflexed after flowering ;_ calyx lobes separate, twice — 
or thrice as long as the tube, and as long as the carina, the four upper 
: ones lanceolate-acuminate ; legume oblong-cultrate, cuneate at base. 
a &. anillaris, H. § Z.! 1192. (non Thunb.) R. lancea (pro parte). 
= ¢ oe Q 7 l - c. p. 497. R. angulata, litt. f., Thunb.! in Herb. < 
ast, Ot ottentot’s Holland, near Palmietriver and Klynrivers hen Dae 
es ¢ “4 5 Klein-How-Hoek, Zeyher | 2281. Pappe/60. Simon’s Bar 0 Wrens / 564. ‘Gar 
howd EW town Hills, Dr. Hooker ! Bowie! Dr. Alexander Prior { (Hb. Th., Bth., Hk., Sd. D.) 
oa 3S ‘ 6 14-2 feet high, many stemmed, simple, or branched from the base; branches vir- 
ek \ 
gate, curved, sub-trigonous or compressed. Leaves scattered, 1-2 inches lo <a 
nearly 4 inch broad, tapering more de: Jeun: 40. the baie, of & Ahiekieh: ankehanen aun oe 
