Argyrolobiwin. | LEGUMINOSZ (Harv.) 75 
Has. Bockeveld, Thunberg! District of Uitenhage in several places. Nieuweveld 
and Camdebo, £. §. Z.! Drege! Burchell, 3491. (Herb. Th., Bth., Sd., Hk, D.) 
: Root and stems woody. Branches diffuse, 3-4 inches long. Pubescence variable 
in amount, sometimes rather scanty. Petioles very short ; leaflets 4-} inch long, 
2-3 lines wide, veinless, mostly blunt. Peduncles 4-14 inch long: occasionally 
some or all the flowers are su ile. 
26. A. patens (E. & Z.! No. 1309); dwarf, slender, much branched, 
thinly and appressedly silky ; stipules from a broadish base subulate ; 
petioles much shorter than the narrow, cwneate-oblong or lanceolate, acute, 
rigid, veiny, thinly-silky leaflets ; peduncles somewhat longer than the 
leaf, one flowered; lower lip of the silky calyx deeply 3-fid; vexil- 
lum and legume puberulent. Benth. lc. p. 347. Zey. 2304- 
Has. Cape Colony, Bowie/ Grassy pastures near the Zwartkops River, E. & Z. 
(Herb. Bth., D., Hk., Sd.) 
Nearly allied to A. pumilum, but with narrower, more acute and rigid and vei 
leaves, and a much more scanty pubescence. Leaflets 5-7 lines long, 1-14 
glabrous on the upper side. Peduncles 1 inch long. 
97. A. adscendens (Walp. Linn. 13. p. 507); slender, appressedly 
silky ; branches elongate, ascending ; stipules small, ovate, acute, longer 
than the very short petiole ; leaflets ovate or elliptical, puberulous on 
both sides, silky-margined; peduncles much longer than the leaves, 
umbellately 1-3 flowered ; lower lip of the calyx deeply trifid. Benth. 
1. c. p. 347. Chasmone ascendens, E. Mey. Comm. p. 73- 
Hap. Caffraria, between the Omcomas and Omblas Rivers, Drege / (Herb. Bth.) 
Branches 1-2 feet long, curved. Leaves 2-3 inches apart ; petioles 1 line long ; 
leaflets 4-3 inch long, 3-4 lines wide, with a border of fulvous, silky hairs. Ped- 
uncles 2-3 inches long. 
98. A. Andrewsiana (Steud.) ; tall, fleawous, lazly branched, sparsely 
silky or glabrescent ; stipules small, subulate ; leaflets ovate or elliptical, 
on long petioles, silky-ciliate, and sparsely silky ; racemes on long pedi- 
cels, few or many flowered ; lower lip of the calyx trifid; vexillum 
silky ; legumes glabrescent. Benth. l.c. p. 349. Cytisus tomentosus, Andr. 
Rep. t. 23.7. Goodia? polysperma, DC. Prod. 2. p. 118. Chasmone Andrews- 
iana, E. Mey. ! Comm. p. 74- Dichilus ciliatus, E. § Z. 1391. 
VAR. a. racemosum ; raceme fasciculately many flowered. 
Van, B. pauciflorum ; peduncles abbreviate, sub-umbellately 2-3 flowered. 
Van. y. helvolum ; stems, petioles and peduncles patently hispid, with yellow 
tawny hairs ; peduncles few flowered. 
Has. Eastern Districts ; extending from Uitenhage to Port Natal, Drege! E.gZ! 
Hutton, &e. Var. y. Natal, Gueinzius! (Herb. D., Bth., Hk., &c.) : 
Stems 2-3 feet high, angularly bent, straggling. Pubeseence variable, sometimes 
very scanty. Petioles 1-1} inch long ; leaflets as long, or shorter, #-1 inch wide, 
thin, pale green. Not much like any of the other species. 
99, A.? involucratum (Harv.) ; procumbent, much branched ; 
branches, peduncles and pedicels woolly ; stipules broadly ovate, acute, 
leafy, connate-perfoliolate and adnate to the very short glabrous ; 
leaflets (small) ovato-oblong, acute, complicate, glabrous ; pedunctes 
terminal, longer than the leaves, umbellately 4-5 flowered; umbels 
subtended by a leaflike 1 agen spas gen and trifoliolate) bract ; ¥F 8 
equalling the calyx ; calyx villous, tubular, its upper lip bipartite, lower 
