92  -LEGUMINOS& (Harv.) — [Buchenroedera. 
A very diffuse, laxly-branched, spiny bush ; the twigs horizontally patent or re- 
flexed, rigid, and mostly tipped with spines. Foliage always pale, quite glabrous, 
except in var. 8. Flowers small, pale yellow. Calyx-teeth remarkably tapering. 
Wing of the legume variable, sometimes wide, sometimes comparatively narrow. 
7. V. tetraptera (E. Mey. ! Comm. p. 29) ; glabrous ; branches and 
twigs patent, rigid, flexuous or divaricate, subspinescent ; leaves obovate- 
oblong or cuneate, obtuse or mucronate ; calyx-teeth acute; carina 
subrostrate ; legume broady winged on the upper and under edges, and 
wing-crested on the sides. Benth.! l.c. p. 365. Zey.! No. 2299. 
Var f. angustifolia; leaflets mostly linear. V. tenuifolia, E. Mey./ Linn. 7. p. 
153. E. § Z.! 1350, ex pte. 
Has. Berg River, at the Paarl, Riebeckskasteel, and between Langevalei and 
Olifant’s River, &c. Drege! Cape District, Bowie. Breede River and R. Zonderende, 
Zeyher! B. Mouth of the Breede River, Mundt.! (Herb. Bth., Hk., D., Sd.) 
Rigidly much-branched, flexuous ; readily known, when in fruit, by its 4-winged 
legumes, the face of the valves rising in the middle into a sharp, wing-like crest ; 
and both margins, ventral and carinal, being broadly winged. The leaves turn dark 
in drying. 
XXIII. BUCHENROEDERA, E. & Z. 
_ Calyx campanulate, subequally 5-fid. Petals villous, on long claws ; 
the carina roundish, short and blunt. Stamens monadelphous. Ovary 
8-10 ovuled. Legume obliquely ovate, somewhat turgid, 1-3 seeded. 
Benth! Lond. Journ. 7. p. 580. 
Densely silky or silvery shrubs or suffrutices, with petiolate and stipulate, "3-folio- 
late leaves, and white or purple flowers. The floral characters are nearly those of 
Aspalathus, but the presence of stipules, and the distinctly petiolate leaves indicate 
a group naturally separable. The legume is very short, scarcely 1} times as long as 
the calyx. The generic name is in honour of W. L. V. Buchenroeder, a South African 
botanist, and friend of Ecklon and Zeyher. 
“TABLE OF THE SPECIES. 
Stipules leaflike, equalling or exceeding the petiole ; flowers white or yellowish : 
Leaflets cuneate or obovate : 
closely silky ; bracts ovate, longer than the calyx ... (1) holosericea. 
loosely silky ; bracts short ; leaflets minutely apiculate (2) Meyeri. 
closely silky ; bracts short ; leafl. recwrvo-mucronate ... (3) multiflora. 
Leaflets linear-lanceolate or linear-acuminate : 
_ loosely silky ; spikes cylindrical, dense SS ics oe Cy epleatas 
- closely silky ; wmbel many flowered ; fl. pedicellate ... (5) umbellata. 
Stipules leaflike, equalling or exceeding the petiole ; flowers purple. 
closely silky ; much branched ; bracts shorter than the calyx (6) tenuifolia. 
_ loosely silky, depressed or decumbent ; bracts equalling the cal. (7) trichodes. 
Stipules none or inconspicuous ; stems simple, virgate ... ... (8) viminea, 
1. B. holosericea (Benth. ! in Lond. Journ. 7. p. 581) ; closely silky ; 
leaflets cuneate, apiculate; heads of flowers dense, the ovate or oblong 
bracts longer than the very villous calyx ; all the petals villous, of nearly 
equal length ; legume densely villous. Benth. /—Aspalathus holosericea, 
L. Mey. ! Comm. p. 37. 
Has, Caffraria, near Omgaziana and Morley, Drege ! . Bth. 
A slender, virgate shrub, the branches vainratibaroul og ro ref every part 
fulvous with closely-appressed, short, silky hairs. Petiole 1-2 lines ; leaflets 3-4 
lines long. Stipules leaflike, 14 as long as the petiole, Bracts 2 lines long, often 
equally broad. —— 
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