94 LEGUMINOS (Harv.) [Aspalathus. 
Has. On the sunny slopes of mountains near Silo, on the Klipplaat River, Tam- 
bukiland, #. & Z.! Mrs. F. W. Barber! Katberg and Stormberg, Drege / (Herb. 
Hk., Bth., Sd., D.) 
A much branched, silky and fulvescent shrub, 1 foot high, with blueish-purple 
flowers, in pedunculate umbel-like 4-6 flowered heads, or in interrupted racemes. 
Lower stipules small. Peduncle 1-1} inch long. Stems 1o~15 inches high. 
7. B. trichodes (Presl. Bot. Bem. p. 47); softly hairy with long hairs ; 
leaflets linear-cuneate, acuminate ; bracts lanceolate, equalling the calyx ; — 
flowers umbellato-capitate ; petals villous, the vexillum not much longer 
than the rest. Benth. /1. c. p. 582. Aspalathus trichodes, E. Mey.! Comm. 
Pp: 38. 
Has. Summit of the Katberg, Drege! (Herb. Bth., Hk., D.) 
A small, depressed shrublet, 6~12 inches long, with short, ascending branches, 
densely clothed with long, pale hairs. Umbels shortly pedunculate, 4-8 flowered. 
Calyx 3 lines long ; pedicel nearly 2 lines. Flowers blueish-purple. The smallest 
and most hairy of the genus ; resembling a Lotononis, 
8. B, viminea (Presl. Bot. Bem. p. 47) ; softly hairy, stems simple, 
virgate ; leaflets oblong-cuneate, mucronate, the upper somewhat lanceo- 
late ; bracts nearly similar; flowers terminal, spicate or lateral, and 
clustered. Benth.l.c. p. 583. Asp. vminea, EB. Mey.! Comm. p. 38. 
aoe between the Omsamcaba and Omsamwubo, Drege! (Herb. Bth., 
Stems 1-2 feet high, simple and rodlike, leafy throughout, from a perennial root. 
Petiole very short, or scarcely any ; leaflets 4-6 lines long, varying from cuneate to 
_ lanceolate, always acute, Calyx-lobes short, triangular. Very similar in habit to 
Lotononis sessilifolia, 
signe LL XXIV. ASPALATHUS, Linn. 
Calyx subequally s5—toothed or 5-cleft, or the two upper lobes shorter 
and broader. Vewillum short-clawed, erect, keeled at back, spreading ; 
carina incurved or rarely straight. Stamens monadelphous, with a split 
tube. Ovary 2-4-8, rarely many ovuled ; style glabrous, incurved. 
Legume obliquely ovate or sublanceolate, subcompressed, acute, one or 
few seeded. Benth.! Lond. Journ. Fs Pi BBR A 
very Many cases numerous additional leaves spring from the axils of the exterior 
three, said hen the leaves are said to be tu or fascicled. The inflorescence is 
properly terminal and racemose or spiked ; but when the flowers are solitary from 
ithin a tubercle, as they seem to be axillary, they are here called lateral. The 
corolla is yellow, or rarely blueish-purple, red or white. have adopted the general’ 
arrangement of Mr. Bentham, who groups the species under twelve tolerably natu- 
ral, but not very absolutely limited ons, as set forth in the following key : 
KEY TO THE SECTIONS OF Aspalathus. 
“Wicvwien lilac poutliade le soli ik i racemose : 
Leaves fat, broall ar narrow : 6 
v8. glabrous or roughly villous, not silky _.. -. (1) Cephalanthe. 
Lys. silky or very softly and closely vies aoe i Sericeze. 
oes Lys. terete or trigonous (linear or subulate) : ; : 
Claws of carina and ale adnate to the staminal tube Synpetale. — 
Claws of carina and ale quite free from Pvaer rg 
