104 3 _ LEGUMINOS# (Harv.) [ Aspalathus. 
beneath ; flowers 2—4 together, terminal, subsessile, bracts very minute ; 
calyx hairy, its lobes subulate, as long as the tube; petals silky, not 
much longer than the calyx ; ovary downy, 2—-ovuled; legume obliquely 
ovate. A. capitella, Burch. Cat. 7148, Benth. l. ¢. p. 597. 
Has. Mountains near Swellendam, Mundt / in Herb, £.g Z./ Cape Colony, Bur- 
chell. (Herb. Sond., Bth.) : : 
A very slender, depressed fructiculus, 4-6 inches high. Leaves ternate or fasci- 
cled, 2 lines long, 4 line wide, becoming glabrous. Flowers 2 lines long, yellow, 
usually 2 together, but in one of ¥.g'Z.’s specimens, 4. Calyx covered with long 
soft hairs. 
12. A. stenophylla (E. & Z.! 1361); twigs puberulous ; leaves linear, 
mucronulate, acute at each end, incwrved, channelled, strongly ribbed 
and keeled beneath, rigid, becoming glabrous ; flowers 3-4 together, ca- 
pitate, bracts small, subulate ; calyx hirsute, the lobes subulate, distant, 
scarcely longer than the wide tube; petals densely silky; ovary villous, 
2-ovuled. Benth. lc. p. 598. A. canaliculata, E. Mey.! Comm.p. 44. 
Has. Mountain sides near Riv. Zonderende, E. ¢ Z. ! Gnadenthal, Drege! (Herb, 
Benth. Sond.) 
A small, slender, diffuse or procumbent fruticulus. Leaves 4-6 lines long, 4 line 
wide, sometimes slightly spathulate, full green. Flowers few together, at the ends 
of short branchlets, 3-4 lines long, yellow. This is more robust than A. inops, with 
longer and narrower leaves, and larger flowers; and smaller and less rigid than 
A. stellaris. All are closely related to each other. 
13. A. angustissima (E. Mey. Comm. p. 44); “leaves fascicled, very 
natrow-linear, rather obtuse, glabrous ; flowers terminal, solitary or in 
pairs, shortly pedicellate ; segments of the glabrescent calyx acuminate 
subulate; vexillum pubescent.” £. M.1.¢. 
Has. Drakensteensberg, Drege. 
Said to resemble A. stenophylla in habit. Leaves 2 lines long, flat. 
14, A. stellaris (E. & Z.! 1360); branchlets pubescent or villous ; 
leaves oblongo-lanceolate, the lateral incurved, mucronate, scarcely pun- 
gent, rigid, glabrous or thinly villous, flat, midribbed ; flowers capitate ; 
bracts subulate; calyx very hairy, its lobes subulate, as long as the 
tube; petals densely silky ; ovary villous, 2-ovuled. Benth. 1. c. p. 598. 
Has. Hills of Kannaland, near Gauritz R., Swell., Z. ¢ Z./ Also in Bowie’s Coll. 
(Herb. Hk., Sd., D., Bth.) : 
A small but robust shrub, 6-8 inches high, branched near the base Leaves 4-5 
lines long, 1 line wide, the young ones villous. Heads 6-8 flowered ; flowers 3-4 
lines long, fulvous, with purplish tints. Calyx-lobes broadly subulate, the tube — 
. 
15. A. psoraleoides (Benth.! 1. c. p. 598); branchlets pubescent ; 
leaves spathulato-lanceolate, mucronate, puberulous, convex below and 
midribbed, the lateral ones incurved; flowers capitate, bracts roundish, 
obovate, 3-toothed ; calyx pubescent, its lobes ovato-subrotund, obtuse, half 
as long as the tube; corolla silky ; ovary 2—ovuled, villous. Paraspa- 
lathus psoraleoides, Presl. Bot. Bem, p. 134. ‘ 
Has. Cape Colony, Sieber? (Herb. Hook.) 
A small shrub resembling A. stellaris or A. exigua, from both which it differs in 
the bracts and calyx ; and (as suggested by Bentham a well WE 
be an abnormal diseased state of Sitkier spadita ) may, as well as A. truncata, 
