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Aspalathus.| LEGUMINOS (Harv.) 111 
acuminate, Benth./l.c.p. 610. Thunb, Fl. Cap. p. §77. Bot. Mag. t. 2225. 
Lodd. Cap, t.316. DC. Prod. 2. p. 138. E.& Z.! No. 1454. 
Has. Sides of Table Mountain and the neighbouring hills, common. (Herb. 
Thunb. -, Hk., Sd., D.) ; 
A rigid, rough, strong-growing, furze-like bush, 3~4 feet high and wide, with very 
pungent leaves, but no prickles. Branches roughly hairy, with brown hairs. Leaves 
6-7 lines long, or 3-4 lines, all generally straight and spreading. Heads several 
flowered ; the petals yellow, the vexillum fulvous externally. Calyx and its seg- 
ments thickly covered with long, foxy, rigid, straight hairs. 
36. A. araneosa (Linn. Sp. p. 1001); pilose, with long pale hairs; 
leaves tufted, filiform, curved or squarrose, mucronate, the floral densely 
plumose ; flowers capitate ; calyx hirsute, its segments from a broader 
base, subulate-attenuate, plumose, much longer than the tube; vexillum 
villous, carina glabrous; ovary villous ; legume obliquely ovato-rhom- 
boid, falcate-acuminate. Benth./ 1. c. p. 610. Thunb. Fl. Cap. p. 577. 
DC. Prod, 2. p. 141. Bot. Mag. t. 829 (bad). Sieb. No. 48.  Zey. 426. 
L. §& Z.! 1463, and A. Simsiana, 1464. : Kf. beef 
Has. Cape, Stellenbosch, and Worcester districts, on the hill sides, common. 4" Cad | | 
(Herb. Th., Bth., Hk., D., Sd.) , i] 
A tall, but not densely branched shrub, 3-5 feet high, more or less densely covered 
with long, stiffish, spreading hairs ; the upper and floral leaves especially. Leaves 
6-8 lines long or more, very slender, terete, spreading and flexuous. Heads dense, 
globose, several flowered ; fl. 4-6 lines long, yellow, sometimes pale or whitish, or 
rufescent. Zeyher’s 426 is a much depauperated form. 
37. A. ciliaris (Linn. Mant. p. 262); pilose ; leaves fascicled, subu- 
late, linear-trigonous, or filiform, short or long ; flowers terminal, capi- 
tate or 2-3 together, or sometimes solitary ; calyx hirsute, tts segments 
narrow-linear-lanceolate, ribbed, sub-trinerved, acute, much longer than 
the tube ; vexillum villous, carina glabrous or villous ; ovary very hairy. 
Benth.! lc. p. 611. H. & Z. 1469. A. appendiculata, E. Mey.! HE. & Z.! 
1470. A. dubia, E. Mey.! E.§Z.! 1475. A. Meyeriana, E.§ Z. No. 1473. 
A, papillosa, E. § Z.! 1472. <A. oresigena, E. & Z. 1471. A. aulonogena, 
E &Z.! 1465. 
Has. Mountains and hills of Cape, Stellenbosch, Worcester, and Caledon, com- 
mon. Krum River, Uitenhage, #. & Z.! No. 1471. Klynhowhoek, Zeyher, 2341. 
(Herb. Th., Bth., Hk., D., Sd.) , 
A very variable plant, sometimes robust, tall and woody, with densely tufted, 
short, straight or curved leaves ; sometimes slender, decumbent or diffuse, with 
scarcely tufted or ternate, very Jong, filiform, curved leaves, as in A. araneosa, from 
which, in all cases, the present may be known by its broader, ribbed and nerved ca- 
lyx-lobes. The young leaves are pilose, the older glabrescent or gee ; they 
vary extremely in length, often on the same bush. In A. dubia, E. M., all but the 
floral are 2-3 lines long ; commonly they are 4-5 lines; and in slender specimens 
6~7 lines. Flowers deep yellow or fulvescent, 5-6-8 lines long. The carina varies — 
much in pubescence, and is often quite glabrous. 
38. A. Benthami (Harv.); branches hairy; leaves tufted, linear- — 
carinate or subulate, mucronate, hispid; flowers sessile on the tips ofvery 
short, leaf-crowned branchlets, 1-3 together; calyx-tube turbinate, hir- 
sute, its segments lanceolate, three-nerved, twice as long as the tube, 
but shorter than the hirsute, suborbicular vexillum; carina : 
- glabrous ; legume obliquely ovate, acuminate. A. comosa, E. Me 
p. 63. Benth,! I. c.p. 612, non Thunb. nec. E.gZ. epee e 
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