116 LEGUMINOS (Harv.) [ Aspalathus, 
sessile, lateral; calyx pubescent, its segments subulate, as long as the 
tube or shorter ; vexillum pubescent ; ale much shorter than the glabrous 
or pubescent carina ; ovary 2-ovuled ; legume obliquely ovate, acute, 
downy, longer than the calyx. Benth./ l. c.p.617. E. Mey. Comm. p. 57+ 
A. hispida, Thunb. ! Fl. Cap. p. 579,ex parte. E.§ Zt No. 1413. A. Srank- - 
enioides, i. & Z.! 1416, nom DC. A. multiflora, Sieb. No. 49, 163. Zey.f 
2339, 431. 
Var. a, tenuifolia ; leaves longer and more slender. A. mollis, B. flexuosa, Ei, Mey. 
Comm. excl. syn. Thunb. 7 
Var. 8, micrantha ; flowers smaller ; calyx teeth shorter. A. micrantha, E. Mey.! 
Linn. 7. p. 161. E. § Z. No. 1418. Pappe, 242. 
Var. ¥. albiflora; more glabrous, with shorter leaves, short calyx teeth and white 
flowers. A. multiflora, E. Mey., and Thunb.! Herb. lit. B. non a. A.albijlora, BE. & Z.! 
1417. Zey.! 2331. 
Hap. Very abundant on dry hills and by roadsides throughout the western dis- 
tricts. Vars. 8. and y. in Uitenhage and Albany. (Herb. Th., Bth., Hk., D., Sd.) 
A spreading or prostrate, very much-branched, and ramulose rigid shrub ; stems 
3-4 feet long ; branches spreading or divaricate. Leaves 1-2 lines long or shorter. 
Calyx teeth sometimes very short, rarely equalling the tube. Flowers. among the 
smallest in the genus, 2 lines long, slender, with a reflexed vexillum and projecting 
carina. Legume 14 line long, 1 line wide, compressed. ; 
52. A. diffusa (E. & Z.! No. 1420); small, slender, villoso-canescent ; 
leaves ternate or subfasciculate, short, linear-terete, blunt, villgus ; flowers 
(minute) lateral, subsessile, scattered ; calyx albo-villous, its lobes 
lanceolate, equalling the tube; petals... . 1; legume ovate, acute, 
rather longer than the calyx, silky-canescent. Ee 
Has. Mountain sides near Plettenbergsbay, Mundt.! (Herb. Sd.) 
A small, depressed, much-branched shrub, 6-8 inches long, with filiform branches, 
and softly pubescent, with whitish hairs. Leaves 14 lines long, slightly fleshy, thicker~ 
than in A. thymifolia, to which this imperfectly known Species seems to be allied. 
53. A. asparagoides (Linn. f. suppl. 321) ; much-branched, ramu- 
lose ; branches hirsuto-tomentose ; leaves tufted, setacco-filiform, tncurved, 
mucronate, ciliato-pilose, at length subglabrous; flowers lateral, solitary, 
sessile ; calyx-lobes subulate, acutely mucronate, ciliate, more than 
twice as long as the hairy tube, and nearly equalling the corolla ; vexil- 
lum mucronate, pubescent, longer than the glabrous carina; alz shorter; 
ovary 2—ovuled ; legume obliquely-ovate, acute, pubescent, shorter than 
the calyx. Benth./i.c. p.619. Thunb. Fi. Cap. p. 579. Burch. 5203 
and 6131. 
Has. Collected by Thunberg! Nelson, Bowie B é . Pappe! 
(Heth: ‘Th ba i * | elson, ! and Burchell. Knysna, Dr. appe 
A much-branched and ramulous, rather slender bush, 1-2 feet high, with reddish 
bark, the old branches glabrate. Leaves in subdistant fascicles, 4-6 lines long, very 
slender, remarkably curved, arcuate, red-brown when dry. Vexillum with a long 
point, rarely muticous, Flowers rufescent, 
54 A. calcarata (Hary.) ; diffuse, the leaf-tubercle armed with a sharp, 
rigid spur ; leaves tufted, linear-terete, obtuse or mucronulate, minutely 
appressedly puberulous or glabrescent, the floral exceeding the calyx- 
tube ; flowers lateral, subsessile, solitary ; calyx turbinate, puberulous, 
its segments subulate, equalling the tube ; the vexillum broadly-ovate, 
acute, thinly silky ; carina rostrate, glabrous ; ovary 2—ovuled, silky ; 
legume obliquely-ovate, acuminate, thinly silky. 
