122 LEGUMINOS (Harv.) [Aspalathus. 
carina; legume ovato-lanceolate, appressedly villous, longer than the 
calyx. 
Var. a. Eckloni; calyx teeth 13 as long as tube; vexillum setaeeo-mucronate- 
A. setacea, Benth.! . c. p. 618. A. alopecuroides, £. Mey. Comm. p. §2. 
Var. A. Gillii; calyx teeth 1} as long as tube ; vexillum mucronulate. A. Gilli, 
Benth./ 1. ¢. p. 617. 
Has. Vanstaadens Hills, Uitenhage, 2. d Z./ Drege! and at the mouth of the 
Omsameaba, Drege! Caffirland, Dr. Gill, (Herb. Bth., Hk., D.) 
A densely much branched, villous shrub, 2-3 feet high ; the branches erect, ramu- 
lous, densely imbricated with leaves. Leaves 3-6 lines long, the younger ones all 
needle-pointed. Flowers sessile, yellow, nestling among the leaves. The flowers 
in A. Gillit are a very little larger than in Ecklon’s plant, with somewhat shorter, 
but similarly shaped and pointed calyx-lobes, and less mucronate vexillum ; but in 
foliage and general habit both are very similar. 
72. A. Alopecurus (Burch. Cat: 5561) ; branches woolly and very 
villous, densely leafy ; leaves tufted, setaceo-subulate, pungent-mucro- 
nate, hairy ; calyx softly villous, its lobes setaceous, 14 to twice as long as 
the tube ; vexillum and carina villous ; legume ovato-lanceolate, woolly, 
much longer than the calyx. Benth.!1.c.p. 618. A. comosa, H. & Z. ! 
1426, non Thunb. 
Has. 8, Africa, Burchell, Thom! Mountain sides, near the Howhoek Pass, Cale- 
Op oad ites oxi ftly hairy bush, 1-2 feet high; th 
ro) ran very 80: ush, 1-2 feet high; the 
branches and Re shaggy. spat ae imbricated, 4-6 apg pe very 
slender, fulvous or dark in drying. Flowers small, pale, nestling among the leaves ; 
vexillum ovate, stipitate, pointless. Legume 3~4 lines long. 
73. A. incurvifolia (Walp. Linn. 13. p. 497); branches tomentose, 
densely leafy; leaves tufted, incurved, setaceo-subulate, mucronate, 
glabrous or nearly so ; flowers solitary ; calyx thinly pubescent, cam- 
panulate, with short, deltoid teeth ; vexillum glabrous or subpubescent, 
scarcely longer than the glabrous carina; legume obliquely ovato- 
gee a turgid, densely villous, much longer than the calyx. Benth.! 
. ¢. p. O18. 
Has. 8. Africa, Burchell, Bowie! (Herb. Hk., Bth.) 
A — ; sngeonere, Fs ey a wry am ni leafy —— aan 
spreading Squarrose, ong, bro 
abundant, distributed along the branches, small ak pom sot i a ae 
74. A. Chamissonis (Vog. Linn. 10. p. 597); branchlets and gemme 
spiniferous ; leaves tufted, short, linear-terete, blunt, silky-canescent ; 
flowers solitary ; calyx softly villous, widely campanulate, with subu- 
late teeth scarcely equalling the tube ; petals glabrous; ovary 2-ovuled ; 
legume obliquely ovato-lanceolate, thick, softly pubescent. Benth./ I. c. 
p. 619. A. acanthophylla, EB. § Z.! 1496. 
Has, , Chamisso. Swellendam, , fi i 
r-aece. Mand bet. (Geb. Hh, aA be / 223, Sides of Table Mountain, 
robust, straggling, thorny bush ; the spines either endi ranch issu- 
ing from the middle of the leaf-tufts. Leaves 2-4 Prseg dmidan.ane shenier 
than the horizontally patent spines. Flowers small and yellow. E. & Z: give 
Swellendam as the district where Mundt gathered this plant ; but the original speci- 
men in Hb. Hook., and of which Ecklon’s seems to be ; 
in Mundt’s hand-writing. as to he a branch, is marked as above 
