Aspalathus.] LEGUMINOS ( Harv.) 117 
Has. In the Karroo District of Swellendam, Dr. Pappe, 244. (Herb. D.) 
A small, but woody, spreading, many-stemmed, and ramuliferous bush, 12-18 
inches high. Ultimate twigs crowded, ascending, curved. Spur of the leaf-scars 
3-1 line long. Pubescence of twigs, leaves, calyx, vexillum, and legume all close- 
pressed, very thin, of short hairs. Leaves 3~4 lines long, the younger mucronulate. 
Flowers 2-3 lines long, yellow, the vexillum fulvous. Legume 3-3% lines long, 24 
broad at base, three times as long as the calyx. « 
55. A. Pappeana (Harv.); diffuse, much-branched, twigs tomentu- 
lose ; the leaf-tubercle armed with a short, sharp, rigid spur ; leaves tufted, 
linear-terete, obtuse or mucronulate, nearly glabrous, the floral equalling 
the calyx tube ; flowers lateral, subsessile, solitary ; calyx silky, its 
segments broadly lanceolate, equalling the tube ; vexillum obcordate, 
emarginate, densely silky-villous ; carina oval, obtuse, straight, pubescent ; 
ovary 2-ovuléd; legume obliquely ovate, acute, thinly silky. 
Has. Swellendam, Dr. Pappe, 239. (Herb. D.) 
A much-branched, ramulose and rigid, depressed bush, 1 foot high, with foliage 
somewhat like that of A. laricifolia. Spur of the leaf-scars not so long as in A. cal- 
carata, from which species this is readily known by its calyx and corolla. The cal.- 
lobes are green, with a subdefined midrib ; the tube pale. Flowers yellow, 3~4 lines 
long ; the vexillum densely silky. Leaves slender, 3 lines long, nearly or quite gla- 
brous. Legume not much longer than the calyx. Differs from A. opaca in the 
armed leaf-tubercle, smaller flowers and calyx, more obtuse leaves, &c. - 
56. A. athens (Linn. Mant. p. 260, non Benth.) ; canescent, much- 
branched ; leaves tufted, tereti-filiform, blunt, whte-silky ; flowers lateral, 
1-3 together, pedicellate, crowded toward the ends of the branches ; 
calyx silky, with very short, acute teeth ; petals nearly glabrous, the alex 
shortest ; legume ovate, acute, cano-tomentose, longer than -the calyx. 
Thunb.! Fl. Cap. p. 576. A. candicans, Ait.! Hort. Kew Ed. 2. vol. 4. p. 
264. Benth.! 1. c. p. 618. 
‘Has. In the Great Karroo, Thunberg / also from Nelson and Oldenberg in Herb. 
Banks, fide Bentham, 1. c. Cape, Verreaux / (Herb. Th., D.) : 3 
A much-branched, erect shrub, covered in all parts with soft, silky, white pubes- 
cence ; the flowering branches slender, fiexuous, 6 inches long. Flowers lateral, but 
crowded in a subterminal, racemose series, small, white ; the petals glabrous. Calyx 
1} lines long. Leaves 3-4 lines long, sometimes mucronulate. Legumes 24 lines 
long. Of this plant there are two excellent specimens, one in flower, one in fruit, 
ey Thunb., and I adopt it therefore as the ‘albens’ of Linnzus, although in 
Herb. Linn. (fide Benth.!) it is confounded with A. armata, which in some points it 
resembles. It is quite unlike the plant called ‘ albens’ by E. Meyer ; our A. exilis. 
5 lines long. Vexillum obovate, with a sharp 
longer leaves, rather more densely crowded, but does not o 
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