134 LEGUMINOSE (Harv.) [Aspaluthus. 
ends harden into strong spines. Leaves scarcely 1 line long, very thick and fleshy. 
Flowers scarcely 3 lines long, on pedicels 1 line long, pale. 
116. A. spinosa (Linn. Sp. 1000); glabrous or thinly canescent ; the 
branchlets spine-tipped, and generally the leaf-tufts spiniferous; leaves 
tufted, linear-terete or plano-compressed, pointless; flowers lateral, 
shortly pedicellate ; calyx-teeth very short, soinetimes obsolete ; vexil- 
lum oval, scarcely pubescent near the point, equalling the glabrous ale 
and carina ; ovary 2-ovuled ; legume silky-pubescent, acuminate, 2-3 
times as long as the calyx. Benth. l. c. p. 644. E. & Z. No. 1498. Thunb. 
Fl. Cap. p. 584. Zey. 2363. 
Var. 8. flavispina; more glabrous ; leaves more slender ; calyx-teeth, scarcely 
any ; a shorter vexillum and a little longer and more glabrous legume, Benth. A. 
| flavispina, Presl. Bot. Bem. p. 126. 
frea Weowe i, Van. ». inermis ; leaf-tufts destitute of spines. E. Mey. 
OLN i R Var. 8. horrida ; leaves thick, plano-compressed, narrower to the base, pubescent ; 
\ legume shorter and more woolly. A. horrida, E. § Z. 1499. 
Has, Common in dry ground throughout the colony, and extending to Port Natal. 
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to ( (Herb, Th., D., &c. 
A very rigid, divaricate, much-branched bush, bristling at all points with sharp 
ee an spines ; those of the leaf-tufts 4-3 inch long, subhorizontal, sometimes absent. Flow- 
ers sulphur-yellow, 3-3} lines long. Var. 3. is almost intermediate with A. obtusata. 
, 117. A obtusata (Thunb,! Fl. Cap. p. 574); cano-pubescent, the 
branchlets andjoften the leaf-tufts spiniferous ; leaves subfasciculate, flat, 
ly-linear or obovato-linear, very obtuse, narrowed to thebase, canescent ; 
flowers lateral, shortly pedicellate ; calyx oblique, with very short teeth ; 
vexillum silky, equalling the nearly glabrous, blunt carina; legume 
Bo mheecent, acute, 2-3 times as long as the calyx. A. glauca, E. & 
4. 1500, 
Has. Near Oliphant’s River, Thunberg. Gauritz River, E. ¢ Z. (Herb. Th., Sd.) 
This has the habit of 4. spinosa, but the leaves are quite flat, 1-14 lines broad, 
and sometimes narrow-obovate and retuse. In Thunberg’s original specimen, in 
Herb. Upsal, the ramuli are alone spine-tipped ; in E. & Z.’s (Herb. Sond.) almost 
ie y leaf-tuft is also spiniferous. The flowers are like those of A. spinosa, but the 
plekocke. aa oe ae 
7 a rr a 7 11, TERMINALES (Sp. 118-137), 
118. A. abietina (Thunb. ! Fi. Cap. p. 583, non Benth.) ; glabrous ; 
leaves ternate or subfasciculate, linear-subulate, mucronate, flattish ; 
calyx-lobes subulate, setaceo-acuminate, pungent, more than twice as long 
as the tube ; the vexillum and the arched and rostrate carina nearly 
tance as long as the ale ; ovary 2-ovuled ; legume obliquely lanceolate, 
glabrous, longer than the ealyx. A. Jilifolia, B. Mey. ! Linn. 7. p. 58. 
Benth! l. c. p. 646. A, retroflexa, EB. & Z.! 1397, non Linn. Zey.! 418. 
Has. Summit of Table Mountain, C : (H 
Bih, Hk 8d Ts) ountain, Cape, £. § Z./ W.H.H., ge. (Herb. Th, 
A small, erect or spreading shrublet, 12-14 j : ; 
the branches rubescent, striate and shige tee high, subcorymbosely branched ; 
'g. 
young appressedly puberulous, unequal, the longest half inch or more long, all 
_ 19. A. fornicata (Benth. | 1. , P. 646); very minutely strigillose ; 
