110 LEGUMINOS& (Harv.) [ Aspalathus. 
Very nearly allied to A. ferruginea, but with longer, more densely silky leaves, 
and much longer, narrower, and taper-pointed calyx-teeth. Flowers purple within ; 
densely fulvous without. : 
32. A. dasyantha (E. & Z.! No. 1377) ; robust, rigid, with patent, 
virgate branches; leaves ternate or fasciculate, short, obovate or cuneate- 
oblong, pilose, afterwards glabrescent; the leaf-tubercle sharply aculeate ; 
flowers lateral, subsolitary ; calyx densely shaggy, widely campanulate, 
tts segments lanceolate, shorter than the tube ; ovary 4-5 ovuled ; legume 
obliquely ovate, acute. Benth. / 1. c. p. 608. : 
Has. Maritime Sands, Plettenberg Bay, Mundt.) Bowie! Thom! (Herb. Hk., Sd.) 
A rigid, much branched, woody bush, resembling A. ferruginea, but with longer 
and straighter branchlets, and broader, more roughly hairy and afterwards glabres- 
cent leaves. Leaves 2-3 lines long, 1 line broad. Flowers externally densely 
clothed with fulvous hairs ; internally yellowish -(Eck.), or perhaps a pale rosy ? 
(judging from dried specimens. ) 
33, A, emula (E. Mey. Comm. p. 42); robust, virgate; leaves fasci- 
eled or subternate, small, oblong or obovate, pointless, silky and silvery, 
the leaf-tubercle blunt; flowers sessile, lateral, 1-3 together; calyx 
densely hirsute, its segments falcato-lanceolate, scarcely shorter than the 
tube; ovary 2-ovuled ; legume lanceolate, acuminate, densely villous. 
Benth. 1. ¢. p. 608. A. argentea, E.d:Z.! No. + 390, non Thunb., nec. Linn. 
Zey. No. 2342. 
Var. 8. ramulosa; branches densely ramuliferous ; leaves obovate ; calyx-lobes 
rather shorter. A. ramulosa, E. Mey.! Linn. 7. p- 163. £. § Z./ No. 1380. 
Has. Caledon and Swellendam Districts, E. § Z./ Klynriviersberg, Zeyher! Also 
in Bowie’s and Mundt’s collections. Hexriver, Drege! . on the Zwarteberg, 
£.&Z.! Zeyher! No. 2343. (Herb. Hk., Bth., §d.) 
A large, strong growing, robust bush. Branches 1-2 feet long, simple, densely 
leafy ; in 8. emitting multitudes of ramuli, 2-1 inch long. Leaves 14-2 lines long, 
4-% lines wide, with shining, white, appressed hairs. Flowers yellow, often extend- 
ing a foot or more along the branches. A very distinct and easily known species, 
3. SYNPETALE. (Sp. 34-44.) 
34. A. aculeata (Thunb. ! Fl. Cap. p. 584); leaves in dense tufts, 
subtended by a long spine, linear, keeled, pilose, the upper ones and floral 
hooked and mucronate ; flowers capitate ; calyx villous, its lobes hooked, 
as long as the tube; vexillum villous ; carina glabrous. Benth. / l. e. 
Pp. — E.& Z. No. 1497. E. Mey. Comm. p-43. Zey. 417. DC. Prod. 2. 
Pp. 139. 
Has. Zwartland and Paardeber » Thun ! E.G ZJ Paarl and Daal Josa- 
phat, Drege, de. (Herb. Thb., D., Bth., tie $ a : 
A robust, very densely branched, thorny and hairy bush, with pale yellow bark. 
Branchlets villous. Spines 3-4 lines long, subhorizontally spreading, yellow, sharp. 
Leaves 3-5 lines long, 4 line wide, thickish, the lower ones quite Bees, the upper 
strongly hooked, the older glabrescent. Heads 3-5 flowered ; fl. yellow, s_6 lines 
long. Vexillum and keel nearly equal; ale shorter, __ 
35. A. chenopoda (Linn. sp, p, 1000) ; leaves tufted or subternate, — 
subulate-triangular, rigid, pungent-mucronate, straight, sparsely pilose, 
_ the floral densely plumoso-pilose ; flowers ca itate; calyx hirsute, its 
lobes subulate, rigid, pungent, much longer the tube; vexillum 
_ Villous, carina glabrous ; ovary glabrous ; legume obliquely ovato-falcate, 
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