132 | LEGUMINOS& (Harv.) [Aspalathus. 
tufted, short, terete, obtuse, fleshy, glabrous ; flowers subsolitary, minutely 
pedicellate, lateral ; calyx downy or glabrescent, with very short or ob- 
solete, distant teeth ; petals glabrous; ale not much shorter than the 
arched and somewhat beaked carina; ovary downy, 2—ovuled ; legume 
obliquely lanceolate, subfalcate, thinly pilose. Benth./l.c. p. 642. A. 
afinis, EH. § Z./ 1440, non Thunb. A. pinguis, litt. c. H. Mey.! Comm. p. 
60. Zeyher, 2350. 
Has. Swellendam hills, on Riv. Zonderende, Kars, &c. E. & Z.! Pappe! Klyn 
Fish R., Drege / (Herb. Bth., Hk., D., Sd.) 
A small, ramulous bush, resembling the preceding, but with shorter and smaller 
leaves, shorter or obsolete pedicels, generally pubescent calyces and rather smaller. 
flowers. Also like A. affinis, but smaller in all parts, with a 2-ovuled ovary. Leaves 
4-13 lines long. The young plant is thinly puberulous. at 
109. A. recurva (Benth. ! 1. c. p. 642) ; divaricate, with canescent 
branchlets; leaves tufted, short, terete, obtuse, glabrescent; flowers 
solitary, lateral, shortly pedicellate ; calyx puberulent, subcanescent, its 
lobes triangular, with thickened, recurved margins, nearly as long as the 
tube ; carina glabrous, longer than the pubescent or glabrous vexillum 
and ale ; ovary 2—ovuled; legume glabrous, obliquely ovate-falcate- 
acuminate, 2-3 times longer than the calyx. Zey.!/ No. 419. 
Has. Nearthe 24 Rivers, Zeyher'/ also in Paterson’s collection. (Herb. Hk. Bth. D.Sd.) 
A spreading or depressed, excessively-branched, rigid shrub, with divaricate or 
recurved branches, and pale and scanty foliage. Leaves 1-2 lines long. It differs 
from neighbouring species by its calyx, &c. Flowers pale yellow, 3-34 lines long, 
their pedicels as long as the leaves or rather longer. 
110. A. Wurmbeana(E. Mey. ! Comm. p. 58); branchlets canescent; 
leaves subfasciculate, slender, filiform, curved, obtuse, glabrous ; flowers 
shortly pedicellate, solitary or in pairs, lateral; calyx puberulent-canes- 
cent, rts lobes linear, longer than the turbinate tube ; corolla glabrous, the 
Benth.! 1. c. p. 643. 
Has. Wupperthal, Drege / (Herb. Benth.) ; 
A small shrub with the habit of A. incomta, from which it differs in its glabrous 
leaves and petals, and turbinate cal -tube ; from A. lactea it further differs in the 
vexillum and carina longer than the ale; ovary glabrous, 2~ovuled. - 
noe Leaves 3-4 lines long, few in each tuft. Flowers scarcely two 
_ 111. A. lactea (Thunb. ! Fl. Cap. p. 580, ex parte); branches puberu- 
lent ; leaves Said ahenncr lineman or = sacra seis 
or wncano-puberulous, the floral longer than the calyx ; flowers shortly 
pedicellate ; calyx campanulate, oblique, glabrous or puberulent, with 
subulate teeth much shorter than the tube ; the glabrous or thinly silky 
vexillum and the glabrous carina longer than the ale; ovary glabrous 
or silky; legume obliquely ovato-lanceolate, twice as long as the calyx. 
Var. a. Thunbergii; leaves minutely cano-puberulous ; flowers subsessile ; calyx 
puberulent ; vexillum, ovary, and legumes thinl: silky. <A. lactea, litt. a. Herb. 
Thunb. ! A. incomta, E. Mey.! Benth.t. ¢. p. Saas Bo se 
Var. B. Meyeri; leaves, calyx, vexillum, ovary, and legumes glabrous 0 1s or nearly iy. 
80 ; flowers shortly pedicellate. A. lactea, E. Mey.! Benth./ 1. ¢. p. 
Var. y. Zeyheri ; glabrous ; leaves much denser, longer, and acute or mucronate. 
Zey. No. 2348. 
