136 LEGUMINOS& (Harv.) [Aspalathus. 
= Has. Subalpine situations in the Western Districts, common. (Herb. Th., Bth. 
Hk., D., Sd. 
(. Vacliho A ee shrubby plant, with stronger stems, much more closely set, thicker 
Uw wis and more glabrous leaves, and smaller flowers than A. retroflexca ; the flowering 
Deh branchlets are densely leafy throughout, the flowers nestling among the terminal 
lay leaves ; the calyx tube is ribbed and the ovary quite glabrous. Leaves 2-3 lines 
long, many in a cluster, sometimes glaucous. 
123. A. marginalis (E. & Z.!.1445); much branched, with pubes- 
cent branches; leaves tufted, linear-terete, fleshy, obtuse or submucro- 
nulate, glabrous ; flowers subsessile, 1-2 together ; calyx cano-pubes- 
cent, the lobes green, lanceolate, with reflered margins, acute, longer than 
the tube, one half shorter than the flower; ovary villous, 2—ovuled ; 
legume obliquely lanceolate, silky, twice as long as the calyx. Benth.! 
lic. p. 647. Zey.! 2340. 
Has. Grassy fields, near the Zwartkops River, Z. ¢ Z. (Herb. Bth., Hk., D.) 
A densely branched, ceespitose, small shrub, 8-12 inches high ; the branches sub- 
canescent, densely leafy. Leaves 2~3 lines long, mostly very blunt and slightly 
tapering at base. It is readily known from allied species by its calyx. 
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124. A. exilis (Harv.); rigid, depressed, ramulous, nearly glabrous 
or minutely and thinly canescent ; leaves tufted, tereti-subulate, mucro- 
nate, subpungent ; flowers solitary, or 3-4, subsessile ; calyx campanulate, 
pubescent, its teeth tapering and mucronate, shorter than the tube ; | 
petals pubescent ; ovary 2—ovuled, glabrous. A. albens, E. Mey.! (non 
Linn.) Benth.! l.c. p. 648. in 
age Sandy Hills, in the Cape District, Drege/ Kuilsriver, Pappe/ 164. (Hb. 
A scraggy, low-growing, stunted, much branched, robust and rigid shrub. Leaves 
either green or thinly canescent, squarrose, unequal, 2-3 lines long. Flowers mi- 
nute, 1-14 line long, in terminal 2-4 flowered racemules. Petals changing colour, 
at first pale yellow, afterwards purplish or livid-red. 
125. A. rubens (Thunb.! Fl. Cap. p. 576); canescent ; leaves tufted, 
short, terete-subulate, incurved, subacute, white and silky ; flowers sub- 
sessile, 1-2 together; calyx turbinate, tomentose, with acute teeth 
much shorter than the tube ; petals silky; carina obtuse; ovary 2- 
ovuled ; legume obliquely lanceolate, silky-villous. Benth./ 1... p. 648. — 
Zey.12325. Burch. 4642. , 
a areas Uit., Drege, Zeyher. Sidbury, Burke. (Herb. Th., Bth., 
A slender, suberect or diffuse, much branched bush, 10-12 inches high, all parts 
albo-canescent. Leaves 14-2 lines long. Flowers fulvous or rufescent, 3 lineslong. 
126. A astroites (Linn. sp. p. 1000) ; branches villous ; leaves 
tufted, tereti-subulate, subtrigonous, pungent-mucronate, rigid, spread-_ 
ing, at length glabrate; flowers shortly racemulose, subcapitate ; calyx 
widely campanulate, sparsely pilose, its lobes subulate-pungent, needle- 
pointed, rather longer than the tube ; vexillum pilose on the ridge, as 
long as the glabrous, arched and rostrate carina ; ovary 2-ovuled ; lee 
gume obliquely and broadly lanceolate, glabrous or scarcely hairy. 
Benth.! lc. p.648. Thunb. ! Ft. Cap. p. 582. aes 
Has. Hill sides and mountains, Ca; Districts be 
TB. D. Hk) pe and Stellenbosch , frequent. (Hb. 
; A large, furzelike bush, with very pungent, rigid, and widely spreading leaves, 
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