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108 LEGUMINOS& (Harv.) [ Aspalathus. 
acute, hairy or silky; spikes oblong, lax, or elongating and sparsely 
lowered ; bracts and bracteoles lanceolate, leaflike ; calyx hairy, its teeth 
lanceolato-subulate, equalling or exceeding the tube; vexillum a third 
longer than the keel ; ovary substipitate, 6-8 ovuled. A: guinquefolia, 
Linn. sp. p. 1002. non Thunb. A, anthylloides, Berg. Fl. Cap. p.211. A. 
procumbens, L. Mey.!in Linn. 7. p. 162. Benth.! 1. ¢. p. 604. E. d& Z. No. 
1384. HL. Mey. ! Comm. p. 40. 
Vaz. 8. sparsiflora ; suberect, woody and much branched ; spikes elongating, * 
laxly many flowered ; calyx segments rather exceeding the tube, often recurved. 
Asp. heterophylla, Thunb. ! in Herb. Upsal, non E. Mey. nec Benth. A. procumbens, 
B. squarrosa, E. Mey. : 
Var. y. Stachyera ; spikes very lax ; leaves linear-lanceolate, 6-7 lines long ; 
calyx segments twice as long as the tube, equalling or exceeding the corolla, A. 
stachyera, E. § Z./ No. 1386. Ononis Lagopus, Thunb.! 
Has. Hills round Capetown, common. Various collectors. Var. 8. Piquetberg, 
£. § Z.! Oliphant’s R., Zeyher / (Herb. Th., Bth., Sd., Hk., D.) 
Stems numerous, 6-12 inches long, spreading or procumbent. Pubescence copi- 
ous and long, rather hairy than silky. Inflyrescence rather variable ; the spikes 
sometimes short, with imbricating flowers, sometimes 3-6 inches long, the flowers 
4 inch apart. FI. yellow, 3 lines. Bracts varying from ovate to lanceolate ; brac- 
teoles more constantly lanceolate. This resembles A. jacobea in habit, but has laxer 
inflorescence, and differs essentially in the calyx teeth and bracteoles and numerous 
ovules. I have examined Thunberg’s original specimen in Hb. Upsal, and find it 
completely to agree with the A. procumbens, E. Mey. The flower examined had 6 
ovules. Var. y. (from Oliphant’s R.) has the aspect of a plant drawn in tall grass ; 
it is slender, pale green, with much longer leaves and calyx-lobes ; but is connected 
through the Piquetberg specimens, with var. 8. 
27. A. heterophylla (E. Mey! non Thunb.); erect, virgate ; leaves scat- 
tered or subternate or tufted, linear-lanceolate, oblong or linear, acute, silky 
or silvery ; spikes lax, oblong or elongate ; bracts linear-lanccolate; bracte- 
oles setaceous ; calyx densely and softly hairy, its segments falcato- 
lanceolate, about equalling the tube ; carina nearly equalling the vex- 
illum; ovary densely hairy, 4-5 ovuled. Benth./ 1. c. p. 60 5. EL. Mey.! 
Comm. p. 40. excl, syn. Thunb. Ononis spicata, Thunb.! Cap. p. 584. A. 
linifolia, Steud.? 
Has. Cape Flats, Drege! Wallich! Klipfontei Zeyher ! No. . Simonsbay, 
Dr, Alexander Prior. (Herb. Th., Sd., me Bth.’D) $58 
Slender, 13-2 feet high, branched from the base ; branches simple, rodlike. Lower 
leaves short, crowded, often densely fascicled, 2-3 lines long and 4 line wide ; upper 
often ternate, 4~5 lines long, 1 line wide ; uppermost generally sca solitary, 
4-7 lines long, 7-1} line wide. The pubescence is nearly as variable. The habit 
_is most like A. virgata, from which this is readily known by its different bracts and 
numerous ovules. I retain the name ‘heterophylla, as it is generally adopted by 
pen sans sufficiently characteristic, though this is not the plant so called by 
28. A. tridentata (Linn. sp. p. 1002. non E. Mey. ; diffusely much 
branched, the twigs slender and virgate ; leaves “SES, Uy feccak 
short, lanceolate, oblong, or sublinear, acute, silky or glabrescent, the 
leaf-tubercle mostly aculeate ; heads small, shortly globose or subum- 
bellate, 5-8 flowered, the involucral bracts broadly lanceolate, acute, 
nearly equalling the calyx, bracteoles filiform ; calyx densely shaggy, its 
segments lanceolate, acute, equalling the tube ; keel much shorter than 
the alz ; ovary 6-ovuled. Thunb. / Fl. Cap. p. 575. Benth.! 1. ¢. p. 606. 
