Aspalathus.) LEGUMINOS (Harv.) 107 
virgate ; leaves ternate or tufted, small, oblong or linear, obtuse or 
acute, silky ; heads oblong or globose, densely many-flowered ; bracts 
orbicular, ovate or obovate, acute; calyx densely villous, its lobes plu- 
mose, subulate, equalling the tube; corolla not much exceeding the 
calyx, and the carina not much shorter than the vexillum ; legume ovate, 
turgid, acuminate. Benth. /1.c. p.603. H.d Z./ No. 1388. A. quinque- 
folia, Thunb. ! Cap. p. 575. 
Var. f. globosa; heads globose, or depressed. Benth. 1. c. 
Var. y. leucocephala; heads globose ; calyx-lobes longer and more plumose ; 
corolla somewhat shorter. A. leucocephala, E. Mey. / Comm. p. 41. Benth.!/ l. c. p. 
602. Zey.! No. 424. 
Has. Picketberg, Stellenb., E.G Z./ Jackall’s River and Piquetberg, Drege! 
Longvalley and Bergvalley, Zeyher / var. y. on the Giftberg, Drege/ (Herb. Th., 
Bth., Sd., Hk., D.) 
A strong-growing, or rarely slender, erect, virgate bush, 1-2 feet high, chiefly 
branched near the base. Leaves 1-2 or 3-4 lines long, }~-4 line broad, sometimes 
almost tomentose, sometimes silky. Heads } inch to 14~2 inches long, dense, and 
very hairy, pale or fulvous; flowers yellow. Var. y. has longer and more plumose 
calyx-lobes than usual, but as Bentham remarks, is connected through var. 8. with 
the common form, from which it does not appear to me to be specifically distinct. 
24, A. jacobea (E. Mey. ! Comm. p. 41); slender, diffuse or ascend- 
ing ; leaves ternate or fascicled, narrow-oblong or linear-lanceolate, acute, 
silky-villous ; spikes oblong, dense; bracts lanceolate, substipitate ; 
bracteoles setaccous ; calyx very hairy, its lobes lanceolate-subulate, plu- 
mose, shorter than the corolla ; vexillum and ale } longer than the 
carina. Benth./.c.p. 603. A. sericea, E. § Z. fide Walp. 
"Has, Cape Flats and Hills round Capetown. Paarlberg and Dutoitskloof, Drege! 
(Herb. Bth., Hk.) 
Root simple ; stems numerous, rigid, ascending or curved, branched chiefly from 
near the base. ‘Leaves 1-2 or 4-5 lines long, green, with lax, but long pubescence, 
variable in shape. Spikes 1-2 inches long, less dense than in A. virgata, with nar- 
rower, longer and more lanceolate bracts ; the bracteoles setaceous. 
25. A. elongata (E. & Z.! No. 1387); erect, virgate, the branches 
tomentose or silky; leaves fascicled or ternate, linear or oblong, obtuse, 
silky pubescent ; spikes loose, elongating, several flowered ; bracts orbicu- 
lar or ovate, acute, bracteoles lanceolate or ovato-lanceolate ; calyx 
densely villous, its teeth lanceolate, shorter than the tube ; vexillum a 
third longer than the carina. A. ascendens, E. Mey. ! Comm. p. 41. 
Benth. 1. c. p. 604.euel. syn. E. § Z.! A. stricta, Steud. 
Has. In sandy and stony places, on mountain sides near Tulbagh, £. GZ! 
Near the Paarl, Drege! Also Zeyher, 434 (424 in Hb. Sond.) from “ Predikstael.” 
(Herb. Bth., Sd., Hk., D.) ; ‘ 
1-2 feet high, slender, erect or ascending. Leaves variable in pubescence and 
size, 1-2, or 3 lines long, } line wide, green or silvery, shorter or loi than the 
internodes. Spikes at first 1-2 inches long, with somewhat imbricating flowers, 
afterwards 3-5 inches long, the flowers } inch apart, alternate on a filiform rachis. 
Bracts shorter than the calyx; the lateral bracteoles leafy, variable in breadth ; by 
which characters and the much shorter and broader calyx teeth this species is easily 
known from A. jacobea. From some states of 4. virgata it is best known by its 
short calyx-lobes. ee 
26. A. lotoides (Thunb. ! Fl. Cap. p- 575); procumbent or ascend- 
ing, rather slender; leaves ternate or fasciculate, linear or lanceolate, 
