112 LEGUMINOSE (Harv.) [Aspalathus. 
, ‘al Oi es Has. Cape and Stellenbosch districts. Paarlberg and Dutoit’s Kloof, Drege / 
‘abl we __ Zeyher, 427, ex parte. (Herb. Hk., Bth., D., Sd.) ; 
dene - » (or |;> . & Stout, much branched, spreading shrub, 2-4 feet high ; the twigs rusty-red and 
- /S7/5" hairy, 6-8 inches long, patent. Leaves 4-6 lines long, close or subdi-tant, spreading, 
‘  eurved or squarrose, rufescent or brownish, the old becoming subglabrous. — Flower 
bearing branchlets 3-3, rarely half inch long, crowned with a tuft of leaves. sur- 
rounding the flowers; sometimes the branchlet is abortive and the fl. lateral. Flowers 
yellow, } inch long. Cal.-lobes 3 lines long. Vexillum very broad. Bentham at- 
tributes to this species solitary flowers, but I find them to vary from one to 2-3 on 
. Specimens not otherwise differing ; and these last come near some forms of A, cilia- 
ris. Quite unlike Thunberg’s “ comosa.” 
39. A. incurva (Thunb.! Fl. Cap. 578); branches villoso-tomentose ; 
leaves tufted, linear-triangular, mucronulate, villoso-pubescent or sub- 
glabrous ; flowers sessile in the lateral leaf-tufts, solitary ; calyx-lobes lan- 
ceolate, acute, three-nerved, twice as long as the tube, and nearly equalling 
the suborbicular, villous vexillum; carina glabrous; ovary villous, 
A. elongata, E. Mey.! Comm. p. 63, non E. & Z. Benth.! 1. c. p. 612. Zey. 
| No. 433. A. Dregeana, Walp. Linn. 13, p- 586. 
: Has. Cape and Stellenbosch District, Drege, Caley, Pa , Fc. Between Paalen 
Rnb « Woldel and the Sisrwkers. Zeyher | (Herb. Th., Bth., Hk. Sa. sate us 
| MN A rigid bush, but smaller and less branching than A. Benthami, from which it is 
| Ng | fa, easily known by its different inflorescence, shorter petals, smaller and paler flowers, 
| / and less copious and softer pubescence. Leaves pale green or fuscous, 3~4 lines long ; 
the young rough with tubercle-based hairs, or minutely and appressedly pubescent : 
the older becoming naked. Flowers pale yellow. — 
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40. A. leucophea (Harv.) ; covered with long, white, spreading hairs ; 
leaves tufted, triangular-filiform, slender, Jlexuous, mucronate, plumoso- 
pilose ; flowers sessile in the lateral leaf-tufts, solitary ; calya-lobes subu- 
late, 3-nerved, mucronate, 2=3 times as long as the hirsute tube and 
nearly equalling the villous vexillum; carina thinly silky, longer than 
the alz; ovary densely hirsute. 
’ Hap. Mountains near 24 Rivers, Zeyher. (Herb. Sond.) 
An erect shrub, with the foliage of A. arancosa, but still more copiously hairy, 
with longer and whiter hairs; and with a different inflorescence and calyx. I have 
only seen a single specin en. The leaves are 6-8 lines long, as thick as hog’s bristle ; 
their hairs 1-14 tneeune. The flowers are smaller than in A. araneosa, the corolla 
-Bearcely, if at all, exceeding bien ‘elie are scattered along the branches. Occa- 
sionally there is an imperfect, 2-3 flowered capitulum. If it be a “divarication” of 
A. araneosa or of A, ciliaris, it is a singular one. _ : 
__ 41, A. nervosa (E. Mey.! Comm. p. 62); branches thinly tomentose ; 
leaves tufted, linear-carinate, mucronate, appressedly-pubescent, subca- 
nescent ; flowers lateral and terminal, solitary or in pairs; calyx turbinate, 
tomentose, furrowed, its lobes lanceolate, subfalcate, three-ribbed, nearly 
equalling the tube, much shorter than the villous vexillum,; carina gla- 
brous ; ovary villous. Benth.!l.c.p.613. 
Has. Grassy hills near Swellen ‘undt. Thom! places i Nieu- 
wekloof, Drege’ (Herb. Hk., Bib)” ss — ssa . 
A much branched, densely ramuliferous robust bush, with rusty or foxy, short, 
close pubescence. Leaves 2-3 lines long, spreading or squarrose. Flowers either 
solitary on the ends of very short, leaf-crowned ramuli, or in sessile lateral leaf-tufts, 
_ or sometimes 2 together at the ends of the branches, very abundant, pale yellow, 
with rusty tomentum outside, Als very narrow, much shorter than the keel, which 
‘Nearly equals the vexillum. 
