Aspalathus. | LEGUMINOS (Harv.) 141 
142. A. lanata (E. Mey.! Comm. p. 64) ; slender, suffruticose, softly 
hairy; leaves tufted or ternate, linear, very acute, flat, clothed with long, 
white spreading hairs ; ‘peduncles one-flowered ; calyx-lobes twice as 
long as the tube, subulate, pointless ; vexillum hairy.’, Benth. 1. c. p. 655. 
Has. Piquetberg, Clanwilliam, Drege. (Herb. Bth., Hk., Sd.) 
The specimens here quoted have no flowers. The foliage resembles that of A. capil- 
lavis, but is pilose with copious and long hairs. Leaves 4 inch long, several in a tuft. 
Peduncles 14 inch, with leafy bracts at the summit. 
143. A. faleata (Benth. ! 1. c. p. 655) ; diffuse, much-branched, thinly 
pilose, becoming subglabrous ; twigs terete ; leaves ternate or somewhat 
tufted, linear-lanceolate, acute at each end, fiat, the lateral falcate ; pedun- 
cles 1-3 flowered; calyx-teeth subulate, shorter than the turbinate 
tube ; ovary shortly stipitate, about 6 ovuled ; legume long and lanceo- 
late, puberulent, subturgid. Benth. 
Har. At the 24-rivers, Zeyher, 436. (Herb. Bth., Hk., D., Sd.) 
Stems 2~3 feet long, widely spreading, ascending ; branches rufescent, the young ~ 
ones and the young leaves with more or less abundant, long, white hairs. Leaves 
6-9 lines long, 1-1} lines wide, yellowish-green ; nearly like those of Cliffortia stro- 
bilifera. Legume 10-12 lines long, 2 lines wide, scarcely oblique, tapering to a sharp 
point. ; 
144, A. alternifolia (Harv.) ; diffuse or procumbent, nearly glabrous ; 
twigs angular, furrowed ; leaves solitary, distantly scattered, linear-lanceo- 
late, flat, acute, mucronate, sessile, with thickened margins, glabrous ; 
peduncles opposite the upper leaves or terminal, one-flowered, with two 
minute, subdistant bracts ; calyx-teeth deltoideo-subulate, about equal- 
ling the turbinate tube; ovary stipitate, 2 ovuled; vexillum broadly 
obcordate, puberulous, equalling the glabrous carina; legume 4 
Has. Waterfall, Tulbagh, Dr. Pappe. (Herb. T.C.D.) 
Root woody, deep. Stems many from the crown, 1-2 feet long, decumbent, pale 
red-brown. ‘Leaves }-1 inch asunder, }-1 inch long, 1 line wide, erecto-patent, pale 
green. Flowers at or near the ends of the branches, 3} lines long, pale-yellow ; the 
vexillum brown-backed. Peduncle 3-5 lines long. Legume not seen. The leaves 
are not unlike those of A. falcata in shape, but longer and narrower, and always 
solitary. 
145, A. longipes (Harv.) ; erect, much-branched and ramulous, densely 
canescent-tomentose ; leaves tufted, tereti-subulate, acute or mucronate ; 
peduncles capillary, elongate, 1-2-flowered, with a tuft of bracts close to 
the flowers ; corolla not seen ; calyx-lobes subulate, distant, twice as long 
as the tube ; legume obliquely ovate, silky, scarcely longer than the calyx. 
Ley. 2324. 
Has. Stony places on the hillsides. Riv. Zonder Einde, Zeyher. (Herb. ee 
A tall, virgate, and ramulous bush, everywhere covered with soft, white 
Leaves in dense tufts, 4-§ lines long. Peduncles from the leaf-cluster, (-13 inch o 
long, bearing 2 terminal, sessile flowers, surrounded by a tuft of floral leaves longer 
than the calyx. Legume like that of one of the Leptanthe. Except in 
and legume this looks like A. rubens, but has much longer leaves. 
148. A. niven (Thunb, ! Fl. Cap. p. $76); erect, the whole plant — 
white and silky ; leaves tufted, filiform, blunt; peduncles capillary, 
1-3 flowered; calyx-teeth linear, — blunt, scarcely equa 
tube; ovary 4-ovuled; legume sessile, o0lagt ‘y 
cent, Benth. /l.c.p.655. H.§ Z./ 1391 DC. Prod. 2 PTAA 
