Argyrolobiwm. | LEGUMINOS (Harv.) 73 
Has. Berg River and on the Vanstaadensberg Mts., Zeyher / Albany, 7. Wil- 
liamson! Mrs. F. W. Barber! (Herb. T.C.D., Sd., Hk.) 
Closely allied on the one hand to A. tuberosum, and on the other to A. filiforme, 
from both which it differs in inflorescence, and is more glabrous than either. It 
appears to be not uncommon in Albany, and constant to the differences noted. 
Stems 10-18 inches long. Leaves few and distant. Flowers smaller and much less 
hairy than in A. Jiliforme. 
19. A. filiforme (E. & Z.! 1315); slender, erect, sub-simple, thinly 
silky-canescent ; stipules small, subulate ; petioles shorter than the 
linear, acute, infolded leaflets ; peduncles shorter than the leaf, umbel- 
lately 2~4 flowered ; bracts setaceous ; lower lip of the silky-villous 
calyx trifid ; vexillum and legumes densely silky. Benth./ 1. c. p. 345. 
Galega filiformis, Thunb. ! Cap. p. 600. Chasmone angustissima, E. Mey.! 
Comm. p. 75. 
Has. Hills round Capetown, Pappe/! W.H.H., $c. Doornhoogde, £. § Z./ Hott. 
Holl. Mounts., Thunberg! Paarl, Drege! (Herb. Th., D., Hk., Bth.) 
Root thickened, fusiform, 2-3 inches long, 2~3 lines in diameter. Stems 6-8 
inches high, filiform. Petioles 4-4 inch long ; leaflets 1} inch long, and 2 lines 
wide. Peduncles from } inch to 1 inch long ; flowers very hairy. Pubescence 
pallid. 
20, A. tenue (Walp. Rep. 1. p. 632); suffruticose, much branched, 
thinly silky ; stipules minute or obsolete ; petioles very short, leaflets 
linear, apiculate, convolute, the lower ones cuneate-oblong ; peduncles 
shorter than the leaf, 1-2 flowered ; calyx thinly appressedly-silky, the 
lower lip shortly 3-toothed ; vexillum and legume glabrescent or puberu- 
lous. Benth.!1.c. p. 345. Chasmone tenuis, E. Mey.? Comm. p. 75- 
Has. Cape Colony, Bowie! (Herb. Hooker.) 2 
Rather Beaetiag pk corymbosely branched ; branches erect, slender. Peti- 
oles 1-2 lines long ; leaflets 6-7 lines long, with hooked points, pale green, puberu- 
lous. Young legume silky ; the ripe one minutely pubescent. ie 
alp. Linn. 13. p. 508); diffuse, slender, branch- 
‘ae ey caitlea itr small, deltoid-sa ulate; leaves on longish 
petioles ; leaflets obovate or oblong, apiculate, densely silky on one or 
both sides ; peduncles much longer than the leaf, umbellately 2-3 flow- 
ered, or one flowered ; the lower lip of the silky calyx trifid; vexillum 
and legume silky. Benth./ 1. c. p. 345: E. Mey.! Comm. p. 74. 
Has. Rocky places. Stormberg, Drege! Graaf Reynet, Mrs, FP. W. Barber 
ate das inches long, alternately divided. Pubescence copious on 
the ramuli, under surfaces of leaves and calyx. Leaflets 4-4 inch long, or some- 
what longer, 2-3 lines wide, commonly oblong or elliptical. Peduncle 14-3 inches 
long, rarely abbreviated. 
_&Z.! 1319); dwarf, slender, erect, swb-simple, thinly 
eek raphe silly 2. ; stipules linear or subulate, longer 
than the short petiole ; leaflets broadly obovate-oblong, netted with veins ; 
uncles much longer than the leaves, umbellately 3-5 flowered 5 
lower lip of the calyx deeply trifid ; vexillum gk Benth./ l.¢. p. 347: 
Chasmone venosa, H. Mey. / Comm. p. 73 (excl. var. 8.) ooo 
Has. Albany, Drege! On the Winterberg, Eck. § Zey.f Port Natal, Gueineius. 
(Herb. Bth., D., Sd.) ee 
