Aspalathus.] LEGUMINOSZ (Harv.) 127 
late. Spikes few flowered. Calyx purpurascent, its lobes lo and narrower than 
in A. callosa, to which this is nearly allied. a 
90. A. variegata (E. & Z.! 1376); leaves ternate or tufted, short, 
slender, fleshy, blunt or mucronulate, glabrous ; flowers in loose racemules 
or subumbellate ; calyx campanulate, downy, somewhat fleshy, its teeth 
ovate-acuminate, shorter than the tube ; vexillum nearly glabrous, shorter 
than the arched carina; ovary 4-ovuled; legume obliquely lanceolate, 
glabrous, twice as long as the calyx. Benth. l. c. p. 634. 
Has. Cape Flats, £. § Z./ Wallich, W.H.H., §c. Varschevalley, Zeyher, No. 429. 
(Herb. D., Bth., Sd.) 
A much branched, slender, subcorymbose, ramulous bush, 1-14 foot high; 
branchlets thinly and minutely puberulent, with laxly set, pale foliage. Leaves 2-3 
lines long. Racemules 3-6 flowered, the flowers yellow. Legume § lines long, 2 
lines wide. Bracts and bracteoles linear-lanceolate. 
91. A. carnosa (Berg. Pl. Cap. p. 206; non E. & Z.); branchlets ru- 
fo-tomentulose ; leaves tufted and ternate, short, linear-terete, fleshy, 
blunt or mucronulate, glabrous ; flowers pedicellate, capitato-racemu- 
lose, few together; calyx campanulate, fleshy, pubescent, its teeth broadly 
oval, obtuse, glabrous, half as long as the tube; vexillum downy on the 
ridge, equalling the glabrous carina; legume obliquely lanceolate, about 
twice as long as the calyx. Benth.!1.c.p. 635. Thunb.! Fl. Cap. p. 580. 
Bot. Mag. t. 1289. 
Has. Capetown and Simon’s Bay Hills, Thunberg/ Scholl! Bowie! M‘Gillivray ! 
W.H.H., gc. (Herb. Thb., Bth., D., Hk.) 
A very densely branched shrub, 2-4 feet high and wide ; glabrous except on the 
young twigs and the flowers. Leaves pale, 2-3 lines long, thick and blunt, patent. 
_ Flowers pale yellow. Legume 4-5 lines long. Bracts oblongo-cuneate, or linear- 
oblong ; bracteoles lanceolate or linear. 
92. A. Priori (Harv.); branchlets pubescent ; leaves tufted, short, 
linear-terete, fleshy, blunt, glabrous, the younger ones and the floral se- 
toso-ciliolate ; flowers sessile, capitate, few together; calyx very oblique, 
setoso-pubescent, the two upper lobes deeply parted, ovato-lanceolate, the three 
lower lanceolate, acute, longer than the tube; vexillum silky, longer than 
~ the very blunt carina; ovary villoso-sericeous, 2-ovuled, stipitate. 
Has. Table Mountain, Capetown, Dr. Alexander Prior! (Herb. Benth.) 
A much branched shrub, in aspect very like A. carnosa; but the yo leaves are 4 
setulose ; the floral longer, lanceolate, pubescent and rigidly ciliate ; the flowers very a 
much smaller, with differently shaped petals, and the calyx very dissimilar. 
98. A. sarcodes (Vog., ex Walp. Linn. 13. p. 480); glabrous ; leaves 
tufted or ternate, linear, mucronate, fleshy, subterete ; flowers pedicel- 
late, one or two, terminal; bracts and bracteoles broadly ovate ; calyx 
widely campanulate, glabrous, fleshy, with broadly ovate, obtuse lobes, di- 
lated at the sinuses and nearly equalling the tube; ovary with several 
ovules'; legume obliquely lanceolate. Benth. ! 1. ¢. p. 635. Sarcophyllum 
carnosum, Thunb.! Fl. Cap. p. 573- Sarcocalyx capensis, Walp. 1. ¢. oe Qty 
Has. 8 , at FalseBay, Thamberg ! Pappe! Dr. Hooker! Dr. Alexander Now } i | 
: 2s 
Prior} (Herb. Thb., Bth., D., Hk., Sd.) : y 
A loosely branched ramulous shrub, 3-4 feet high and ig, erg are Supt. ‘ 
except in the axils of the leaves and round the leaf-scars._ Se ; 
w green, somewhat succulent. Leaves incurved, patent, 5-6 lines long, 
