Aspalathus. | LEGUMINOS& (Harv.) 103 
than the carina; ovary 4—-ovuled, villous; legume shortly ovate, acu- 
minate. A. conferta, Benth. lc. p. 596. 
Has. Mountain sides near River Zonderende, Swell., E.G Z./ Zwarteberg, 
Mundt! Also collected by Bowie and Burchell, Cat. No. 6956. (Herb. Hk., Sd.) 
An erect, robust, much branched shrub, 1-1} feet high. Leaves 4—5 lines long, 
1—t4 broad, the lateral oblique; veins inconspicuous or faint. Calyx-lobes nearly as 
long as the orange corolla. This resembles some of the narrow-leaved forms of 
A. securifolia, but the leaves are still narrower and longer, and less coriaceous ; the 
calyx-lobes longer and flowers deeper coloured. ; 
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8. A. truncata (E. & Z.! No. 1359); branches tomentose; leaves 
cuneate-oblong, acute and mucronulate, glabrous, shining, plurinerved 
and veiny below; flowers capitate, the floral leaves and bracteoles 
broadly obovate, mucronate, petiolate, concave ; calyx-lobes quite 
triangular-acuminate, scarcely longer than the pubescent, obconic tube ; 
petals silky, the vexillum longer than the carina ; ovary 4-ovuled ; le- 
gume cultrate, acute, strigillose. Penwa, No. 1220, Drege! Zey. No. 425. 
. Has. Witsenberg, Zeyher / Mountain sides near the Waterfall, Tulbagh, 2. ¢Z./ 
S. Africa, Drege! (Herb. Bth., Sd., Hk.) 
A very robust and rigid dwarf shrub, with pale green or yellowish foliage. Leaves 
5~7 lines long, 1~2 lines wide, densely crowded, slightly concave. Heads of flowers 
ending the branches, 1-14 inch in diameter, pale yellow. The specimens are more 
or less altered by insect punctures ; but one from Zeyher in Herb. Sond. has some 
seemingly normal flowers; and these have the bracts and calyx-lobes which mark 
the species. In the diseased specimens the bracts are more expanded, but the calyx- 
lobes not materially altered. By Bentham all are referred to A. exigua. 
9. A. myrtillefolia (Benth. 1. c.p. 597); branchlets rufo-pubescent ; 
leaves small, obovato-spathulate, mucronate, immarginate, glabrous ; 
flowers 3-4, subcapitate ; bracteoles very minute, toothlike ; calyx glabrous, 
its lobes falcato-lanceolate, very acute, longer than the wide tube; pe- 
tals minutely downy; ovary glabrous, 2-ovuled. 
Has. Cape Colony, Bowie/ (Herb. Hook., Benth.) ; 
A minute (probably alpine), rigid and woody, depressed shrub, 6-8 inches broad, 
glabrous, except on the branches and petals. Leaves 2~3 lines long, 1-1} wide, 
spreading, glossy, pale green, midribbed, dotted. Flowers 2-3 lines long, pale yel- 
low. Lowest calyx-lobe narrower and longer than the rest. 
10. A. marginata (Harv.); branchlets canescent ; leaves obovate or 
ovate, spathulato-petiolate, acute or mucronulate, coriaceous, margined 
and ribbed, puberulous, becoming glabrous, somewhat concave, the la- 
teral oblique; flowers few, capitate, subsessile ; bracteoles very minute, 
setaceous; calyx appressedly downy, its lobes subulate, as long as the 
tube ; petals silky, twice as long as the calyx; ovary villous, 2—-ovuled. 
A. exigua, Benth.! 1. ¢ p. 597, non E. § Z. Z 
Has. On the Hott. Holl. berge ; Babylonische Tooren and Zwarteberge, Zeyher / 
2346. (Herb. Hook., Sd.) 
A depressed, subtrichotomously branched, small woody shrub. Leaves crowded, 
ternate, 2-24 lines long, 14-2 lines wide, tapering at base into a more or less dis- 
tinct petiole and generally mucronate ; the margin thickened, and the midrib and 
often two lateral ribs prominent below. Flowers small, hidden among the leaves at 
the ends of the branches, 3-4 together. as ae ae 
- 11, A. inops (Eck. and Zey.! 1362); slender; branches pubescent ; 
leaves a, arpa pubescent or glabrous, acute, rigid, one-nerved 
