124 - LEGUMINOS& (Harv.) [ Aspalathus. 
lateral, near the ends of spine-tipped ramuli; calyx silky, its lobes lan- 
ceolate, pointless, shorter than the tube; vexillum and carina silky 
towards the points; legume straight, linear, silky.” 4H. Mey./l.c. 
Has. Banks of the Gariep, Drege! 
Of this I have only seen a fragment without flower or fruit, in Hb. Sond. 
7, GRANDIFLORE. (Sp. 79-84.) 
79. A. Willdenowiana (Benth. 1. c. p. 630); branches rigid, the leaf 
tubercle unarmed or spinoso-mucronulate; leaves setaceo-filiform, sub- 
glabrous, acute ; flowers solitary or few, on very short pedicels ; calyx 
villous, widely and obliquely campanulate, with subulate, acuminate 
teeth as long as the tube; vexillum villous; carina glabrous, strongly 
arched and beaked; stigma scarcely oblique; legume obliquely lanceo- 
late, very villous. Benth. A. verrucosa, Willd., non L. E. Mey.! Comm, 
p.50. A, hystrix, E.& Z.! 1481, non. Linn. f. A. uniflora, Thunb. non L. 
Has. Hill sides, Puspas Valley, Swell. Z. ¢ Z./_ Cape Town Hills, Drege! Hout 
Bay, Alexander Prior! (Herb. Bth., Sd., Hk.. Th.) 
A tall shrub, erect and loosely branched ; branches virgate, tapering off to a fine 
point, the younger twigs pubescent, older nearly glabrous. Leaves densely tufted, 
slender, 4-3 inch long. Flowers 4 inch long, the vexillum subsessile and very wide. 
wages? 6. Stigma much less oblique than in the following. Legume 6 lines long, 
23 wide, 
80. A. leptophylla (E. & Z.! 1482); branches rigid, spine-tipped, 
the leaf-tubercle sharply spiniferous; leaves setaceo-filiform, mucronu- 
late, subglabrous; flowers solitary or in pairs, shortly pedicellate ; ca- 
lyx pubescent, widely campanulate, with lanceolato-subulate teeth as 
long as the tube; vexillum villous, carina glabrous, strongly arched and 
beaked ; stegma obliquely decurrent ; legumes obliquely lanceolate, villous. 
Benth. /1. ¢c. p. 31. A. laricifolia, Lam. non Berg. A. verrucosa, litt. b. & ¢. 
E. Mey.! 
Has. Hills and mountain sides, Tulbagh, FE. Z./ The Paarl and Dutoitskloof, 
Drege! Alexander Prior! (Herb. Bth., Hk., Sd., D.) 
‘Very like A. Willdenowiana, from which it is known by its sharply-aculeate leaf- 
Hee che decurrent stigma. Branches reddish yellow, shining ; leaves pale, } 
in ; 
81. A. rostrata (Benth.! 1. c. p. 361); divaricate, with rigid, spine- 
tipped branchlets ; the leaf-tubercle spinoso-mucronulate ; leaves linear- 
terete, bluntish, cano-puberulent ; flowers solitary, shortly pedicellate ; 
calyx pubescent, with subulate teeth shorter than the tube; vexillum 
Sbligns shorter than the arched, long beaked, glabrous carina; stigma 
oblique. 
Has. From Scholl's collection. (Herb, Benth ) 
Allied to A. leptophylla, but with much shorter, minutely canescent, blunter and 
thicker leaves, shorter calyx-lobes, and a longer and more tapering carina, 
82. A, macrantha (Harv.); branches virgate, villous; the leaf-tu- 
bercle mucronulate ; leaves densely tufted, setaceo-subulate, mucronu- 
late, at length glabrous ; flowers towards the ends of the branches late- 
ral or terminal, few together, shortly pedicellate; bracteoles simple; ca- 
lyx widely campanulate, its teeth from a broad, ovate base shortly subu- 
late-acuminate; vexillum villous, oblong-ovate, acute, equalling the 
