Lebeckia.| LEGUMINOS (Harv.) 85 
late-or continuous ; racemes laxly several-flowered ; legumes shortly 
stupitate, broadly oblong, straight, the ventral suture margined, valves 
membranous. ; : 
Has. Sandy places near Constantia, and at the Waterfall, Tulbagh, ZG 2Z./) ) . 5 , 
Gueizius! Near Simon’s Bay, M‘Gillivray! (Herb. Sd., D., Hk.) Van § hyvuke 
Very like LZ. Plukenetiana, but with much broader, straighter and distinctly, oo | 6% 
though shortly stipitate legumes. FE. & Z.’s “L. contaminata” partly belongs to this P| Mate 
“species. Bracts deciduous, equalling the pedicel. Flowers 3-4 lines long. Calyx-teeth ; 
triangular, shorter than the tube. Legume an inch long, 4 lines wide, sub-obtuse 
at each end; the stipes 1-2 lines long. = 
6. L. Candolleana (Walp. Repert. 1, p.607); glabrous, ascending, 
suffruticose ; leaves filiform, secund, sub-erect, acute, distinctly jointed ; 
racemes pedunculate, laxly several-flowered; calyx-teeth triangular, 
shorter than the tube; legumes on long stintes, Linear, straight or sub- 
falcate, flat, the ventral suture with a narrow margin, valves membra- 
nous. L. contaminata, Benth.! non Thunb. E. & Z. 1335, ex parte. Sar- 
cophyllum carnosum, E. Mey.! Comm. p. 32. L. pauciflora, Benth.? non 
EL. & Z. ; | 
' Has. Cape flats and neighbouring districts, common. (Herb. Bth., Hk., D., Sd.) tl : 
A more slender and less densely leafy plant than L. Plukenetiana, with smaller 
flowers, and readily known when in fruit, by the long stalk to the slender legume. 63 
Racemes few or several flowered, lengthening. Flowers 2-2} lines long, pale yellow. 
Pods 1-14 inch long, 1 line wide; the stipes $ inch long or more. This appears to 
be L. contaminata, DC. Prod. 2. p. 136, and is certainly the plant of Bentham and 
partly of E. & Z.! and others; but it is not Thunberg’s plant, which, according to 
his Herbarium, is Aspalathus corymbosa, E. Mey.! and A, tenuifolia, DC! The name 
therefore had better be suppressed altogether. It is impossible to say whether Ben- 
tham’s “L. pauciflora” be a good species or not until the fruit fe I 
- Ld 3 
7.1. grandiflora (Benth.! 1. ¢. p. 357) ; glabrous,/sub-erect, suffruti- 
cose, sub-simple ; leaves filiform, crowded, erect, acute, distinctly 
jointed ; racemes pedunculate, many-flowered; calyx-lobes lanceolate, 
acuminate, sub-falcate, longer than the tube; legume stipitate, linear, flat, 
straight or slightly curved, the ventral suture scarcely margined. Sar- 
cophyllum grandiflorum, E. Mey? (fide Benth. 1. c.) 
ae Cape Colony, Bowie! Witsenberg, Zeyher! Clanwilliam, Drege. (Herb- 
Hk., Sd. 
ies many-stemmed ; stems 6-14 inches high, simple, densely leafy below, 
produced above into a naked peduncle, ending in a many-flowered raceme. Leaves 
2-2 inches long. Racemes 4~8 inches long; the bracts subulate, longer than the 
eyed bracteoles equalling the calyx-tube. Flowers § lines long. Unripe legumes 
only seen. 
: 3. EU-LEBECKIA. (Sp. 8-11.) 
8. L. pauciflora (E.& Z.! 1337) ; glabrous, sub-erect, suffruticose, 
sub-simple ; leaves filiform, sub-secund, erect, acute, distinctly jointed ; 
racemes pedunculate, laxly few-flowered ; calyx-teeth subulate, longer 
than the tube; legume (unripe) stipitate, very slender (terete 1). 
Hab. Sandy places near the Howhoek, Caledon, and in the Langekloof, George, 
Ecklon and Zeyher! Zwarteberge, Witsenberge and Scurfdeberge, Zeyher, No. 377. 
(Herb. Sd., Bth., Hk.) = aOR al ai eae 
14-2 feet high, many stemmed, unbranched. Leaves sub-distant, 3- inches 
‘jointed above the middle, rarely shorter and then without joint. Flowers 
long, erect; the bracts and bracteoles much shorter than the pedicel. 
