0: LEGUMINOS& (Harv.) [ Viborgia. 
XXII. VIBORGIA, Thunb, 
Calyx oblique, shortly 5-toothed. All the petals with long, slender 
claws; vexillum ovate; carina incurved or rostrate, longer. Stamens 
monadelphous. Ovary stipitate, few-ovuled. Legume stipitate, ovate or 
rarely oblong, indehiscent, winged on the upper suture, sharp and thin 
along the lower. Benth. / in Hook. Lond. Journ. 3.p.363. Endl,Gen. 6479. 
Rigid, slender, sometimes spiny shrubs, with palmately trifoliolate leaves and yel- 
| low flowers : all natives of the Cape. Name in honour of Eric Viborg, an acute 
Danish botanist. 
TABLE OF THE SPECIES, 
Branches, twigs, and leaves glabrous : 
Branches and twigs virgate, scarcely spiny : 
Leaflets lincar-cuneate, mucronate tei ee (Eee, 
Leaflets obovate ; calyx-teeth blunt ... 1... (3) fusea, 
Branches and twigs divaricating, more or less spiny : 
Racemes few-flowered; legume narrow-oblong, sub- : 
Rg ie es a A ES eda. 
Racemes many-flowered ; twigs spinous ; legume com- 
pressed, winged above... ... ... ... ... ... (6) armata, 
Racemes many-flowered ; legume broadly winged all 
round and crested onthe sides ... ... ... .... (7) tetraptera. 
Branches and twigs more or less silky or pubescent Be, 
Young leaflets thinly silky, older glabrate ; legume nar- 
athena RS ee ere OR ee 2 
Leaflets (and all parts) densely silky-canescent ; legume 
1, V. flexuosa (E. Mey. ! Comm. p. 28); quite glabrous ; branches 
and racemes erect, elongate, lax; leaflets linear-cuneate or linear-oblong, 
subglaucous, mucronate, on longish petioles ; legume? Benth. ! 1. c. p- 363. 
Has. Rocks on the Kamiesberg, between Pedroskloof and Leliefontein, 3000- 
4000f., Drege! (Herb. Bth., D., Hk.) 
A tall, laxly-branched, slender shrub, glabrous in all parts. Twigs virgate. Leaves 
scattered ; the petiole 4~5 lines long ; leaflets as long, 1-1} line wide, turning black- 
ish when dry. Racemes 5~6 inches long, many-flowered. Calyx-teeth acuminate. 
Young legume on a long stipe, winged on the upper margin. 
2. V. obcordata (Thunb. ! Fl. Cap. p. 560); branches virgate, stri- 
ate, silky ; leaflets cuneate-oblong, obtuse or emarginate, the young 
ones thinly silky, the older glabrate ; legume stipitate, turgid, trans- 
versely wrinkled, with a very narrow wing. DC. Prod, 2. p. 136. HZ. 
A slender, slightly-branched shrub, 3-6 fect high, with long, virgate, graceful 
anches ; all the yo parts thinly silky, the eidediplahroscent. Leaves sub-dis- 
tant, turning black in » _Racemes terminal or spuriously lateral, 3-8 inches 
long, densely many-flowered. Calyx-teeth very short, Legume oval, turgid, wrinkled, 
3. V. fusea (Thunb. ! Fl. Cap, p. 560); glabrous ; branches rigid, 
twigs subvirgate ; leaflets obovate or cuneate-oblong, mucronulate or. 
rarely obtuse ; racemes many flowered ; calyx teeth short and blunt ; 
carina subobtuse ; legume stipitate, compressed, with a broad wing along 
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