72 LEGUMINOSZ (Harv.) [Argyrolobium. 
Stems 1-1} feet high, branched above, flexuous.. Leaves scattered ; petioles 3-1 
inch long, patent ; leaflets as long, 2~3 lines wide, thick and veinless. Pubescence 
pallid, the hairs long and close. Stipules 2 lines long. Pods 1-14 inches long, 
densely, but softly hairy. 
15. A. connatum (Harv.); shrubby, branched, densely silky-canes- 
cent; stipules deltoid, connato-perfoliate ; petiole very short ; leaflets 
short, narrow-lanceolate, concave, silky on both sides ; flowers in pairs, 
sub-sessile, terminal ; lower lip of the calyx three toothed ; vexillum 
and carina villous. 
Has. 8. Africa, Dr. Thom! (Herb. Hooker.) 
I venture to found a species on a single specimen preserved in Herb. Hooker, re- 
lying on the very remarkable character of the stipulation. The stipules are broad 
based, deltoid, clasping the stem, and connate at the side opposite the insertion of 
the leaf, so as to be completely “ perfoliate :” the compound stipule is sharply bifid. 
In other respects this plant resembles narrow leaved forms of A. collinwm, to which 
it was doubtfully referred by Bentham. 
16. A, collinum (E. & Z. 1311); suffruticose; stems short, sub- 
simple or branched, densely silky or silky-villous ; stipules narrow- 
lanceolate or subulate, small; petiole very short ; leaflets obovate-apicu- 
late or lanceolate, silky on one or both sides; flowers solitary or in 
pairs, sub-sessile, the lower ones sometimes pedunculate ; lower lip of 
the silky calyx sharply trifid; vexillum densely silky-villous; legume 
appressedly silky, erect. Benth./ 1. ¢. p. 343. Chasmone apiculata, E. 
Mey.! Comm. p. 73. 
- Var. a. vestitum ; leaflets obovate, densely silky on both sides. 
Var. 8. seminudum; leaflets obovate, glabrous above. Zey.! 2301, 2302 pte., 
2306. Argyr. obovatum, E. § Z.! 1307. Dichilus obovatus, E. Mey. ! Linn. 7. p» 154. 
Var. y. angustatum ; leaflets narrow lanceolate, silky on one or both sides. A. 
argentum, E. & Z, 1303. 
Has. Uitenhage district in many places, £. ¢ Z./ Drege / de. y. near Gauritz R., 
Swell.. Z. § Z./ (Herb. Hk., Bth., D., Sd.) 
A variable plant, from 2-12-14 inches high, sometimes copiously branched. Leaf- 
lets 4-4 inch long, 2—4 lines wide, mostly much longer than the petiole. Pods erect, 
14 inch long, densely silky. 
17. A. petiolare (Walp. Rep. 1. p. 632); rigidly branched, appres- 
sedly silky ; stipules very minute ; leaflets obovate-oblong, much shorter 
than the rigid petiole ; peduncles one flowered, shorter than the petiole ; 
the lower lip of the silky, bipartite calyx three-toothed ; vexillum pi- 
lose. Benth,! 1. c. p. 344. Chasmone petiolaris, E. Mey. ! Comm. p. 75+ 
Crotalaria argentea, Jacq. Hort. Schoenb. t. 220. 
Has. Hills near Uitkomst, Clanw., Drege/ (Herb. Bth., Hk.) 
Erect, 1-14 foot high, dichotomously much branched, bushy, remarkably rigid. 
Petioles 1-1} inch long, spreading ; leaflets about 4 inch long. Pubescence close 
Sateen shining and fulvous. Stipules obsolete, tooth-like. Calyx parted nearly to 
18, A. uniflorum (Harv.) ; slender, erect, sub-simple, glabrescent or 
thinly appresso-puberulent ; stipules small, subulate ; petioles shorter 
than the linear, acute, infolded leaflets ; flowers solitary (rarely in pairs) 
opposite the leaf, sub-sessile ; bracts setaceous ; lower lip of the thinly 
pubescent calyx trifid; vexillum silky ; legume sparsely appresso- 
pubescent, Zey./ 387. A fliforme 8. uniflorum, Harv. in Hb, Hook. 
