70 LEGUMINOSH (Harv.) [Argyrolobium. — 
Has, Chumie and Winterberge, Z. § Z./ Katberg, and between Keiskamma and 
Buffalo river, Drege/ (Herb. Hk., Bth., D.) 
A densely branched, robust, erect shrub, 1~3 feet high, well covered with leaves. 
Pubescence appressed, short, fulvous. Petioles 4-4 inch long, leaflets 1-14 inch long, 
2-4 lines broad. Racemes terminal, few-flowered, rather dense, Flowers yellow. 
Occasionally more glabrous. 
7. A. crassifolium (E. & Z.! 1305); thinly and minutely silky, much 
branched ; stipules very minute, setaceo-subulate ; leaflets short, broadly 
obovate or obcordate ; glabrous on the upper, thinly silky on the lower 
side ; lower lip of the silky calyx sub-entire or minutely 3-toothed ; 
vexillum glabrous ; legume silky. Benth! 1. ¢. p. 342. Chasmone crassifolia, 
LE, Mey. Comm. p. 72. Ch. Goodivoides, Meisn ? fid. Benth. Zey. No. 2303. 
Has. Among bushes, &c. Eland’s River, Uit., 2. Z.! Drege. (Herb. D., Hd. Sd.) 
A densely branched, closely and shortly pubescent shrub, 1-14 foot high, erect. 
Stipules, except on the young shoots, where they are sometimes + inch long and 
lanceolate ! very short. Leaflets 3-4 lines long, 2—3 lines wide, mucronulate. Pe- 
duncles short, terminal, 3-5 flowered. 
8, A. incanum (E. & Z.! 1306) ; densely tomentose, much branched ; 
stipules setaceous, small; leaflets short, broadly obovate or obcordate, 
densely silky-villous on both sides ; racemes sub-terminal aon la- 
teral), pedunculate, subumbellately 3-4 flowered ; lower lip of the to- 
mentose calyx sub-entire; carina rostrate, vexillwm glabrous; legumes 
silky. Chasmone obcordata, EZ, Mey? Comm. p. 72. : 
Has. Mountain sides. Bothasberg, near Grahamstown, E. § Z.! Assigaisbosch, 
Zey.! 2302, ex parte. (Herb. Sond.) 
In ramification this resembles A. erassifolium, to which it ia united by Walpers ; 
but the pubescence is different and much more copious. 
9. A. sericeum (E & Z.! 1304) ; densely silky-villous, branching, vir- 
gate ; stipules setaceous, equalling the petiole or shorter ; leaflets broadly 
obovate or obeordate, glabrous above, densely silky and fulvous beneath ; 
racemes dense, short, several flowered ; the lower lip of the densely 
silky calyx sub-entire; vexillum glabrous; legume silky-villous, Benth./ 
1. ¢. p.342. Dichitus sericeus, E. Mey.! Linn. 7. p. 154. Chasmone holo- 
sericea, E. Mey.! Comm. p. 72. Gamochilum sericeum,Walp. Galega trifo- 
hata, Thunb.! Cap. p. 600. Zey. 2300. 
eat 4 hills, Vanstaadensberg, Uit., #. ¢ Z.! Drege/ (Herb. Th., D., Hk., 
A stout shrub, 1-3 feet high, more or less branched ; the branches virgate 8-16 
inches long. Pubescence copious, fulvous and rather glossy ; the hairs sometimes 
short, sometimes long and loosely spreading. Petioles very short ; leaflets rarely 4 
inch long, 2-4 lines wide. Racemes 2 inches long, 10-16 flowered. Legumes ful- 
vous and densely silky, 14 inch long. 
10. A? obsoletum (Harv.) ; shrubby, much branched and ramulous, 
silky-villous ; stipules small, deltoid-amplexicaul ; leaves sub-sessile, 
leaflets lanceolate-oblong, short, with strongly revolute margins, densely 
silky on both sides; flowers 2-3 subterminal, on short pedicels ; calyx 
silky, campanulate, very short, obsoletely 2-lipped, the short upper lip mi- 
nutely bidentate, the lower tridentate; petals silky, more than twice 
as long as the calyx ; ovary linear, many ovuled, densely silky-villous, 
Aspalathus sericea, Thunb! Fl. Cap. p. 574 (excl. syn.) | . 
