Aspalathus. | LEGUMINOS (Harv.) 105 . 
16. A. anthylloides (Linn. Sp. p. 1002) ; branches villous or tomen- 
tose, erect, virgate ; leaves crowded, oblongo-lanceolate, acute, the lateral 
oblique, softly hairy, becoming glabrescent, flat, veiny or veinless ; 
Jlowers densely capitate, with lanceolate-subulate bracts; calyx villose or 
hirsute, its lobes lanceolate-subulate, longer than the tube ; petals silky 
villous; ovary villous, 2-ovuled; legume obliquely ovate, shorter than 
the calyx. Benth. 1. c. p. 599. Thunb.! Fl. Cap. p. 574. £.§Z.! No. 1358. 
Var. &. Kraussiana; branches tomentose (not villous) ; leaves thicker, less hairy, 
and more distinctly nerved; the upper ones 3-nerved. A. Kraussiana, Meisn./ in 
Hook. Lond. Journ. 2. p. 69. Benth.! l.c. 
Has. Common in the mountains of Cape, Stellenbosch, and Swellendam Districts. 
Thunberg! Eck. § Zey.! W.H.H., §c. B. Klein River, Swellendam, Krauss, Bowie, 
Thom, §c. (Herb. Th., Bth., Hk., D., Sd.) 
1-2 feet high, chiefly branched near the base; the branches erect and somewhat 
virgate. Leaves 6-8 lines long, 14-2 lines wide, variable in pubescence and in the 
degree of prominence of the nerves and veins, when dry. Flowers bright yellow, in 
large dense heads, surrounded by somewhat longer leaves. Thunberg’s original spe- 
cimens in Hb. Upsal, as well as Z. § Z.’s in Hb. Sond. belong to the form called 
Kraussiana, which is scarcely distinct from the ordinary varieties found on the 
Capetown range. 
17. A. linearifolia (DC. Prod. 2. p. 142); branches softly villous ; 
leaves ternate, lincar-lanceolate, acute at each end, midribbed, shortly 
villous, at length glabrous; flowers densely capitate, bracts ovato-lan- 
ceolate, silky-villous ; calyx softly villous, its lobes lanceolate, more than 
twice as long as the tube; vexillum pubescent, scarcely longer than the 
calyx or the pubescent carina ; ovary villous, 4-ovuled. Benth. / 1, c. 
p. 599. A. linifolia, H. Mey.! Linn. 7 p. 162. E. & Z.! No. 1370. 
Has. Tulbaghskloof, Worcester, £. & Z.! Berg Rivier, Nieuwekloof and Du- 
toitskloof, Drege/ &c. Oct. (Herb. Bth., Sd., D. Hk.) 
A tall, much branched bush, 2-3 feet high, with flavescent branches. Leaves 
1-1} inch long, scarcely a line wide, pale green, flat and patent. Heads many- 
flowered, fulvous, subtended by fulvous and silky bracts, half as long as the calyces. 
Flowers 3-4 lines long, tawny yellow. Legume scarcely longer than the calyx. 
18. A. rugosa (Thunb.! Fl. Cap. p. 574); branchlets canescent, pu- 
berulous; leaves linear-sublanceolate, the lateral incurved, depressedly 
downy, then glabrous, acute, midribbed ; flowers shortly racemose, with 
small linear bracts; calyx appressedly pubescent, its lobes triangular- 
acute, about equalling the tube ; petals silky ; ovary pubescent, 4-5 ovuled; 
legume silky, obliquely ovato-lanceolate, turgid, nearly thrice as long 
as the calyx. A. Plukenetiana, E. § Z.! En. No. 1371. Benth, 1. ¢. p. 600. 
Zey. No. 430. 
_ Has. Near the Hex ante Thunberg! ‘Tulbagh Valley, Worcester, £. g Z.! 
. Th. ;; Hk. D..Sd. 
ereeemers mene": erect acm 3-4 feet high, with pale foliage. Leaves ternate, 
4 inch long, 1-1} lines wide, densely set. Racemes short, 6-8 flowered. Flowers 
pale yellow. There are excellent specimens of this plant in Herb. Thunb., agreeing 
in all respects with those collected by recent travellers. 
19. A. cystisoides (Lam. Dict. 1. p. 392); branches villous; leaves. 
oblongo-lanceolate or subspathulate, the lateral recurvo-falcate, pungent- 
mucronate, rigid, appressedly canescenti-villous, becoming glabrous ; 
flowers racemulose, with setaceous bracts ; calyx villous, tts lobes lanceolate, 
