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Aspalathus. ] LEGUMINOSZ (Harv.) 119 
Van. 8. echinata; branches divaricate ; leaves 4 lines long ; calyx lobes lanceo- 
late-acuminate, pungent-mucronate, about as long as the tube. A. echinata, E. Mey. 
Comm. p. 51. Benth./ 1. ¢c, p. 622. A. corrudefolia, DC. Prod. 2. p. 139. BE. § 2! 
En. 1461. Zey./ 2367. . 
Has. Near Port Elizabeth, Uit., and Gnadendahl, George, Drege! Winterhoeks- 
berg and Koega River, Zeyher! 2322. (Herb. Bth., Hk., D., Sd.) 
A much and densely branched, leafy bush, with appressed, short, greyish, copious 
pubescence. Leaves 6-8 lines long, needle-pointed. Flowers yellow. This resem- 
bles A. hystrix, but the leaves are generally longer, the flowers smaller, the pubes- 
cence less tomentose, and the calyx lobes very different. Our var. 8. is retained as 
a species by Bentham, and if we confine attention to the original specimens of Drege, 
it looks distinct ; but on comparing several specimens from different collectors and 
herbaria, I do not find the differences sufficiently constant. Both plants come from 
the a districts, and 8. looks like a plant from a drier situation and probably more 
stony soil, ‘ 
62.? A. opaca (E. & Z.! 1468); branches pubescent ; leaf-tubercle 
unarmed ; leaves tufted, short, trigono-subulate, rigid, acute or sub- 
pungent-mucronate, the adult glabrous ; flowers solitary ; calyx oblique, 
ats lobes broadly lanceolate, acute, midribbed, longer than the pubescent 
tube ; vexillum obovate-mucronulate, villous, equalling the glabrous 
carina ; ovary 2-ovuled, villous ; legume ? 
Has. On hills in Adow, Uitenhage, £. ¢ Z./ (Herb. Sd.) ‘ 
The only specimen seen is about 8 inches high, with virgate, rufescent, thinly 
tomentulose branches. Leaves 24-3 lines long, scarcely equalling the internodes, 
patent, acute but scarcely pungent, brownish when dry. Flowers sessile, in the 
centres of all the upper leaf-tufts, 4-5 lines long, the calyx longer than the leaves. 
The calyx lobes have a prominent, keel-like rib, and two fainter, marginal nerves. 
Possibly this should be placed among the LepranTH#, next A. rubrofusca, with 
which, and also with A. Pappeana, it has several points in common. 
63. A. acanthes (E. & Z.! 1459); branches virgate, tomentose ; 
leaves densely tufted, imbricating, long, linear-terete, mucronate, rigid, 
glabrous, the younger pubescent ; flowers solitary ; calyx widely cam- 
panulate, villous, ats teeth lanceolate-subulate, subfaleate, rigid, mucronate, 
longer than tube; vexillum subsessile, orbicular, villous, much longer 
than the glabrous carina ; legume thick and very woolly. Benth./l. ¢. 
p. 623. 
Has. In Kannaland, near Gauritz R., Swell., Z. § Z.! Scholl. (Hb. Bth., Sd.) 
A robust, erect, slightly branched shrub, with long, simple branches, densely im- 
bricated with leaves, the branch (leaves included) 14 inches diameter. Leaves in- 
curved 9-10 lines or an inch long, green, the young ones silky. Calyx lobes thick 
and rigid, 4-5 lines long. Legume turgid, acuminate, 6-8 lines long. Flowers 
yellow, 6-7 lines long, nestling among the leaves. 
64. A. Burchelliana (Benth. ! 1. c. p. 623); “leaves tufted, long, 
linear-terete, scarcely mucronate, somewhat fleshy, glabrous ; flowers 
subsolitary, shorter than the leaves; calyx widely campanulate, pubes- 
cent, its teeth much shorter than the tube ; vexillum villous, rather longer 
than the tomentose carina ; legume thick, turgid, villous.” Benth. fl. ¢. 
Has. From Burchell’s collection, No. 4456, ; 
“ At first sight, very similar to A. verrucosa, but easily known by its villous 
flowers and legume. Branchlets thick, tomentose, tuberculate. Leaves 8-10 lines 
long, numerous, incurved. Calyx 14 lines long. Corolla twice as long. Carina 
longer than the alw.”—Benth. 
65. A. glomerata (Benth. ! 1. c.) “leaves tufted, long, subulate, pun- 
