Aspalathus. ] LEGUMINOS& (Harv.) 121 
69, A. canescens (Linn. Mant. p. 262) ; leaves tufted, subulate, acute, 
canescent or silky ; flowers solitary, lateral ; calyx widely campanulate, 
villous, with subulate-acuminate teeth mostly shorter than the tube; 
vexillum pubescent, longer than the glabrous or pubescent carina ; le- 
gume obliquely lanceolate, turgid, very villous. Benth./ 1. c. p. 625. 
Thunb.! Cap. p. 577. E.& Z.! No. 1448. 
= ge B. sericophylla; leaves white and silky. A. neanthes, E. & Z./ 1449. Zey. / 
Var. y. Bowieana (Benth.) ; larger, with longer (4-5 line) leaves ; shorter calyx 
teeth ; larger flowers, and a more acute legume, 7 lines long. Benth. l. ¢ 
Var. 5. Joubertiana; leaves very densely imbricated ; cal. lobes as long as the 
tube ; vexillum glabrescent ; carina rostrate, acute. A. Joubertiana, E. § Z, 1450. 
Has. Western Districts from Capetown to Swellendam, common ; the varieties . 
chiefly in Swellendam., (Herb. Th., D., Bth., Hk., Sd.) 
Erect or spreading, robust, much branched ; branches virgate or ramulous. Leaves 
always pubescent, but sometimes thinly so; mostly canescent, and in f. almost 
silvery. Except in its pubescence it does not materially differ from the equally com- 
mon A. laricifolia. 
‘70. A. frankenioides (DC. Prod. 2. p. 13 9); ramulose, divaricate, 
with tomentose branchlets ; leaves tufted, short, obtuse or subacute, 
pointless, linear-terete, canescent or tomentose, the old glabrescent ; 
flowers solitary, sessile ; calyx campanulate, pubescent or tomentose, 
with subulate teeth shorter than the tube ; vexillum pubescent or to- 
mentose, rather longer than the glabrous or pubescent carina; legume 
ovato-lanceolate, villoso-tomentose, scarcely twice as long as the calyx, 
Van. a. chortophila; leaves thinly pubescent, becoming subglabrous ; carina 
villous. A. chortophila, E. & Z.! 1436. Benth./ l. ¢. p. 626. A. frankenioides, E.M. 
Van. f. intermedia; leaves very short ; carina pubescent. 4. intermedia, E. § Z. 
1437. Benth.! l. c’ p. 626. ; 
Van. . albanensis; leaves longer and more hairy ; carina either minutely pu- 
berulous or quite glabrous. A. frankeniordes, Benth. / 1. ¢. p. 627. A, albanensis, 
E. § Z./ 1435- 
Var. 8. poliotes; leaves longer and more tomentose ; carina rous or pubes- 
cent. A. poliotes, B. g Z./ 1446. Benth. l.¢. p. 627. A. leptothria, E. § Z.! 1447. 
A. tomentosa, E. Mey.! Comm. p. 55. Zey.! 2329- 
‘Var. ¢. alpina; leaves as in a. ; vexillum and carina thinly pubescent or glabres- 
cent ; calyx-lobes as long as the tube. A. hiatuum, E. § Z.! 1438. 
Has. Common, in one or other of its forms, in Uitenhage and Albany, 2. § Z./ 
Drege! $c. (Herb. Bth., Hk., D., Sd.) 
A much branched, spreading or dep , small bush, with canescent branches 
and foliage, and yellow flowers. Leaves 1-2 lines long, in 5. 2-3 lines, variable in 
ubescence, sometimes glabrous, but even then whitish or grey. Flowers 3-34 lines 
ong, the corolla thrice as long as the calyx. Vexillum broadly orbicular or sub- 
cordate ; the carina blunt, hairy or smooth. Legume 2-4 lines long, more or less 
taper-pointed. Calyx teeth very variable in length, sometimes obsolete! Our 5 
pn a are upheld by Bentham as species ;_ otherwise I should scarcely have indi- 
cated them all, This species varies like A. thymifolia, of which it has the habit, but 
from which, and others of the Leptanthe section, it differs in the broadly 
vexillum and in the calyx. 
71, A. setacea (E. & Z. ! 1462) ; branches villoso-tomentose ; leaves 
tufted, setaceo-subulate, pungent-mucronate, villoso-canescemt ; flowers 
solitary ; calyx villous, campanulate, its lobes lanceolate-subulate, needle- 
longer than the tube ; vexillum villous, longer than 
