84 = LEGUMINOS& (Harv.) [ Lebeckia. 
or oblong; calyx ample, puberulous, the tube from a turbinate base, cam- 
panulate, the teeth deltoid-cuspidate; legume quite glabrous. 
Has. Zooloo Country, Miss Owen! (Herb. T.C.D.) 
A rigid, nearly naked, spiny shrub, with the habit of L. pwngens and L. psiloloba, 
but with much larger flowers than either, and a very different calyx. | Leaves sub- 
sessile, 4-5 lines long, 2 lines wide, puberulous, thick, sub-coriaceous. Flowers ra- 
cemose, on rigidly pungent, robust rachides ; pedicels bibracteolate near the base, 
shorter than the calyx. Calyx sub-contracted and rugulose at base, then widened ; 
its teeth sub-equal, deltoid, suddenly tapering into a subulate acumination. Corolla 
7-8 lines long ; the keel bluntly rostrate, longer than the erect vexillum. - Legume 
(half grown) shortly stipitate, flat, several seeded, perfectly glabrous. The flowers 
are nearly as large as in L. cytisoides. 
2. L. pungens (Thunb. Cap. p. 561); divaricately much branched, 
spiny ; twigs thinly tomentoso-canescent; leaves few and distant, unifo-— 
liolate, obovate or oblong ; calyx-teeth very short and broad; legume 
albo-tomentose. Benth. l.¢.p. 356. Stiza erioloba, E. Mey.! Comm. p. 31. 
Has. Near Olifant’s River and in Cannaland, Thunberg/ Near Klaarstroom, at 
the foot of the Great Zwarteberge, Drege! (Herb. Thb. Bth.) 
A very rigid, nearly leafless, much branched, densely ramulose bush ; the ramuli 
1-2 inches long, patent, very pungent, all the younger parts thinly tomentulose. 
Known from the following, which is much commoner, by its pubescence and tomen- 
tose legumes. _ : 
3. L. psiloloba (Walp.! Linn.13. p. 478) ; divaricately much branched, — 
spiny; glabrous; leaves few and distant, mostly unifoliolate, obovate 
or oblong; calyx-teeth very short and broad; legume membranaceous, 
quite glabrous. Benth. 1. c. p. 356. Stiza psiloloba, E.Mey! Comm. p. 32 
Acanthobotrya pungens, E. & Z. 1340. Spartium cuspidosum, Burch. — 
vol. 1. p. 348. Genista cuspidosa, DC. Prod. 2. p. 147. 
Has. Near Uitenhage, #. § Z.! Alexander-Prior! §¢. (Herb. Bth., D., Sd., Hk.) 
A rigid, spiny, nearly leafless bush, closely resembling the preceding, but with 
nearly glabrous twigs, and perfectly glabrous legumes. Flowers yellow, nodding, 
laxly racemulose, on spine-tipped branchlets. Legumes oblong, flat, 8-14 lines long, 
2 lines wide. 
_ 2, PHYLLODIASTRUM. (Sp. 4-7.) 
4. L. Plukenetiana (E. Mey.! Comm. p. 33, excl. syn, Lam. & Willd.); 
glabrous, decumbent or ascending, suffruticose ; leaves filiform, secund, 
patent, the older deflexed, acute, continuous or obscurely articulate ; 
racemes laxly many-flowered ; legume sub-sessile, linear, falcate, flat, the 
ventral suture margined, valves membranous. Benth. i. c. p. 356. 
: Var. 8. brachycarpa; leaves # inch long ; racemes few-flowered ; legume shortly 
linear, sessile, 6~7 lines I , nearly straight. Zey. No. 378. 
Has. Hex River, Drege! Camps Bay, Ecklon. Sandy places at the foot of Table 
Mountain, Dr. Pappe (115), 8. at Klipfontein, Zey./ (Herb. Bth., D., Sd., Hk.) 
Root deeply descending. Stems several from the crown, spreading, 1~2 feet long, 
sub-simple or branched ; branches curved, virgate. Leaves 1-1} inch long, turned 
to one side, pale green, 2-4 inches, 10-20 flowered; bracts minute, pedi- 
cels shorter than the calyx. Flowers yellow, often secund. ‘ Legumes 1-14 inch 
long, linear, curved, acute at each end, sessile or minutely — A. is more — 
slender in all parts, with smaller flowers, shorter leaves, and much shorter legumes. 
5. L. Meyeriana (E. & Z.! 1339); glabrous, decumbent or ascending, 
sulfruticose ; leaves filiform, secund, patent or deflexed, acute, articu- 
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