88 LEGUMINOS (Harv.) [Lebeckia. 
times attenuate, obtuse or acute at point, sometimes narrow-cuneate. Racemes several 
inches long ; flowers 8-10 lines long, bright yellow, on spreading, longish pedicels. 
Legumes deflexed, 14 inch long, mucronulate, terete, 1-14 lines in diameter. 
18. L. sericea (Thunb.! Prod. p. 122); silky-canescent, shrubby, 
ramulose ; leaves on long petioles, trifoliolate ; leaflets linear-oblong or 
sub-cuneate, acute at base; racemes secund, many-flowered; calyx 
widely campanulate, silky, its teeth shortly subulate, with rounded inter- 
spaces ; vexillum and keel silky near the point; legume sub-terete, 
silky-canescent, when old glabrate. Bth./1.¢. p. 360. Thunb. ! Fl. Cap. 
p. 562. L. decipiens, and L. flexuosa, EZ. Mey.! Crotalaria angustifolia, 
Jacq. Hort. Schoenb. t. 2 19. 
Has. Karroo, near Mieren’s Kasteel ; rocks on the Kwek River ; Zilverfontein 
and Platberg, Drege! (Herb. Th., Hk., Bth., Sd., D.) 
A smaller, more densely branched, more silky or silvery shrub than L. cytisoides, 
with shorter racemes and smaller flowers. Leaflets t-14 inch long, 1-2 lines wide, 
obtuse or acute, generally much narrowed to the base. Petioles 14-3 inches long, 
generally exceeding the leaflets. Flowers 4~5 lines long, deep yellow. 
19. L. multiflora (E. Mey. ! Comm. p. 34); silky-canescent, shrubby, 
ramulous; leaves on long petioles, trifoliolate, leaflets narrow-linear ; 
raceme secund, many-flowered; calyx campanulate, silky, its teeth 
triangular-acuminate, short ; vexillum and keel thinly silky near the 
point, or glabrous; legume thinly silky or quite glabrate. Benth. / l. c. 
p. 360. L. decutiens, L, canescens, LH. Mey. ! Comm. p. 34. L. angustifolia, 
EL. Mey. Acanthobotrya angustifolia, E. & Z.! 1346. . 
Var. B. glabrata; thinly silky-canescent or glabrate ; raceme elongate, lax ; calyx 
glabrescent ; legume quite glabrous. L. decutiens, B. glabrata, E, Mey. l.c. 
Has. Mouths of the Gariep; Olifant’s River, and between Holrivier and Mieren 
Kasteel, Drege.! Mr. Wyley./ 8. Karroo, between Goedman’s Kraal and Kaus, 
Drege! Sands between Berg R. and Zwartland, £. & Z. (Herb. Bth., Hk., Sd., D.) 
Very near Z. sericea, but smaller in all parts, with much smaller flowers, and nar- 
rower leaves. Leaflets 1 inch long, }—} line wide, in a. canescent, in 8. nearly gla- 
brate. Flowers about 3 lines long. Pods uncial. 
20, L.mi ylla(E. Mey.! Comm, p.155); silky-canescent, shrubby; 
twigs rigid, at length spine-tipped ; leaves on short petioles, trifoliolate, 
leaflets small, linear-obovate or oblong, folded ; calyx villoso-pubescent, 
its teeth very short and blunt; vexillum thinly pubescent near the 
point; legume hairy. Benth.!1.c.p. 361. Aspalathus ceerulescens, E. Mey.! 
Comm. p. 54. Krebsia argentea, E. & Z.! 1286, 
Has. Rocky situations, Camdebosberg and Klein Bruintjesh Drege! nu 
the Klipplaat R., Drege! E.§ Z.! (Herb. Bth., Hk., D. Sd) me isi 
_A small, woody, rigid, and densely branched bush, with thinly silky twigs and 
silvery leaves. Leaflets }—} inch long, on petioles half that length, }-4 line wide. 
The habit is that of a Buchenroedera. The calyx teeth are remarkably short and 
sometimes nearly obsolete ; the calycine pubescence is rufescent. 
_21, L, spinescens (Harv.); silky-canescent, at length sub-glabrescent, 
divaricately branched, rigid, spiny; leaves on longish petioles, trifolio- 
late, leaflets small, oblong-cuneate or linear, folded, canescent-puberu- 
lous; calyx thinly silky or glabrescent, its teeth triangular-acute ; vexil- 
lum silky above; legume sub-terete, glabrescent. ZL. armata, LE. Mey.! 
Comm. p. 35. Benth.! 1. ¢, p. 361, non Thunb., nec. E. & Z. * 
