106 LEGUMINOS (Harv.) [Aspalathus. 
acute, rather longer than the tube; petals villous; ovary villous, 
4-ovuled ; legume obliquely oblong, longer than the calyx. Benth.! l.c. 
p. 600. H. Mey.! Comm. p. 39. A. cinerea, Thunb. ! Fl. Cap. p. 575., B. & 
Z.! No. 1366. 
Has. Tulbagh Valley, #. § Z./ Dutoitskloof, Drege! Hott. Holl., Pappe! French 
Hoek, Dr. Alexander Prior / (Herb. Hk., Bth., Thb., Sd., D.) 
A low but woody, much branched, somewhat corymbose bush, a foot or so in 
height. Leaves 2-4 lines long, 1 line broad, densely set, canescent when young, 
afterwards yellowish. Racemes subcapitate, few-flowered. Flowers yellow, densely 
silky. A more slender variety sometimes occurs, less densely branched, with some- 
what longer leaves, and more laxly set flowers. 
2. SERICEZ (Sp. 20-33). 
20. A. villosa (Thunb.! Fl. Cap. p. 574); slender, procumbent ; 
leaves subfasciculate, small, narrow-oblong, obtuse or subacute, silky 
and canescent ; heads few flowered, with linear-oblong bracts ; calyx 
densely silky-villous, its lobes oblongo-lanceolate, acute, scarcely shorter 
than the tube ; legume oblique at base, ovate, long-beaked. Benth. / 
| Lc. p. 601. 
Poe Ce Has. Cederberg, near Honigvalley, Drege’ Bockland, Thunberg! Simonsba 
hd Wed pitts CO. Wright P (Herb. Th., Bth. Hk D.) ; : " 
| ? ul Js Root woody. Stems several, procumbent or ascending or trailing, 3-8 inches 
long, filiform, appressedly silky. Leaves 2 lines long, } line wide, ternate or fas- 
cicled, carnose, the older ones glabrescent. Heads 2~5 flowered. Flowers 3 lines 
| long, the vexillum and keel densely silky. Ovary very hairy, 2 ovuled. 
| 21. A. sericea (Berg. Pl. Cap. p. 212) ; erect, robust, virgate; leaves 
| densely tufted, short, linear-oblong or subcuneate, obtuse, silky and 
pee silvery; heads densely many flowered, ovoid ; bracts minute ; calyx 
a _ campanulate, densely villous, with very short, deltoid teeth ; petals densely 
cee villous, subequal ; legume ovate, hairy, with a long beak. Benth. 1. c. 
a p. 601. A. argentea, Thunb. ! Fl. Cap. p. 576. 
Has, Cede , in various i and Giftberg, Drege! 
Wallich ! (Hot th, D., Bh Hk) a a 
A. strong-growing, somewhat divaricately branched shrub, 3-4 feet high, with 
long, subsimple, densely leafy branches. ‘Leaves very glossy, of thickish substance, 
2: othed with appressed, white or fulvous hairs. Heads of flowers 1-1} inch long, 
2 See aye diameter, fulvous ; the flowers yellow, § lines long. Calyx and petals very 
ss eri (Harv.); erect, virgate ; branches tomentose ; leaves 
Pee -_ternate or t small, oblong or lanceolate, acute, thinly silky-puber- 
ulous or glabrescent ; heads densely many-flowered, ovato-globose ; 
lower bracts stipitate, ovato-lanceolate, upper subulate; calyx densely 
villous, its teeth lanceolate-subulate, equalling the tube ; vertllum and 
ale half as long again as the carina. A. lotoides, E. Mey.! Comm. non 
Tho. Benth. ! 1. ¢. p. 602. 
hae aye , near Ezelsbank, Drege / At the 24 Rivers, Zeyher / Dec. (Hb. 
1-1} foot high, with the habit of A. virgata, to which it is nearly allied ; but the 
pubescence is more scanty, the heads larger and more ovoid, and the flowers con- 
ee with a shorter carina. Heads 14 inch long, 1 inch in diameter, 
vous, 
23. A. virgata (Thunb, ! Fl. Cap. p. 576); erect, robust, shrubby, 
