76 LEGUMINOS (Harv.) [Argyrolobvum. 
deeply trifid ; vexillum and carina silky. Psoralea involucrata, Thunb.! 
Ll. Cap. p. 607. 
Has. South Africa, Thunberg! (Herb. Upsal). 
Diffuse or procumbent ; stems woody at base, flexuous, much branched, robust, 
terete, densely fulvo-tomentose. Leaves close together ; petioles 1-3 lines long, 
altogether adnate to the broad, leafy stipules which unite round the stem into a per- 
foliolate stipule. Leaflets 3-4 lines long, 2 lines wide, smaller than the stipules. 
Peduncles 1-2 inches long, ending the branches, crowned with a floral leaf or bract 
exactly similar to the ordinary leaves, and similarly stipulate. This floral leaf forms © 
an involucre to the umbellate flowers. Pedicels 4—} inch long. Calyx 4 lines long, 
the tube nearly twice as long as the limb. Carina nearly equalling the vexillum. 
Ovary, silky, linear, 6-ovuled. The calyx tube is longer than in other species ; 
somewhat similar stipules are found in A. barbatum and A. connatum. 
Srcr. 2, Eremolobium. Legume strongly compressed, subtorulose within, between 
the seeds, transversely septate. (The species of this section are chiefly Asiatic or 
European ). 
- 30, A. lanceolatum (Eck. & Zey.! 1316); suffruticose, decumbent, 
silky and silvery; stipules oblique, falcato-lanceolate or ovate, much 
shorter than the petioles ; leaflets of the lower leaves obovate, elliptical 
or oblong, of the upper lanceolate, nearly or quite glabrous on the upper, 
silky and silvery on the lower side and at the margin; peduncles 
elongate, 1-5 flowered ; calyx and vexillum densely silky; legume 
Surrowed between the seeds. Benth./ 1. c.p. 349. Ononis sericea, Thunb. ! 
Crotalaria lunaris, Linn. Dichilus lanceolatus, E. Mey. ! Linn. 7. p. 154. 
Chasmone lanceolata, E. Mey.! Com. p. 75. Zey. 388, 389. 
Has. Mountains of the Cape District, &c., common. (Herb. D., Hk., Th., &.) 
Root woody ; stems many from the crown, decumbent, 2 feet long or more, slen- 
der, not much branched ; the branches ascending. Leaflets of the lowest leaves 
short, blunt and broad ; of the upper narrow, and acute at each end. Peduncles 
4-6 inches long. Legume 2-2} inches long, 14 line wide, somewhat falcate. 
( Doubtful Species. ) 
A. umbellatum (Vogel, MSS.); leaves trifoliolate, petiolate ; leaflets 
oval-subrotund, acuminate, silky tomentose on both sides, about twice 
as long as the petiole ; flowers umbellate, terminal. Walp, in Linnea, 
13. p. 509. 
_ A. splendens (Walp.) ; suffruticose, densely much branched, ascend- 
ing, branches silky villous ; leaves densely set, on short petioles; leaf- 
lets coriaceous, oblong, acute, with revolute margins, midribbed beneath, 
the young densely silky on both sides, the adult becoming glabrate and 
shining above ; stipules obliquely ovate, acute, about equalling the 
petioles ; peduncles terminal, elongate, umbellately 2-4 flowered ; calyx 
silky-villous, little shorter than the corolla, the upper lip bipartite, the 
lower longer, trifid ; legumes lanceolate, silky. Meisn.—Meisn. in Hook. 
Lond. Journ, 2. p. 78, 
Has. Mountain sides near “‘ Hemel and Aarde,” Swell., Krauss !927. (Hb. D.) 
Of this plant I have seen neither perfect flowers nor legumes, and am uncertain 
where to place it. Meisner regards it as nearest to A. lanceolatwm, of which it has 
the stipules and in some respects the foliage ; but it is more robust, more densely 
branched, with much more frequent leaves, shorter petioles, and revolute margins, 
oe wep A. lanceolatum varies considerably, and all, this may be one of its 
extreme forms. 
