Aspalathus. | LEGUMINOS (Harv.) 113 
42. A. uniflora (Linn. Sp. p. roor); branches villoso-tomentose ; 
leaves tufted, short, linear-terete, blunt, glabrous or hairy ; flowers sub- 
sessile, solitary or in pairs; calyx-lobes leafy, 3—-nerved, oblongo-cymbe- 
orm, concave, very obtuse, as long as the pubescent tube ; vexillum vil- 
lous ; carina glabrous; legume pubescent, obliquely rhomboid, scarcely 
longer than the calyx. Benth. 1. c. p. 613. A. cymbeformis, DC. Prod. 2. 
p. 140. #.§ Z.! No. 1408. A. scaphoides, E. & Z.! 1409. Sieb. Fl. Cap. 
160. Zeyher, 2685. 
Has. Hills round Capetown and in the Cape District, common. (Herb. Bth., Hk. NM tn oclel cm A 
Sd., D.) “ 
A much branched, divaricate, prostrate or spreading, ramuliferous shrub, with 
pale green foliage, variable in its pubescence, but easily known by the boat-shaped 
calyx-lobes. According to Bentham, this is the original A. wniflora of Linnzus (but 
not of Thunberg). 
43, A. prostrata (E. & Z.! 1410) ; prostrate, slender, ramulous, pubes- 
cent; leaves tufted, very short, linear-terete, blunt, pubescent ; flowers 
solitary, sessile at the ends of very short, leaf-crowned ramuli ; bracts 
and bracteoles ovate; calyx campanulate, shortly hairy, its lobes ovate, ob- 
tuse, flat, shorter than the tube; vexillum pubescent, longer than the 
glabrous carina and ale; ovary pedicellate, silky, 2-ovuled. 
Has. Mountains near Swellendam, Mundt! (Herb. Sond.) 
A small, slender suffrutex, quite prostrate, with spreading, filiform branches, sub- 
divided, and thickly set with erect ramuli, $-} inch long; each ramulus ending in a 
tuft of leaves and usually tipped with a flower. Leaves 1-14 line long. _ Flowers 
yellow, 4 lines long ; the broad and short, flat bracteoles appressed to the calyx. 
Calyx-tube 15 striate, the strie darker. All parts of the plant shortly pubescent. 
Quite distinct from A. wnijflora. The claws of the lower petals are adnate with the 
staminal tube; the vexillum hairy at summit of claw, inside, and silky externally. 
44, A. comosa (Thunb. Fl. Cap. p. 577, non Benth.); branches vil- 
lous; leaves tufted, setaceo-filiform, curved, hairy or subglabrous, acute ; 
flowers lateral, solitary, sessile in the leaf-tufts; calyx-tube campanu- 
late, pubescent, 13-15 nerved, tts segments setaceo-subulate, mucronate, 
recurved, about equalling the tube ; vexillum silky, narrow-obovate, ca- 
rina much shorter than the ale, glabrous; ovary 2-ovuled, silky. A. in- 
curva, E.& Z.1 No. 1419. EB. Mey.! Comm. p. 55. Benth. 1. c. p. 619, non 
Thunb.! A. thymifolia, Thunb.! non Linn. 
Var. 8. Namaquana ; villoso-canescent, with shorter leaves ; carina silky; ca- 
lyx-lobes twice as long as the tube. 
Has. 8. Africa, Thunberg/ Paarl and Hott. Holl., Z. §Z./ Pappe! 207. Alea- — 
ander Prior! Tulbagh, Drege! 8. Namaqualand, Wyley. (Herb. Th., Bth., D., 
Hk., Sd.) gos 
A rigid, suberect or spreading, small shrub, 6-12 inches high ; the branches curved, 
ealirprsy bark ; the older ones naked and tubercled, the younger hairy. Leaftufts 
densely crowded or imbricate. Leaves 3-4 lines long, very slender, subterete, the - 
younger softly pilose. Flowers small, slender, 3-4 lines long, pale. Cal. 2 lines long, 
the base of the teeth 3-ribbed, the ribs continued, and partly confluent on the tube. 
Vexillum twice as long as the calyx, Spies to a cuneate base. Claws of the lower 
petals adnate with the staminal tube for at least 4 of their length! Als nearly 
equalling the vexillum; carina not half so long. This has quite the aspect of one of 
the Zeptanthe section, among which it is placed by Bentham, but its petals are dis- 
tinctly adnate to the stamens, and the 15~-ribbed calyx accords with the 3-nerved 
sepals of the Synpetale, It is the A. comosa of Thunberg’s Herbarium, and also’ 
his A. thymifolia, on the same authority. 
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