Rafnia.] LEGUMINOS# (Harv.) 35 
nerved, but without obvious veins, more uniform in shape than in most species. 
Peduncles an inch long, shorter than the subtending leaf, articulate about a line from 
their base, and there furnished with a pair of linear, leafy, long or short bracts. 
Corolla scarcely protruding beyond the attenuated calyx lobes ; keel rostrate. Le- 
gume pendulous. This seems to me to be a well marked species. 
11. R. axillaris (Thunb. ! Prod. p. 123. non Benth.); branches sub- 
terete ; leaves narrow-oblong or lanceolate, acute, somewhat veiny ; 
flowering branches forked, with opposite leaves, a flower in the fork 
and on each arm; peduncles shorter than the flower ; upper and lateral 
calyx lobes separate, falcate, acuminate, rather longer than the tube, 
lowest setaceo-subulate ; legume pendulous, sessile, broad at base ; carina 
restrate. DC. Prod. 2. p. 119. 
Has. Cape, Thunberg! Bowie! Sidbury, near Grahamstown, Burke § Zeyher ! 
Swellendam, Mundt. (Herb. Th., Hk., Bth.) 
A small, slightly branched suffrutex, 1-2 feet high, diffuse or ascending, with the 
habit and foliage of R. lancea, for which it is frequently taken ; but with a very dif- 
ferent calyx, more nearly resembling that of R. elliptica. The inflorescence is a 
three flowered cyme ; the pedicels rarely more than 4 inch long. The calyx lobes 
are sometimes as long as the. carina, sometimes shorter. 
12, R. angulata (Thunb. Fl. Cap. p. 564) ; densely much branched, 
branchlets angular; leaves oblongo-cuneate, lanceolate, linear-lanceolate 
or lineari-filiform, sub-obtuse or acute ; flowering branchlets forked, 
leafy ; upper and lateral calyx lobes lanceolate or falcate, acute, sub- 
equal, nearly as long as the calyx tube or somewhat longer, the lowest 
setaceo-subulate, slightly shorter than the rest; legume much narrowed 
at base into an evident stipe. Benth. l. c. p. 467. 2. angulata, angustt- 
folia and filifolia, Thunb.! Prod, 123. DC. Prod. 2. 119. ; 
avek a. latifolia ; leaves cuneate-oblong, or lanceolate ; calyx lobes longer 
tube. 
_- Var. £. angustifolia ; leaves linear-lanceolate or filiform ; calyx lobes shorter than 
in var.a. £. § Z. No, 1196, 1197, 1199. : 
Has. Very abundant on the Cape Flats, and Capetown Hills ; also Hott. Holland 
and Drakenstein Mts. &c. (Herb. Th., Hk., Bth., Sd., D.) 
ad 12-18 inches high, suffruticose, erect or sub-erect, generally much branched ; the 
branches crowded, virgate or somewhat corymbose. Leaves }-14 inch long, vary- 
ing from half a line to nearly half an inch in breadth, of thickish substance and 
s veinless. Flowers with a very long, sharply rostrate keel, twice as long as the 
calyx, by which character, as well as that of the pod, the broad-leaved forms differ 
from R. crassifolia. ~ 
A smaller, weaker, and less branched plant than R. angulata, with a differently 
‘proportioned calyx ; in other respects similar and perhaps a mere variety. oi 
. specimen precisely agrees with that of Ecklon, in Herb. Sond. _ There are very ! a 
flowers, and they are of smaller size, with a much shorter corolla (in proportion % ~ 
= 14. R. Ecklonis (E. Mey. Com. p. 13); “leaves linear, four ‘upper 
calyx lobes dilated, obtuse.” ee 
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