Aspalathus. | LEGUMINOS (Harv.) 137 
unequal in the tuft, the longest dinch long. Flowers orange yellow, 3-4 lines long, 
several together in short, imperfect, terminal racemes ; rachis and pedicels white- 
hairy. Legumes } inch long, mostly glabrous, thickened on the ventral suture. 
127. A. vulnerans (Thunb. ! Fl. Cap. p. 582, non Benth.) ; branches 
divaricate, pubescent, spine-tipped ; leaves tufted, very patent, slender, 
trigono-subulate, pungent-mucronate, glabrous ; flowers racemulose, 3- 
together ; calyx glabrescent, its lobes setaceo-subulate, pungent, scarcely 
longer than the tube ; petals pubescent ; legume obliquely lanceolate, 
glabrous. A. acicularis, E. Mey.! Comm. p. 46. Benth.! 1. ¢. p. 649. 
Has. Cape District. Hills at Ebenezer, and thence to Kamiesberg, Drege, 
W.H.H. (Herb. Th., Bth.) 
Much more slender than A. astroites, with spreading or divaricate branches, fewer 
and more slender leaves, and smaller and paler flowers. Leaves acicular, 3—} inch 
long. Flowers 23-3 lines long, in a lax, terminal, subsecund raceme, Except in 
its inflorescence this very closely resembles A. wlicina, E. & Z. 
128, A. pungens (Thunb.! Fl. Cap. p. 584); divaricately much 
branched, spinescent ; leaves tufted, linear-terete, mucronate, glabrous ; 
flowers racemulose ; calyx pubescent, the teeth triangular-acuminate, 
needle-pointed, shorter than the turbinate tube; the vexillum and the 
arched and rostrate carina silky, longer than the ali ; ovary 2—ovuled ; 
legume obliquely lanceolate, silky-villous. £. § Z./ No. 1494. A. se- 
cunda, E. Mey.! Comm.p. 47. Benth. 1. c. p. 649. 
“Has. Near Brackfontein, Clanwilliam, E. § Z.1 Riebeckskasteel, Drege, Bowie, 
Ge. ferb. Th., Bth., D., Hk.) 
nsely branched and ramuliferous ; every branchlet ending in a needle-pointed 
reddish or yellow spine. Leaves 2-3, rarely 4 lines long, slender, but not so sharp 
as in A. vulnerans. Flowers on a spinescent rachis, 4—5 lines long, yellow. Legumes 
fe = 5 lines long. This is the true ‘pungens’ of Thunb. ! in 
129. A. genistoides (Linn. Mant. p. 261) ; unarmed, with virgate 
branches and ramuli ; twigs downy ; leaves tufted, linear-terete, blunt 
or mucronulate, glabrous or nearly so ; flowers pedicellate, racemulose ; 
the teeth of the thinly silky or glabrescent calyx deltoideo-subulate, 
needle-pointed, distant, shorter than the turbinate tube ; petals thrice 
as long as the calyx, puberulent, the long and straightly rostrate carina ae 
somewhat longer than the ale; legume obliquely ovato-lanceolate, ee 
thinly silky. Benth./ 1. ¢. p. 650. Thunb. Cap. p. 581. aah aballs if) 
~. Has. 8. Africa, Thunberg/ Waterfall, Tulbagh, Dr. Pappe / 240. (Hb. Th., D.) ke Oat jal 
An erect or spreading bush, with rodlike branches, and rodlike, very erect ramuli. Gs 
Leaf-tufts densely set, many leaved ; leaves pale green, squarrose, 3-4 lines long. pe 
-Racemules 4-5 flowered, ending the lateral branches. Flowers bright yellow, like ee 
those of a Genista, 5 lines long ; the vexillum ample ; the carina bent at aright 
angle, with a long, straight point. 3 ue 
180. A. acuminata (Lam. Dict. 1. p. 287); divaricately much ¢ 
branched, spinescent ; leaves subfasciculate, very short, trigonous, fleshy, — 
subobtuse or mucronate and pungent, nearly glabrous ; flowers 1-3, 
‘racemulose, pedicellate ; calyx turbinate, puberulous, its teeth triangu- 
lar-acuminate, needle-pointed, shorter than the tube; the ovate vexu- 
lum and the arched and beaked carina silky, longer than the alee 5 
_ ovary 2-ovuled ; legume obliquely lanceolate, downy-canescent. Benth. 
Le. p. 650. ee 
