Lebeckia. | LEGUMINOS& (Harv.) 89 
Has. Rocks of Driekoppe, Drege! Dwaka R., Burke. Great Fish R., and Zout 
Rivier, Beaufort, Zeyher ! 397. (Herb. Bth., Hk., Sd.) 
Very rigid, robust, and woody, about a foot high, with patent branches and twigs. 
eee generally shorter than the petiole, very narrow, 2-4 lines long, thinly 
5. VIBORGIOIDES. (Sp. 22-24.) 
_ 22, L. humilis (Thunb.! Prod. p. 122.); sub-glabrous, shrubby, 
rigidly much-branched; leaves sub-sessile, sub-fasciculate, trifoliolate, 
leaflets small, cuneate-oblong, acute or emarginate ; racemes short, laxly 
few-flowered; calyx shortly, but sharply 5 toothed, with rounded inter- 
spaces; legume sessile, linear, turgid, quite glabrous. Thunb. Fl, Cap. 
p. 562. L. fasciculata, Benth. Lond. ! Journ. 3. p. 361. 
Has. Bockland, Thunberg ! Cape Colony, Bowie! (Herb. Th., Hk.) 
A small, densely-branched, woody bush, 6-12 inches high ; the younger parts 
minutely appresso-puberulent, the older sub-glabrous. Leaves on very short peti- 
oles, the leaflets 1—3 lines long, quite or nearly glabrous. Racemes 1-3 inches long, 
laxly several flowered. Calyx 1 line long, very oblique. Petals on long claws. Legume 
6-8 lines long, many-seeded. Turns black in drying. 
23, L. sessilifolia (Benth, ! 1. c. p. 362); robust, shrubby, rigidly 
much-branched; twigs silky-pubescent, leaves on very short petioles, 
leaflets obovate or cuneate-oblong, thickish, glabrous or nearly so; racemes 
short, dense, secund ; calyx campanulate, puberulous, its teeth lanceolate, 
acute, nearly equalling the tube ; legume sessile, oblong, acute, turgid, 
glabrescent. Acanthobotrya sessilifoha, E. § Z.1 No. 1344. Viborgua gran- 
diflora, E. Mey. Comm.p. 31. 
Has. Calcareous hills between Breede and Duivenhoeksrivier, Z. ¢ Z./ Caledon, 
Mundt. ! (Herb. Sd., Hk.) Me 
A thick-stemmed, woody, small bush, turning blackish in drying, the younger parts 
minutely and appressedly puberulous, the older mostly glabrous. Twigs becoming 
naked and rigid, but scarcely spiny. Leaflets 2-3 lines long, or a little longer, of 
thickish, fleshy texture. Racemes 1-1} inch long, densely several-flowered. Calyx 
4 lines long. Petals glabrescent, their claws shorter than the calyx-teeth. It turns 
blackish in drying. 
94. L. Bowieana (Benth. ! 1. c. p. 362); robust, shrubby, rigidly 
much-branched ; twigs silky-pubescent ; leaves sub-sessile, sub-fascicu- 
late ; leaflets small, cuneate-oblong or obovate, densely cano-pubescent on 
each side ; racemes short, few-flowered ; calyx widely tubular, quite gla- 
brous, shortly, but sharply 5-toothed, with rounded interspaces ; legume 
sessile, oblong, acute, turgid, quite glabrous. 
; Colony, Bowie! Zeyher, No. 2345. (Herb. Hk., Sd., Bh.) 
ceding oe pest with sane sub-virgate branches, beset with short ramuli, 
and somewhat crowded or tufted leaves. Petioles very short. Leaflets 2 lines long. 
Flowers 1-3 at the ends of the branches, nodding. Calyx turning black in drying, 
2-2} lines long. Petals glabrous, with longish claws. Keel shortly rostrate, obtuse. 
Young legume turgid. 
(Doubtful Species. ) 
L. marginata (E. Mey. Comm. p. 3 5); ‘silky-canescent; leaves 
trifoliolate, leaflets spathulate, margined ; racemes short, lax ; calyx 
5-fid ; vexillum pilose externally.” #. Mey. a Baga 
Has. With ZL. cinerea, Drege. (Unknown to me.) : ple Poe 
The saat distributed under this name by Ecklon (94.10) is merely C. cytisoides. 
