Aspalathus. | - LEGUMINOS® Gems, 139 
A densely, much-branched, erect shrub, 1-2 feet high, with very minute leaves 
and a profusion of reddish, silky flowers. Leaves }-} line, rarely 1 line long. Flow- 
ers 3-4 lines, the corolla more than twice as long as the calyx. The calyx-teeth vary 
in length, sometimes they are nearly half as long as the tube, usually much less. 
134. A. Agardhiana (DC. Prod. 2. p. 143); silky-canescent, with 
very minute white hairs; leaves ternate, narrow-lanceolate, acute, flat, 
mid-ribbed ; racemules teminal, few-flowered; calyx silky-canescent, 
. the teeth ovate, acute, shorter than the tube; petals villous; ovary vil- 
lous,-4—ovuled. Benth. 1. c. p. 653. 
Has. From Forsyth’s Herbarium. (Herb. Benth.) 
Leaves }-inch long, or rather longer, usually 3, springing from a woolly leaf- 
tubercle, as in other Aspalathi. 
~ 185. A. armata (Thunb. Fl. Cap. p. 577); densely canescent ; leaves 
tufted, subulate, pungent-mucronate, or mucronulate, albo-sericeous, the | 
old ones at length glabrate ; flowers in a terminal pluriflowered raceme, | 
longer than the leaves, subsessile; calyx villous, with needle-pointed 5 
‘ teeth scarcely shorter than the tube ; petals villous, scarcely longer than 
the calyx ; ovary 2-ovuled ; legume shortly and obliquely sublanceolate, 
turgid, tomentose. Benth. i. c. p. 652. HL. Mey. Comm. p. 51. Buchen- 
roedera teretifolia, E.G Z. 1356. 
Has. Bergvalley, Clanwilliam, £. ¢ Z., Drege. (Herb. Th., Bth., Hk., D.) 
A much-branched, erect bush, 12-15 inches high, all the younger parts clothed 
with soft, white, slender hairs. Flowers 4-6 or 8 in a terminal, inch-long raceme, 
small and white. Petals less exserted than in any other species. Calyx 14 line long. a 
Legume more turgid than in others of this section. | 
186. A. corymbosa (E. Mey. Linn. 7. p. 159); leaves solitary or 
subfasciculate, very As linear-terete, rigid, glabrous or thinly puberu- 
~ lous, acute ; flowers on short pedicels, few, in pairs or imperfect - 
racemules ; calyx turbinate, downy, its teeth lanceolate, shorter than 
the tube ; vexillum pubescent, as long as the pubescent carina ; ovary 
2-ovuled; legume dong, lanceolate, scarcely puberulent. Benth. l. c. p. 
652. BE. & Z. 1396. A. cognata, Presl. Bot. Bem. p. 126. Lebeckia con- 
taminata, Thunb. ! Cap. 501. a 
Has. Alpine and subalpine situations of the western districts. Table Mountain, B Rs 
common, as on the Sadetbice, E.&Z., Drege, gc. (Herb. Th., Bth., Hk., D.,. Sd.) Beck i 
_ Diffuse or procumbent, not much-branched ; branches ascending, curved, 1-2 feet Dug. 2 re 
~ Jong, with distant nodes. Leaves 1-14 inch long, thicker than in the following _ a 
species. Racemules very short, 2-4 flowered. Calyx 1 line long. Corolla 3 lines, 
_yellow. Legume 7-8 lines long, 14 broad. - 
; 187. A. tenuifolia (DC. Prod. 2. p. 143); leaves solitary, or sub- 
 fasciculate, very long, tereti-subulate, rigid, glabrous, subacute ; flowers 
few, interruptedly racemose ; calyx glabrescent, obliquely-turbinate, the 
‘teeth much shorter than the tube; vexillum puberulous, longer than the 
much arched, glabrous carina. Benth. l. c. p. 653- | 
Has. Pi District, Drege./ (Herb. Bth., Hk., D.) 
_ Very hte ates, but ae ee a laxer pubescence, calyx 
teeth, and a different corolla. Leaves needleshaped, but not very sharp, 1-14 inch 
jong. Racemes lax, elongating, with widely distant flowers ; pedicels 2-3 lines long. 
: 12, PEDUNCULARES. (Sp. 138-148.) aie 
188. A, capillaris (Benth. ! 1. c. p. 653); diffuse or procumbent, 
