Aspalathus. | _LEGUMINOSE (Harv.) 109 
A. argentea, var. glabriuscula, EH. Mey.! Comm. p. 43. A, pilosa, E. & Z.! 
No. 1381. fide Drege. Zeyher, No. 2338. 
Haz. Cederberg, on the Giftberg, Drege! Tulbaghskloof and Vogelvalley, Zey. 
No. 423. Cape Flats, W.H.H., gc. Zwartland, L£. & Z.! Under Table Mount., Dr. 
Pappe! (Herb. Th., Bth., Sd., Hk., D.) 
A much branched, spreading bush, 3-4 feet in diameter, with twiggy, rodlike 
branches directed to all sides. Spine under the leaf-tuft 3-3 line long, rarely want- 
ing. Pubescence scanty on the leaves ; very dense, long and fulvous on the bracts, 
calyces and petals. Flowers 3-4 lines long. Zeyher's 2338, in Herb. Sond. has 
blunt leaf-tubercles, and very small, tufted leaves on its lower twigs ; but in other 
characters is like some of Drege’s specimens. 
29. A. argentea (Linn. sp. p. 1002? non Thunb.) ; divaricately 
much branched, the twigs recurved ; leaves ternate or tufted, small, nar- 
row-obovate or oblong, silky or glabrescent, the leaf-tubercle sharply 
aculeate ; heads small, shortly globose or subumbellate, few flowered ; 
invol. bracts obovate-orbicular, or subovate, much shorter than the calya ; 
calyx densely shaggy, its segments lanceolate, acute, shorter than the 
tube ; keel not much shorter than the ale; ovary 5-8 ovuled. Benth / 
lc. p. 607. A. argentea, a, H. Mey. Comm. p. 43. A.staurantha, E.& Z.! 
No. 1383. Burchell, Cat. 7455- . 
Has. Sandy hills in the Cape district, Drege! Zwartland, FE. § Z./ Klipfontein, 
Zeyher, 422. Gnadendal, Dr. Roser! (Herb. Bth., Hk., Sd., D.) 
‘A more densely branched, divaricate and less virgate bush than A. tridentata, which 
it much resembles and from which it chiefly differs in the shorter and broader bracts. 
The pubescence is too variable to afford a character. Both occur in the same dis- 
trict, and I fear are scarcely sufficiently distinct. 
30, A. ferruginea (Herb. Banks.) ; robust, rigid, divaricately much 
branched ; branchlets often spine-tipped ; leaves tufted or ternate, ob- 
longo-linear or sub-cuneate, subacute, silky-pubescent ; the leaf tubercle 
aculeate ; flowers 1-3 together ; calyx silky-villous, widely campanulate, 
its teeth small, triangular, much shorter than the tube; ovary 4-5 ovuled ; 
legume obliquely ovato-lanceolate. Benth. / 1. c. p. 607. A. tridentata, 
E. &Z.1 En. No. 1378. E. Mey. Comm. p. 43, auct, pl. Galega ternata, 
Thunb. ! Fl. Cap. p. 601. 
the axils of the upper leaves, or at the ends of short branchlets, 5-6 lines long. Calyx 
4 lines long, 24-3 wide, fulvous. Petals purple within, densely silky 
externally. 
31. A. purpurea (E. &Z.! No.t 379); robust, rigid, divaricately 
branched ; leaves fascicled or subternate, cuneate-linear, subobtuse, 
densely silky, the leaf-tubercle aculeate or pointless ; flowers lateral, 
solitary ; calyx villous, widely campanulate, «ts teeth from a triangular 
base taper-pointed, scarcely shorter than the tube ; ovary 4-5 ovuled, the 
legume obliquely ovato-lanceolate. Benth. / 1. c.p. 608. A. purp ns 
E. Mey. Comm. p. 44- ie oe ; 
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