Aspalathus. ] LEGUMINOS (Harv.) 125 
glabrous arched and beaked carina. A. pinea, Benth. / l.c.p. 631, non 
sie oe A uniflora, E. & Z.! 1483, non L. nec. Thunb. Sted. Fl. Cap. 
p. 161. 
Has. Hott. Holl., £. ¢ Z./ Sieber! Reeves! Forbes! (Herb. Bth., Hk., Sd.) 
_ A tall, densely branched and densely leafy shrub, with erect, rod-like branches, 
crowned with 2-4 large, fulvous-yellow flowers. The younger leaf-tubercles are mu- 
cronate, but not spinous. Leaves very slender, }-$ inch long, the young ones softly 
pilose, older glabrous and pale green. Vexillum tapering to an acute point. Ovules 
about 7. Legume thick, an inch long, 3-4 lines broad at base, somewhat falcate. 
83, A. grandiflora (Benth.!1.c. p.32); branches ramuliferous, hairy ; 
leaves tufted, linear-trigonous, keeled, acute, pilose or glabrous, shining ; 
flowers solitary or few, subsessile, at the end of short branchlets ; 
bracteoles trifoliolate; calyx villoso-hirsute, its lobes broadly lanceolate, 
rather longer than the tube; vexillum villous, obovate, obtuse ; carina 
glabrous, arched and rostrate; stigma very oblique. 
Has. From Thom’s collection. (Herb. Hook.) 
Probably a large shrub. Branches thick and woody ; the younger roughly hairy ; 
ramuli closely set, 2-3 inches long, ending in 1-2-3, uncial, fulyous, yellow 
flowers. Leaves on the branches 2-3 lines, on the ramuli 4 inch long, reddish 
brown, glossy. Calyx 6 lines long. Nearly allied to A. galeata, but a coarser, more 
roughly hairy bush, with longer leaves, larger flowers, and an oblique stigma, &e. 
84. A, galeata (E. Mey.! Comm. p. 49); branches ramuliferous, pi- 
lose, soon glabrous ; leaves tufted, short, linear-keeled, acute, soon gla- 
brous, shining; flowers few, ending the branches, shortly pedicellate ; 
bracteoles trifoliolate; calyx thinly pilose, its lobes subulate, acuminate, 
pungent, longer than the tube ; vexillum villous, obovate, obtuse; carina 
glabrous, arched and rostrate; stigma straight; legume obliquely lan- 
ceolate, falcate, villous. Benth. l. c. p. 632. 
Has. Clanwilliam, between Pikenierskloof and Olifant’s River, Drege! (Herb. 
Bth., Hk., D.) 
‘A much branched, leafy bush, with large, 8-9 lines long, fulvescent flowers. 
Leaves 2-3 lines long, rufescent. The leaves are shorter than in any other of this 
section. 
8. PACHYCARP. (Sp. 85-87.) 
85, A. densifolia (Benth. 1. c. p. 632); branches virgate, hairy; leaves 
very densely tufted, subulate, mucronate, glabrescent, those under the 
2-4 flowered heads plumoso-ciliate ; calyx piloso-villous, obliquely 
campanulate, the two upper teeth broadly ovate-acuminate, the 3 lower 
lanceolate, all shorter than the tube; vexillum very villous, longer than 
the incurved, obtuse, glabrous carina; ovary 6-ovuled ; legume obliquely 
rhombic-ovate, acuminate, thick, villous. Benth. ! 
Has. Witsenberg, Zeyher, 428! Dec. (Herb. Hk., Bth., Sd.) 
A robust, erect, densely leafy, not much branched bush ; the branches very erect, 
8-14 inches long, ending in small, subglobose heads of flowers, encircled with white, 
hairy, floral leaves. Flowers deep yellow or orange, half inch long. Calyx inflated, 
unequal ; the lowest lobe narrow. Leaves 4 lines long, the upper ones 4 inch, gla- 
brous and glossy, brownish. Very near the following, but with longer leaves and 
larger flowers. S 
86, A. triquetra (Thunb.! Fl. Cap. p. 578); branches ramuliferous, 
pilose; leaves densely tufted, short, incurved, acute, linear, strongly 
keeled, glabrous or pilose; flowers 2-4 together, capitate; calyx villoso- 
