140 .  LEGUMINOS# (Harv.) [ Aspalathus. 
slender, nearly glabrous ; leaves subternate or tufted, narrow-linear, 
very acute, tapering at base, flattish ; peduncles capillary, one-flowered ; 
calyx-lobes setaceo-subulate, distant, rather exceeding the turbinate 
tube ; ovary sessile, 6~ovuled ; legume lanceolate. Benth. 1. ¢. p. 658. 
Ononis capillaris, Thunb. Fl. Cap. p. 585. A. pedunculata, litt. b. E. Mey. 
in Hb. Drege. 
Has. Summit of Table Mountain, common, Thunberg, W.H.H., ge. (Herb. Th., 
D., Bth., Hk.) 
A very slender, trailing suffrutex, with many capillary branches, 2~3 feet long ; 
the internodes from } inch to one or more inches apart. Leaves sometimes solitary, 
often ternate or quinate, 4-3 inch long, obviously narrowed toward the base. Pedun- 
cles 1-2-3 inches long, bracteate just below the flower ; bracts setaceous, Flowers 
4 lines long, yellow: the vexillum very broad, and much longer than the keel, 
minutely silky. 
139, A. pedunculata (1 Her. Sert. Angl. t. 26) ; diffuse or ascending, 
slender, glabrous or nearly so ; leaves tufted, rarely ternate, linear-filt- 
Sorm, subterete, acute ; peduncles 1-3 flowered, with setaceous bracts ; calyx- 
teeth subulate, about as long as the turbinate tube; ovary sessile, 
6-ovuled ; legume lanceolate. Benth. 1. c. p. 6 54. Bot, Mag. t. 344. A, 
squarrosa, Thunb, in Hb, Upsal (A. squamosa, Fl. Cap. p. 581). A, bi- 
Jlora, E. Mey. ? Comm. p. 64. Acropodium suffruticosum, Desv. 
Has. Groenekloof, Dr. Pappe. (Herb. Th., Hk., D., Sd.) 
More erect and stronger than A. capillaris, with narrower and less acute leaves, 
and frequently 2-3 flowered peduncles. It is known from the two following species 
by its sessile ovary and 6-ovules. Leaves 4-{inch long. Peduneles 1-14 inch long. 
Flowers 4-5 lines long, yellow ; the broad vexillum thinly silky. 
140. A. nudiflora (Harv.) ; diffuse, slender, nearly glabrous ; leaves 
mostly solitary, linear-filiform, flattish, acute or subobtuse ; peduncles 
flowered, with minute, subremote, toothlike bracts ; calyx-teeth subulate, 
scarcely as long as the turbinate tube ; ovary shortly pedicellate, 2-ovuled 
Zey. 2362, 
' Has. Between Knoflockskraal and Kleinhowhoek, Zeyher. (Herb. Hk., Sd.) 
_A diffusely flexuous, perhaps suberect suffrutex, with long, curved branches, and 
distantly scattered, almost always solitary, nearly uncial leaves. Peduncles oppo- 
site the leaf, and scarcely as long ; both bract and bracteoles very minute, 4—line long. 
Flowers 3 lines long, yellow, purplish externally. This is included by Bentham 
under A, lata, but is readily known by the solitary leaves, minute, almost 
obsolete bracts, and the ovary. In the ovary examined I found but 2~ovules. 
_ 141. A. bracteata (Thunb. ! FI. Cap. p. 581); erect or subdiffuse, 
much-branched, nearly glabrous ; leaves tufted, rarely subternate, linear- 
filiform, subterete, subacute ; peduncles 1-flowered, with leaflike bracts 
equalling the calyx-tube ; calyx-teeth setaceous, equalling the turbinate » 
tube yy Se Pipe a4 ovuled ; = _— acuminate, taper- 
ung at base into a long stipe. Benth. l. c. p. A. pedunculata, litt. b. 
E. Mey. in Herb. Drege. Sicd. Fl. Cap. Wo. = ee 
Has. Paarl and Drakenstein Hills, Dre Tabl tain, 
Th, Bih,, Hk. D, S19 _ Je. le Moun W.HH., &e. (Herb, 
Much-branched, either dichotomous or flexuous, and alternatel decompound. 
Leaves more closely placed, and in denser fascicles than in any of the three preced- 
ing, 4-5 lines or $-inch long, slender, often incurved, Peduneles as long or twice 
as long as the leaves : the flowers and bracts as in A. capillaris. 
