68 LEGUMINOS (Harv.) [Argyrolobium, 
Stipules very minute; petiole very long... ...... (17) petiolare. 
Stipules minute ; leaflets linear-acute, glabrescent, 
petiole short 2... .. . (18) uniflorum. 
§ 5. Pepuncunares. Suffrutices. Peduncles elongate, or sometimes short, one 
or several flowered, ~ : 
Leaflets lear, very narrow : peduncles shorter than the leaf. 
Slender, sub-simple ; vexillum and legumes densely 
sil. 
Beta aoa ia sn oe oe a 
Suffruticose, much-branched ; vex. and leg. gla- 
brescent : (20) tenue, 
Leaflets obovate, oblong, or lanceolate: peduncles 
1-2-3 flowered, shorter or not much longer than 
the leaf ten ye Cabe Sart ee ie ay eee 
Pubescence scanty, appressed; stipules small ; 
leaf. cuneate-oblong or lanceolate, rigid, veiny (26) patens. 
Pubescence copious, silky-villous ; stipules long, 
subulate; leafl. oblong or lanceolate ... ... (23) paucifiorum., 
Pubescence copious, silky-villous ; stipules small ; 
leafl. obovate or broadly oblong ...  . (25) pumilum, 
Pubescence pilose; leafl. piloso-ciliate ; stipules 
connate-amplexicaul, ovato-lanceolate ... ... (24) barbatum. 
Leaflets obovate or oblong ; peduncles elongate, umbel- 
lately 2-3-5 flowered : 
Diffuse, branching ; stipules small, subulate ; pe- 
tiole uncial Ree one ete ase Oey woe OE 
Erect, dwarf, sub-simple ; stipules linear-lanceo- 
late, exceeding the short petiole ... ... (22) molle. 
Ascending ; branches long ; stipules ovate, ex- 
ceeding the very short petiole ; leafl. puberulous (27) ascendens. ‘ 
Leaflets ovate or elliptical ; petioles long ; racemes on ; 
long petioles, few or many flowered ... ... ... (28) Andrewsianum., 
§ 6. Invotvorata. Suffruticose. Peduncles elongate, umbellately several flowered ; 
umbels subtended by a leaf-like bract. Stipules adnate to the petiole, connate- 
POtlOne i a ee (29) involucratum. 
Section 2. Eremolobium. Legume strongly compressed, sub-torulose, with trans- 
verse divisions between the seeds. 
Suffruticose, decumbent, sliky-canescent ; stipules falcate ; i 
leafl. lanceolate ; peduncles elongate, 1-3 flowered... (30) lanceolatum. ~~) 
Section 1. CHASMONE. (Sp. 1-29.) 
1A. crinitum (Walp. Linn. 13. p. 506); “very villous ; leaflets and 
stipules nearly similar, oblong; spike terminal, elongate.” #. Mey. 
crimita, E. Mey. Comm. p. 71. 
Has. Trado, in the Zwarteberge range, e, nknown to me. 
Root perennial, many stemmed. elt ae shen plant, Fret villous, vir- 
gate, subsimple, nearly a foot high to the spike. Petiole 4 inch long. Leaflets 
ovate-oblong, twice as long as the petiole, the lateral ones a little oblique. Stipules 
very large. Spike 6 inches long, the bracts oblong, scarcely shorter than the cal 
Petals yellow. Legume unknown. Habit peculiar ; nearly that of a Thermopsis. 
Calyx a little more closed than in the rest. Possibly the wed a new genus.” £.M. 
2. A. speciosum (Eck. & Zey.! 1320); glaucous, nearl 
: : a y glabrous or 
thinly silky-villous ; stem erect, triangular, flexuous, rgil ; stipules 
ovato-lanceolate, acute, the upper ones longer than the petioles; leaflets 
obovate or oblong, or the upper ones lanceolate, setaceo-mucronulate ; 
raceme ——s —— lower lip of the calyx deeply trifid ; le- 
gume silky. Benth. in . Journ. 3. p. 341. Chasmone heterophylla 
£. Mey. Comm. p. 71. Zeyher, 360. ets 
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