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Aspalathus. | LEGUMINOS& (Harv.) 133 
Has. S. Africa, Thunberg/ Between Straat and Hex Rivier, Stell., and in the 
Onderbokkeveld, Drege / Var. y. Swellendam, Zeyher / (Herb. Th. Bth. Hk. D. Sd.) 
An erect, branching, and ramulous bush, 2-4 feet high, variable in habit and in 
pubescence. Leaves in a. and 8. 2-3 lines long; in y. 4-5 lines, and much more 
closely placed. Flowers numerous, small, cream-coloured ; the pedicels in a. } line, 
in B. and ‘y. 4-1 line long. Thunberg’s original specimen quite agrees with Meyer’s 
‘incomta,’ so far as I can judge from the very imperfect scrap I have seen. Our 
var. 8. chiefly differs from it in indument. Var. +. looks, at first sight, much more 
distinct, having almost the aspect of A. verrucosa. — 
112. A. incomta (Thunb. ! Fl. Cap. p. 579, non Benth.) ; branches 
tortuous, silky ; leaves laxly tufted, slender, filiform, curved, obtuse, 
thinly appresso-puberulent ; flowers scarcely pedicellate, solitary, lateral ; 
calyx puberulent-canescent, tts lobes distant, subulate, as long as the campanu- 
late tube ; vexillum thinly silky, ale much shorter than the glabrous carina ; 
ovary 2-ovuled, silky. 
‘Has. 8. Africa, Thunberg. (Herb. Thunb.) 
A small, depressed, or prostrate shrublet, 6-8 inches long, densely much-branched ; 
the branches and ramuli short, much twisted, leafy. Leaves setaceous, 3-4 lines 
long, few in each tuft, squarrose, thinly silky, and subcanescent. Flowers yellow, 
2 lines long, the pedicel }~line long. Described from the original specimen in Herb. 
_ Upsal. . It has not been found by recent collectors. 
113. A. lepida (E. Mey. ! Comm. p. 58); youngest twigs minutely 
canescent ; leaves linear-terete, obtuse, becoming glabrous, pale; flow* 
ers lateral, solitary or in pairs, shortly pedicellate ; calyx minutely cano- 
puberulent, its teeth triangular-acute, much shorter than the tube ; petals 
silky, the roundish vexillum longer than the carina; ovary 2—ovuled, 
silky. Benth.! 1. c. p. 643. A. lactea, litt. B. Thunb. Herb. 
Has. 8S. Africa, Thunberg. Sandy hi iquetberg, Drege! (Herb. Th. D. Bth.) 
A spready, seacteiees mary levee oeiaehod Gea with small, subdistant 
leaves, and slender, rodlike branches. Leaves s-2 lines long, microscopically puberu- 
lent when young, becoming glabrous. Flowers 3 lines long, pale buff, on pedicels 
1 line long. This was included by Thunberg under his ‘ lactea.’ 
-114. A argyrea (DC. Prod. 2. p. 139); whole plant covered with 
short, white, silky tomentum ; leaves tufted, linear-terete, blunt, elongate ; 
_ flowers subsessile, solitary, lateral; calyx turbinate, the teeth shorter 
than tube ; petals pubescent ; ovary 2-ovuled ; legume obliquely ovato- 
lanceolate, acute, silky. Benth./ 1. ¢. p. 644. E. & Z./ 1393. 
_ Has. Uitenhage District, #. ¢ Z./ Albany, Dr. Atherstone, Langekloof, Drege, 
&e. (Herb. Bth., Hk., Sd.) _ 3 : 
Readily known from all allied species by its copious, very white, but short, downy 
pubescence. Stem erect, much-branched, and ramulous. Leaves 3-4 to 6-8 lines 
long, spreading. Flowers 2 lines long, primrose colour. Calyx-teeth either linear 
or somewhat deltoid, variable in length, but never long. Legumes 6 lines long, 
2 lines wide. 
115. A. spinescens (Thunb. ! Fl. Cap. p. 584) ; branches rigid, divari- 
cating, spine-tipped ; leaves very short, Jleshy, obtuse, glabrescent ; flowers 
solitary, lateral, shortly pedicellate; calyx-teeth very short, obtuse, the 
tube silky; vexillum and carina puberulent, longer than the wings ; 
ovary glabrous, 2—ovuled. Benth. l. c. p. 644. ele 
Har. Cape, Thunbery. Near Groenekloof, Drege. (Herb. Th., Bth., Hk., D.) 
A coarse, straggling shrub, with widely spreading branches and ramuli, whose 
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