Hypocalyptus| LEGUMINOS& (Harv.) 81 
ate ; stipules semi-cordate-ovate ; flowers numerous in a longish-spiked 
_ raceme ; bracts obliquely ovate ; legume 2-3 seeded, sub-incurved, villous. 
Has. On plains in Graaf Reynet, Mrs. FP. W. Barber. (Herb. Hk.) 
Spreading, 1-14 foot high ; branches ascending, alternately divided. The whole 
plant is covered with stalked glands, mixed with soft hairs. Leaflets 3-4 lines long, 
2 lines wide, flat, viscid. Flowers small, yellow. Spikes 3 inches long. 
deflexed, 4 lines long. A more branching and woody plant than M. cernwum, but 
glandular, with shorter and broader pods and distinctly obcordate leaflets. 
11. M. stipulatum (Harv.); robust, suffruticose, unarmed, densely 
covered with swb-sessile glands, and hirsute ; stems hirto-tomentose; leaf- 
lets linear, cuneate at base, and hairy ; stipules foliaceous, semi-hastate, 
nearly equalling the petiole ; flowers ambricated, in a short, dense, pseudo- 
spike ; bracts lanceolate, rather shorter than the deeply-parted, densely- 
glandular calyx; legumes lanceolate, erect, 2-3 seeded, glandular and 
pubescent. Ononis stipulata, Thunb. / Cap. p. 585. 
Has. Hex River, Thunberg! (Herb. Th., Holm.) 
Stems strong and woody at base, erect or curved, 12-14 inches high, densely leafy, 
branched chiefly near the root. Branches with short, but patent and loose pubes- 
cence. Stipules nearly half inch long, the uppermost largest, 2 lines wide. Leaf- 
lets 7-8 lines long, 14 line wide, often infolded. Colour pale green. Spikes cylin- 
drical, very dense. A well-marked plant, not found since Thunberg’s time. 
( Doubtful Species. ) 
M. parviflorum (Benth. !1. ¢. p. 351); “divaricately much-branched, 
spiny, scarcely glandular, sub-glabrous” (taigs velvetty-canescent) ; “ sti- 
pules and bracts semi-cordate, minute ; calyx glabrescent-visei ulous;” — 
legume unknown. d 
Has. Dwaka R., Burke § Zeyher, 392. (Herb. Bth., Hk., Sd., D.) _ 
I cannot distinguish this satisfactorily from Jf. candicans, The half ripe legumes 
are straight and villous, and the twigs constantly hoary, except where the indument 
has been casually abraded, . 
M. viscidulum (Steud.); “unarmed, glandularly-pubescent, green ; 
leaflets oblong-cuneate ; spikes few-flowered ; bracts equalling the calyx- 
tube; legumes curved, glandular-scabrid.” £. Mey. Comm. p. 66. 
Has. Sandy hills near Ebenezer, Drege. (Unknown to me. ) 
M. canaliculatum (Benth.) ; “unarmed, viscoso-scabrid ; leaflets 
linear, channelled ; spikes short ; bracts lanceolate, equalling the calyx- 
tube.” EH. Mey. Comm. p. 66. 
Has. Karroo, 2000-2500 £., Drege. (Unknown to me.) 
XIX. HYPOCALYPTUS, Thunb. 
Calyx widely campanulate, shortly 5-toothed, hollowed at base. 
Verillum roundish, reflexed, longer than the ale and carina. Stamens 10, 
monadelphous. Ovary lanceolate, many ovuled. Legume linear, flat, 
the upper suture thickened, many-seeded. Benth./ in Hook. Ld. Journ. 3. 
p. 354. Endl. Gen. No. 6477. a se 
A glabrous, densely | hrub, with palmately trifoliolate, stipulate leaves, anc 
sre lions N gid stent under, and xadvrta, to veil ; not applicable to the 
genus as now limited. Thunberg included under this name the species of Podalyria, 
which have large bracts under which the young flowers are hidden or veiled. 
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