78 LEGUMINOS# (Harv.) [Melolobium. 
vexillum oblong ; carina blunt, Stamens monadelphous. Ovary several 
ovuled. Legume linear, compressed, torulose, glandular or hairy. Benth. / 
in Lond. Journ. Bot. 3. p. 350. 
South African shrubs or suffruticose plants, more or less viscid and glandular, 
variously pubescent. Leaves petiolate and stipulate, 3-foliolate. Flowers yellow, 
in terminal spikes or spicate racemes, with 3 bracts under each flower. Name from 
Behos, a joint, and Aofuov, a legume; the legumes are constricted, as if jointed, be- 
tween the seeds. 
TABLE OF THE SPECIES. 
* Armed with spines, divaricately much-branched. Spicate-racemes few-flowered. 
Bracts longer than the cal.-tube. Calyx equalling thecorolla (1) calyeinum. 
Bracts short. Calyx shorter than the corolla. : 
Viscidulous, but scarcely glandular ; twigs canescent. 
Legume straight ... ...... (2) candicans, 
Legume falcate-curved ... ... (3) canescens. 
Glandular, scabrous, and pubescent ; not canescent (4) microphyllum. 
* Unarmed, suffruticose. Spicate-racemes or spikes many-flowered : 
Spicate-racemes law, flowers not imbricating : : 
Leaflets linear-cuneate, or obovate-oblong, much narrower than long : 
Rough in all parts with stalked glands ; 
Branches and twigs nearly without hairiness (gs) adenodes. 
Branches and twigs silky, subcanescent ... (6) humile. 
Without prominent glands, but more or less viscid : 
Nearly glabrous ; calyx deeply parted, lower 
lip trifid perMans apes ate 3 uy tee es 
Thinly pubescent ; calyx shortly bilabiate, 
lower lip subentire ...  ... (8) alpinum. 
Densely and softly pubescent : calyx deeply ; 
parted, lower lip trifid ... ... ...  .. (9) cernuum. “* 
Leaflets oblong-obcordate, sharply emarginate, glan- 
dular and pubescent set RS. ee Ta 6) OOraatae, 
Spikes very dense, cylindrical, the flowers imbricating ; 
stipules leafy oie i i. GS es 
1, M. calycinum (Benth. ! in Hook. Lond. Journ. 3. p. 350); divari- 
eately much-branched, scarcely glandular, spiny ; twigs hairy-pubescent ; 
leaflets glabrous or nearly so ; stipules semi-cordate, equalling the peti- 
ole; bracts ovate-acuminate, longer than the calyx-tube; calyx villous, 
equalling the corolla, its segments ovato-lanceolate,, acute ; legume vil- 
lous. Zey.! 394. 
Has. Sand River, Betchuanaland, Burke ¢ Zeyher! (Herb. Hk., Bth., Sd., D.) 
A depressed, excessively and intricately branched bush, every where bristling with 
sharp, spinous ramuli, Hef inch long, leafy at base. Leaflets linear-cuneate, folded 
together, green, 2-3 lines long, a line wide, minutely impresso-punctate. Flowers 
1-3, sub-sessile, at the base of rigid ramuli, which are prolonged into naked spines ; 
bracts and calyces hairy—one or two of the upper bracts barren. 
2. M. candicans (E. & Z.! 132 3); divaricately much-branched, 
scarcely glandular, spiny ; twigs velvetty-canescent ; leaflets glabrescent ; 
stipules semi-cordate-ovate ; bracts shorter than the calyx-tube ; calyx 
villous or glabrescent, shorter than the corolla, its segments ovate ; 
legume straight, 4-6 seeded, villous-hirsute, Benth.! 1. c. p. 3 51. Dicha- 
lus candicans, E. Mey.! Linn. 7. p. 154. Sphingium velutinum, E. Mey.! 
Comm. p. 67. M. squarrosum, E. & Z.! 1325. Zey.! 2307, 391, 395- 
Has. Cape, Bowie.! Fields by the Zwartkops River, E.g-Z./ Adow, Zeyher. 
Sneeuberg and Uitvlugt, Drege/ Pitestoutsi; beckaane Land, Zeyher / (Herb. 
Bth., Hk., D., Sd.) 
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