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as LEGUMINOS# (Harv.) (Aspalathus. 
Has. Dry ground and by way sides. About Capetown, and throughout the Cape 
District, common. (Herb. Bth., D., Hk., Sd. 
A rigid bush, with the aspect of 4. pungens, from which it is at once distinguished 
by its short, fleshy leaves. Leaves scarcely a line long. Flowers 3 lines, yellow. 
131. A. divaricata (Thunb. ! Cap. p. 582); slender, diffuse, divari-_ 
cate, unarmed (or rarely subspinescent); twigs puberulous; leaves 
short, tufted, terete or trigonous, pungent-mucronate, erect or squarrose, 
glabrous or nearly so; flowers racemulose or subsolitary, shortly ped- 
unculate ; calyx turbinate, puberulous, its teeth deltoid, or deltoideo- 
subulate, pungent, variable in length ; the orbicular, thinly silky vexil- 
lum and the arched and rostrate, glabrous or silky carina longer than — 
the ale ; ovary 2-ovuled; legume obliquely ovato-lanceolate, puberu- 
lous or glabrescent, 2-4 times as long as the calyx. 
Var. a. Thunbergii; leaves squarrose ; calyx-lobes commonly shorter than the 
A. galioides, Sieb.! 159. Zey.! 2359. A. leptocoma, E. § Z./ 1402. A. divergens, Be 
wpe Derare - Oe tube ; legume 3-4 times longer than the calyx. A. divaricata, Benth./ 1. c. p. 651. 
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SAWS 
’  Mey.! Comm. p. 45. 
Var. 8. microphylla; leaves suberect, unequal, the outer shorter and swollen at 
base ; calyx-lobes commonly as long as the tube ; legume twice as long as the calyx 
A. microphylla, DC. Prod. 2. p. 143. Benth.t lec. p. 650. E.G Z. 1401. Zey./ 438. 
Var. y. subinermis ; leaves rather slender, 1~2 lines long ; ,branches rarely spi- 
nescent ; calyx teeth commonly much shorter than the tube. A. subinermis, Benth. 
L. c. p. 650. A. spinescens, E. § Z. 1495, non Thunb, 4 
Has. Dry ground and by way sides, throughout the Colony. 8. and x. in. the A 
Western Districts. (Herb, Th., Bth., Sd., Hk., D.) 
A straggling or procumbent, rigid, but slender, much branched bush, with very 
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4 Nor } 63 spreading branches, rarely spiniferous. Leaves variable in length and direction, t-2, . 
rarely 3 lines long. Calyx teeth sometimes very short, sometimes equalling the 
tube, but variable on the same bush. I cannot, after comparing numerous specimens 
of the three yarinties given above, consider them as more than varieties. ip ah ee 
_ 132, A. ferox (Harv.) ; divaricately much branched, spinous, very |. 
rigid ; leaves. tufted, linear-terete, blunt or mucronulate, glabrous, slén- = =~ 
der ; flowers 4-5, pedicellate, fascicled or racemulose ; calyx turbinate, 
puberulous, its teeth short, triangular, acute, but not pungent; the. 
obovate, silky vexillum and the bluntly rostrate, glabrous carina, longer 
than the ale ; ovary 2-ovuled, silky ; legume ? . 
Has. In barren Karroo-ground. Bosjesveld, Swell., Pappe! 246. (Herb. D.) 
A very stout, rigid bush, with pale aed or white bark ; tales tecater: widely, 
the ramuli at nearly right angles with the branch, and straight, rigid, 1-1} inch. 
long, pointed. Leaves 3-5 lines long, many in the tuft, slender. Umbellate- 
tufts of flowers from the centre of the leaf-tuft, or terminating the spinous ramuli ;— 
in the latter case racemulose. Flowers 2-2} lines long, cream-white, the tip of the | 
purple. Easily known by its purple-tipped white flowers and the non-spinous 8 
133. A. vermiculata (inte Dict. 1 88); ramul e branch 
: . I. p, 288); ramulous, the branches 
ped hae vide leaves a, minute, i obtuse, glabrous or 
Pp ent ; flowers in pairs, pedicellate ; ith short, 
iridingidan Peal TS, pedicellate ; calyx pubescent, with s 
not much shorter than the vexillum: ovary thinly villou ed; — 
: s, 2-oyul 
legume obliquely-lanceolate, Benth. 1. 6 = LAs 1 sanguinea, E. & Ff 
3439,non Thun. A. microphylla, Steud. A. multiflora, litt. «. Herb. Thunb. 
Has. Alpine valleys in the Langekloof, Geo , E. § Z. (Herb. Bth., Hk., D.) 
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