400 Ge LeaumiNosa (Harv) — [Aapalathus. 
Leaves linear, fleshy, blunt or mucronulate ; carina 3 
straight and blunt... ... ... ... ... ...  ... (120) pedicellata. 
Leaves tufted, glabrous or silky; fl. 1-2, sessile among 
the uppermost leaves : 
Nearly glabrous, or minutely and thinly canescent: 
_Calyx-lobes longer than the tube or equalling it, 
subulate ; leaves acute: 
Lys. puberulous, the floral shorter than the 
calyx, ovary silky ... ... ... ... ... (121) retroflexa. 
Lys. glabrous, the floral equalling the calyx ; 
ovary glabrous... ... ... ... ... ... (122) galioides. 
Cal.-lobes longer than the tube, lanceolate, with 
reflexed margins. ... (123) marginalis. 
Cal.-lobes shorter than the tube ; leaves acute, 
subpungent ; petals pubescent ... ... ... (124) exilis. 
Canescent ; leaves white and silky ...°... ... ... (128) rubens, 
Leaves tufted, glabrous or downy ; fl. pedicellate, 2-3 or ‘ 
more in a short raceme; branches often spiny : 
Calyx-lobes short, triangular, not pungent : 
Unarmed ; lvs. minute, obtuse... ... ...... (133) vermiculata. 
Spinous ; lvs. slender, filiform ... ... ... ... (132) ferox. 
Calyx-lobes pungent or needle-pointed : 
Lvs. subulate-acicular, pungent, very patent, $-} 
inch long or more: 
Erect, robust; vexillum pilose on the ridge, 
other petals glabrous ww. ww. ww... (126) astroites. 
Spreading, more slender ; vexillum and carina 
silky ; (fl small, pale yellow)... ... ...... (127) vulnerans. 
Lvs. terete, pungent, short or very short, 1~3 lines long: 
Spinescent ; divaricately much branched : 
Leaves slender, 2-3-4 lineslong ... ... (128) pungens. 
Leaves short and fleshy, 1-1} lines long ... (130) acuminata. 
Unarmed or scarcely spinescent, divaricate ; lvs. 
Short 2. ine RS Sas ae eae 
Lvs. linear-terete, obtuse or mucronulate, not pungent 
fl. bright yellow... 2. 1. 1. 1... o (129) genistoides, 
Leaves tufted or ternate, silky and canescent; flowers sub- 
sessile, in a terminal spike: 
— ternate, lanceolate, acute, flat; cal.-teeth ovate, 
Lys. tufted. subulate, pungent; cal.-teeth a 
Poni Wei Wie Vee vee Ss ee sc. see CGS) ormata. 
Lvs. solitary or subsolitary, glabrescent, uncial or longer ; 
anes few-flowered : a 
xillum pubescent, as long as the pubescent carina (136 corymbosa. 
Vexillum puberulous, longer than the much arched wet 
glabrous carina Geb Ne SE see see al. (997) -Comuifolia, 
12, Pedunculares. Leaves ternate or fascicled (rarely solitary), linear-subulate 
or flat. Flowers at the end of a long, capillary peduncle (or leafless ramulus), soli- 
tary or 2-3 together. (Sp. 138-148.) 
Leaves slender, terete or semiterete, nearly glabrous, not pungent : 
Ovary sessile, 6-ovuled : 
Procumbent ; lvs. compressed, acute at each end (138) capillaris, 
Ascending ; lvs. linear-filiform, subterete ; pedune. 
3-3 ROWROR sek tik BS (139) pedunculata. 
Ovary stipitate, 2-4 ovuled : 
Lvs, solitary ; bracts minute, subremote toothlike (140) nudiflora, _ 
Lvs. tufted ; bracts leajlike, equalling cal. tube (141) bracteata, — 
Leaves slender, terete (and the whole shrub) densely silky-canescent : 
Lvs. acute ; fl. subtended by slender bracts ; legume 
= OVALE... ... 0s. sie “ass abe case vee ves «se (148) longipes, 
- Lvs. blunt ; fl. naked; legume lanceolate ... .., (146) nivea, 
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