Rafnia.| LEGUMINOS (Harv.) gts. 
18. R. (Pelecynthis) cuneifolia (Thunb. ! Fl. Cap. p. 563); branch- 
lets more or less angular or compressed ; leaves either broadly-obovate, 
ovato-rhomboid, elliptical, oblong, or lanceolate, shining, one nerved, 
somewhat veiny or veinless ; peduncles several at the ends of the 
branches, sub-corymbose, leafless ; upper and lateral calyx lobes broadly 
triangular, acute or acuminate, shorter than the subulate lowest lobe. 
DC. Prod. 2. p. 118. H& Z. No. 1189. 
Var. a. rhomboidea ; leaves smaller, more rhomboid, thicker and less veiny than 
in the following. 2. rhomboidea, Walp. Linn. 13. p- 464. Benth. / 1. c. p. 499- 
Var. 8. obovata; leaves larger, more obovate or ovate-elliptical (the upper ones 
rhomboid), thinner and more veiny than in a, R. cuneifolia, Benth. ! l. c. p. 468. 
Var. y. lanceolata; leaves oblong-elliptical or lanceolate, somewhat veiny. 2. 
corymbosa, Walp. Linn. 13. p. 484. Benth. ! l. ¢. 
Has, Near Tulbagh, E. ¢ Z./ Piquetberg, Drege, . & 7. About the Paarlberg 
and Dutoit’s-kloof. (Herb. Th., Bth., Sd., Hk., D.) 
An erect or ascending, slightly branched, rather robust undershrub, 2-3 feet high. 
Leaves 1-2 inches long, of thickish substance, 4, 4, or nearly 1 inch broad, sub- 
acute or mucronulate. This is readily known from the preceding species by its in- 
florescence. In Thunberg’s Herb. are two specimens glued on one sheet ; one of 
them referable to R. rhomboidea, Walp., the other to R. cuneifolia, E. Mey. In 
Ecklon’s private Herb. the same intermixture occurs. Our three varieties come 
from the same district, and appear to me to differ merely in the foliage, which is 
notoriously variable throughout the genus. 
4. CAMINOTROPIS (Sp. 19-22). 
19. BR. (Caminotropis) dichotoma (E. & Z. No. 1190); robust, the 
flowering branches repeatedly forked, angular or compressed, with op- 
posite leaves ; leaves broadly ovate or elliptic-oblong, acute or mucro- 
nate, rounded at base and quite sessile, thick and veinless ; flowers 
solitary in the forks of the branches, on short pedicels ; calyx oblique, 
upper and lateral segments triangular, acuminate, distant, lowest rather 
broadly subulate, scarcely shorter than the tube ; carina fornicate, trun- 
cate, rectangular above; legume ovate-oblong, obtuse, on a long stipes. 
Benth.! Lc. p. 469. Pelecynthis gibba, E. Mey. Comm. p. 14. 
Has. South Africa, Burchell, No. 7742, Thom}. Mountains near Gnadendahl, 
E.&2Z.! Cederberg, Drege. Appelskraal, Riv. Zonderende, Zeyher / 2280, (Hb. 
Bth., Hk., Sd. 
A stout, ost growing, sub-erect undershrub, 14-2 feet high, with sub-simple, 
terete stems, bearing towards the summit a long pseudo-panicle of leafy flowering 
branches. These latter are 4-6 inches long, 3-4 times patently dichotomous, with 
a pair of leaves at each fork. Leaves 4-4 inch long, about 4 inch wide, somewhat 
fleshy, broad at base. Flowers 3-4 lines long, the two petals of the carina united 
to the very point ; vexillum with involute edges, strongly bent. 
20. R. (Caminotropis) retroflexa (Thunb.! Prod. p. 12 3); erect, 
divaricately much branched, the branches nodoso-articulate, dichotom- 
ous ; leaves mostly opposite, narrow-obovate, cuneato-attenuate at base, 
very obtuse, thick and fleshy, veinless ; flowers terminal, on short pedi- 
cels, small ; upper and lateral calyx segments triangular, acute, lowest = 
subulate, about equalling the tube ; carina fornicate, broadly truncate. - : 
Thunb.! Fl. Cap. p. 594- DC. Prod. 2. p. t19. 
"Has. South Africa, Thunberg! (Herb. Thunb.) i ae 
A distinctly woody, though slender shrub, 1-1} feet high, with the aspe 
Zygophyllum.” Leaves $ inch long, of uniform size and shape, 2-3 lines wide ; 
lower ones (wanting in Thunberg’s specimen) appear to have been alternate. ” 
