36 ‘LEGUMINOS (Harv.) [ Rafnia. 
Has. Cape Flats, Ecklon. (Unknown to us). : 
This can hardly be intended for R. humilis ; but nothing like it occurs in Ecklon’s 
(now Sonder’s) private herbarium. 
15. R. Thunbergii (Harv.); branches virgate, angular ; leaves linear- 
lanceolate, attenuate ; flowering branchlets (in a long pseudo-thyrsus) 
forked, leafy, 1-3 flowered ; upper and lateral calyx teeth deltoid- 
acuminate, not half as long as the tube, with rounded interspaces, the 
lowest setaceous, shorter than the rest ; carina falcato-rostrate, 3-4 
times as long as the calyx; pod tapering at base into a stipe. Crotala- 
ria virgata, Herb. Holm. ! 
Has. South Africa, Thunberg! (Herb. Upsal, Holm.) 
Apparently a tall shrub ; branches 1-2 ? feet long, densely leafy below ; the upper 
half, for the space of ten or twelve inches, converted into a dense thyrsoid inflores- 
| cence, Individual flowering branchlets axillary, 14-2 inches long, bearing 1-3 
flowers and a pair or two of leaves. Leaves 4-1 line broad, 1-14 inch long, taper- 
| ing to each end. Carina sharply bent upwards, much longer than the vexillum.— 
This species is founded on one of the sheets marked “ Rafnia filifolia” in Thunberg’s 
| Herbarium. The sheet holds three specimens, each of the full length of the paper 
| (14 inches), and seemingly but broken tops of much longer branches. The thyrsus 
| reminds one of Lebeckia Simsiana. The calyx is so unlike that of any other of this 
| section, and the thyrsoid habit so peculiar, that I have no hesitation in proposing 
. the species, which I recommend to the notice of our South African friends. Pos- 
sibly a native of Groenekloof? Another specimen also from Thunberg, exists in 
Herb. Holm. marked Crotalaria virgata. 
3. PELECYNTHIS (Sp. 16-18.) 
16. R. ( Pelecynthis ) opposita(Thunb. Fl. Cap. p. 564) ; branches some- 
what angular; cauline leaves scattered, oblong or oblongo-lanceolate, 
narrowed at base, acute, mucronulate ; flowering branches once or twice 
Zz forked, with opposite leaves ; pedicels shorter than the leafy bracts ; 
aS upper and lateral calyx lobes triangular, acute, of equal size, with a 
wide interspace ; the lowest subulate, slightly longer; carina very 
broad, truncate and emarginate ; legume stipitate. Benth. l. c. p. 468, 
DC. Prod. 2. p. 119. E. § Z. En. No. 1191, also R. spicata, 1193, and R. 
Vlas Ke pauciflora, 1195. 
Lape fee _ Has. Cape Flats and Muysenberg, Falsebay ; also in Stellenbosch and Swellen- 
We dam districts, E. § Z./ Pappe (61), &e- (Herb. Th., Bth., Hk., Sd., D.) 
_ 1-1} feet high, many stemmed, ascending or sub-erect, branches not much di- 
vided. Leaves 1} inch long, 4~4 inch broad, thick and nearly veinless. Flowering ; 
branchlets 2-4 inches long, slender, com Carina 2-3 times as long as the 
ealyx, the truncate extremity nearly two lines broad. ; 
_ 1. RB. (Pelecynthis) affinis(Harv.) ; branches sub-terete, the flower- 
ing branchlets once or twice forked, compressed ; leaves ovate-elliptical 
or broadly oblong, acute at each end, mucronulate, somewhat veiny ; 
peduncles short, one flowered, in the forks of the branchlets ; upper 
and lateral ealyx-lobes triangular-acuminate, distant, lowest subulate, — 
somewhat longer ; legume shortly pedicellate, narrowed at base, lanceo- 
ae late. &. axillaris, Benth. ! Lond. Journ. non Thunb. 
as os Slee ae Se Flats and hill sides, Bowie / W. H. H., Gueinzius, &e. (Herb. Bth., 
1K. 3 7% , > . 
— : ‘SMA T retain this species with much doubt, as distinct from R. opposita, to which it is 
; Mla, very nearly allied, but has much broader, thinner, and more veiny leaves ; more 
om aegis — lobes and somewhat larger flowers. Leaves 1-14 inch long, 
