Aspalathus.] LEGUMINOS (Harv.) 115 
flowers spiked or capitate ; calyx very hairy, its segments lanceolato-subu- 
late, longer than the tube; petals villoso-pubescent, the ovate vexillum 
longer than the carina; ovary 2-ovuled ; legume oblique, ovate, acute, 
shorter than the calyx. Benth. l.c.p. 615. H. § Z./ No. 1421. 
--‘War. f. cephalotes ; heads globular or depressed, more hairy than usual. A. cepha- 
lotes, Thunb.! Fl. Cap. p. §78. E.G Z.1 No. 1423. Zey./ 2336. A, cerrantha, B. & Z.! 
1422, and A. globosa, BE. § Z.! 1425, vie Andr. Rep. t. 510? 
Has. Common on the hills of Cape and Stellenbosch Districts. 8. French Hoek, 
rieerty ! Zwarteberg, Z. § Z./ Klynriviersberg, Zeyher./ (Herb. Th., Bth., Hk., 
An erect or ascending, small shrub, with long, curved, simple, pale-barked, 
branches, occasionally ramuliferous. Leaves 2-4 lines long, slender, becoming darker 
in drying. Flowers blue, in terminal, ovoid, oblong or cylindrical, dense spikes ; 
in f. in short heads. The pubescence of the calyx and bracts is sometimes very 
copious, sometimes scanty. Thunberg’s A. cephalotes, judging by his specimen, is 
merely a stunted form of the present species with short heads and more hirsute flow- 
ers, It is quite different from A. cephalotes, Benth. (our A, Forbesit). 
49, A. ericifolia (Linn. Sp. p. 1000); diffusely much-branched ; leaves 
tufted, short, linear, blunt, villous or glabrescent, the floral ones scarcely 
longer than the calyax tube ; flowers lateral, in interrupted spikes toward 
the ends of the branches ; calyx villous, its segments linear-subulate, 
bluntish, twice as long as the tube ; the ovate-oblong vexillum and the 
keel villous; ovary 2—-ovuled ; legume obliquely ovate, acute, villous, 
equalling the calyx. Benth./ 1. ¢. p. 616. A. ertcoides, E. Mey. Linn. 7. 
p. 160. Thunb.! Fl. Cap. p. 579. A. varians, LH. § Z.! 1428. A. kanna- 
_ensis, H. & Z.! No. 1412. % Fs 
Sa, 
shes ae t a 
Has. Abundant on dry hills in the Cape and Stellenbosch Districts, &c. (Herb. Rear Vat 
.. Th., Bth. Hk., Sd., D.). 
Diffuse or prostrate, robust, 3-4 feet long, much and divaricately branched. Pubes- 
cence generally copious and soft, rusty or fulyous, sometimes scanty. Leaves 1-1} 
line long, sonaelinnes ing black. Flowers extending from 1-2-3 inches along the 
branches, small and pale, 3 lines long. This is the t of Thunberg’s Herbarium ; 
by Linnzus A, mollis and thymifolia, were conf fide Benth, ! 1. ¢. 
50. A. mollis (Lam. Dict. 1. p. 290); every where covered unth long, 
soft hairs ; leaves tufted, setaceo-filiform, mucronulate, pilose, the floral 
much longer than the calyx tube ; flowers lateral, subsessile, solitary ; 
calyx pilose, its segments subulate, teice or thrice as long as the tube ; the 
ovate-oblong vexillum and often the carina villous ; ovary 2—ovuled, 
villous. Benth./l. c. p. 617. A. flexuosa, Thunb.! Fl. Cap. p. 579+ E.& 
Z.! No. 1466. Zeyher, No. 2339.! A. muraltioides, HE. & Z.! No. 1427? 
Has. Paarlberg, Drege / Near Tulbagh Waterfall, Z. § Z.! Voormansbosch, Zey-/ 
(Herb. Th., Bth., Hk., D., Sd.) s 
A ing or procumbent, much or little branched, softly pilose shrub, varying 
in habit, length of leaves, and amount of pubescence. Leaves very slender, 2-4, or 
sometimes 6 lines long, imbricated. Flowers 3 lines long, nestling among the leavés 
like those of a Muraltca, pale, with a fulvescent, either glabrous or pubescent carina, 
i have shorter leaves than usual, but 
roe 
Log, : 
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Gobenatonthe 
nearly equalling the ale. Thunberg’s specimens I, but 
a a “< A, hispida, a.” of his Herb. is A. mollis, but his 
are otherwise identical. The 
“s A, hispida B.” is A. thymifolia. 
51, A. thymifolia (Linn. Sp. p. 1000) ; branches thinly tomentose; 
leaves tufted, short, linear-filiform, blunt, glabrous or ubescent, the 
ei aed sowie solitary, — 
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floral shorter than or nearly equalling the calyx tube ; 
