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Aspalathus. | LEGUMINOS (Harv.) 135 
leaves subfasciculate, subulate, carinate or with recurved margins, mu- 
cronate ; calyx-lobes subulate, setaceo-acuminate, pungent, rather longer 
than the tube ; the vewillum and the fornicate much incurved, carina longer 
than the ale ; ovary 2—-ovuled; legume obliquely lanceolate, glabrous, 
longer than the calyx, Benth! 
Has. On Table Mountain, Mundt/ Thom! Gueinzius/ (Herb. Bth., Hk., Sd.) 
Very similar to A. abietina, but with rather shorter, blunter and more convex 
leaves ; shorter calyx teeth, and more exactly distinguished by the strongly inflexed, 
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fornicate carina. Branches more rigid, a foot long, erect. 
120. A. pedicellata (Harv.) ; shrubby, diffuse, ramulous, glabrous ; 
leaves ternate or tufted, linear, fleshy, blunt or mucronulate, glabrous ; 
flowers 1-3 at the ends of the branches and twigs, pedicellate; calyx 
campanulate, glabrous, its segments lanceolate-acuminate, thickened at 
margin, not pungent, equalling the tube ; vexillum subrotund, thinly 
silky, mucronulate, equalling the short, straight and blunt carina ; ovary 
2-ovuled, legume ? 
Has. Tulbagh, Dr. Pappe/ 245. (Herb. T.C.D.) oy 
A strongly woody, procumbent or depressed, densely leafy and ramulous small _ a 
bush ; twigs quite glabrous, pale, roundish. Leaves tufted on the branches, ternate * oa 
on‘the twigs, 3-4 lines long, quite glabrous, the older obtuse. Flowers pale yellow, ae 
in imperfect umbels ; pedicels 2-3 lines long. This has the aspect of A. galioides” 
and A. marginalis, but differs in inflorescence, petals, glabrous twigs, &c. The 
ovary has a line of hairs on the ventral suture, but is otherwise glabrous. 
121. A. retroflexa (Linn. sp. toor); diffuse or procumbent, slender, 
minutely downy ; leaves tufted, subulate, acute, microscopically puberu- 
lous or glabrescent, the floral shorter than the calyx ; flowers solitary or 
in pairs, sessile ; calyx downy, its lobes green, subulate, acute, mostly 
longer than the tube, shorter than the corolla ; petals glabrous ; ovary 
villous, 2-ovuled; legume lanceolate, silky, twice as long as the calyx. A 
Benth.! 1, c.p. 646. A. galioides, Berg. ; E. Mey. ! ex parte. N Be: 
Van. B. bicolor; calyx-lobes not longer than the tube, strongly reflexed ; vexillum *"~ \™ 
and carina purple on the outside. A. bicolor, E. § Z./ 1404. otk / 
"Van. y. parviflora; leaves not 2 lines long ; flowers 2-2} lines long, the calyx- 
lobes equalling the tube, very patent. A. leptocoma, Pappe! non E. & Z, 
: Has. On the Cape Flats, &c. common. Var. 8. near Doornhoogde, FZ. & Z./ 
* Var. -y. between the Breede and Duivenhoek’s River, ‘Pappe! (Herb. Th., Bth., 
6 a ae 2-4 feet long, spreading over the ground, much branched ; 
the flowering ramuli slender and filiform, 1-2 inches long, generally bare of leaves, 
except a single tuft just below the terminal flowers. Tufts of leaves laxly set, espe-_ 
cially on the smaller branches. Leaves 3 lines long. Flowers 4 lines long, orange 
"yellow ; in 8. purple on the outside. Legume densely clothed with long white, 
silky hairs. Calyx-lobes leaflike, longer or shorter. Var. 7. differs chiefly by its 
small flowers. Pe ee 
- 122. A galioides (Linn. Mant. p. 260, non Thunb.); diffuse or pro- 
cumbent, the branches puberulent; leaves densely tufted, subulate, 
acute, glabrous, the floral about equalling the calyx; flowers in pairs, 
sessile ; calyx nearly glabrous, its lobes leaflike, keeled, acute, twice as 
long as the ribbed tube, and not much shorter than the corolla ; petals 
glabrous, the incurved, obtusely rostrate carina longer than the alz ; 
ovary 2-ovuled, glabrous. — Benth.! 1. c. p. 647. A. galivides, var. foliosa, 
E. Mey.! No. 2357. A.juniperina, Thunb.! Fl, Cap. p. it ee 
