Aspalathus. | LEGUMINOSZ (Harv.) 123 
6. MACROCARPE. (Sp. 75-78.) 
75, A. filicaulis (E. & Z.! 1395); suffruticose, ascending, thinly pi- 
lose, then glabrescent ; branches subsimple, incurved, angular, with pro- 
minent leaf-tubercles ; leaves ternate or fascicled, unequal, linear, acute 
or mucronate, compressed, incurved, pilose or glabrous ; flowers solitary 
and lateral, or 4-5 in a terminal, imperfect umbel, pedicellate, with seta- 
ceous bracteoles; calyx campanulate, striate, thinly villous, its seg- 
ments subulate, distant, longer than the tube; vexillum silky, obovate, 
equalling the cuneate, glabrous carina ; ovary linear, 16-20 ovuled; le- 
308 linear, many-seeded, 3~4 times as long as the calyx. Benth. / 1. ¢. 
p. 619. 
Van. f. subumbellata; flowers 4-5 in an imperfect umbel. 
mt ene the Tulbagh Waterfall, Z. 4 Z./ 8. Scurfdeberg, Zeyher! (Herb. 
., Bth., Sd. 
A slender gemeds branched chiefly from the base ; branches 6—12 inches long, 
reddish brown. Leaves 3-6 in each tuft, slender, 4-6 lines long, a Pe- 
dicels 1-2 lines long. Flowers yellow, 3-4 lines long, the carina semici , strongly 
arched in front, subacute. Legume 10-11 lines long, 1-14 lines wide, acute, sub- 
turgid or compressed. 
”6, A. macrocarpa (E. & Z.! 1 392); robust, woody, glabrescent ; 
branches rigid, virgate, the leaf-tubercle prominent, tomentose, mucro- 
nate (or unarmed) ; leaves densely tufted, linear-subulate, glabrescent ; 
flowers solitary, pedicellate, cernuous ; calyx downy, ribbed, tts teeth 
scarcely so long as the tube; legume long and lanceolate, turgid, villoso- 
pubescent. Benth. 1. ¢. p. 630. 
Has. Mountains near Wagenmakersbosch, Swell.! Mundt! (Herb. Hk, — 
a very different pod. The leaf-tubercles on the younger twigs are armed with a mi- 
nute spine, on the older unarmed, but densely albo-tomentose and pulvinate, Leaves 
4-5 lines long, pale green, many in each tuft. Flowers unknown. The ripe pods are 
an inch long, nearly 2 lines wide, acuminate. 
_ A. pinea (Thunb.! Cap. p. 82); branches rigid, virgate, the 
von Wate valoas, older pt lac leaf-tubercle small, pointless ; 
leaves tufted, linear-subulate, acute, the young villous, the adult gla- 
brous; flowers lateral, pedicellate, cernuous ; calyx villous, widely and 
obliquely campanulate, ribbed ; its teeth from a broad base subulate, 
than the tube; vexillum subrotund, densely villous, the carina lu- 
nate and rostrate; legume linear-lanceolate, villous, many seeded. 
ica, Th } Winterhoeksberg, Pappe! (Herb. Th., D.) 
Hab. South Afsion, tity branabed shrub, at a4 nearly aggre? when yo! 
ves 
villous; old branches glabrous, pale, with decurrent raised striz. Leaves 4 
long, very slender, not very densely tufted, but closely set and imbricating each 
other ; the leaf-tubercles small, dark brown, quite blunt or minutely mucronulate. 
Pedicels lateral, 1-2 lines long, hairy, the branch extending beyond the fe gre 
flower. Calyx thinly clothed with long, soft hairs. Vexillum very broad hairy ; 
the carina as long, very much arched, semicircular. Ovary at least 16-ovuled. Le- 
gume 8-12 lines long, 2 lines broad, linear, acute, villous. The A. pinea, Benth. is 
macranthis 
our A. 
78, A. Garipensis (E. Mey. Comm. p. 44) ; shrubby, divaricate, with 
spinous branches ; hia tufted, linear-spathulate, subinvolute, chan- 
nelled, obtuse, silky-canescent ; “ flowers solitary, shortly pedicellate, 
