146 LEGUMINOS& (Harv.) [ Psoralea. 
VaR. a. ; calyx-lobes ovate or ovato-lanceolate, equalling the tube. ; 
Var. 8. ; calyx lobes linear-lanceolate, subfalcate, longer than the tube. P. 
jilifolia, E. § Z. 1532. 
Has. By streamlets in mountain kloofs and on hill sides. Common throughout 
the Western Districts. (Herb. Th., D., Sd., Hk., &c.) : 
Generally a tall, slender, graceful shrub, with rodlike, erect branches, bending 
over with the weight of the pale blue flowers. In alpine situations it grows dwarf, 
with very densely crowded, closely scaly, subcorymbose branches. The pubescence 
is scanty, and sometimes nearly deficient. The young plant usually bears leaves, 
regularly stipulate ; the full grown rarely anything but leaf-scales. or phyllodia, 
without stipules. These are either closely or distantly set, and vary from ovate to 
subulate. The pedicels are rarely as long as the calyx and mostly much shorter. 
The calyx is sometimes nearly glabrots, sometimes pubescent, and again nigro- 
hirsute ; its lobes vary much in length and breadth. ; 
5. P. oligophylla (E. & Z.! 1533); erect or drooping, twiggy, gla- 
brous ; twigs virgate, very erect, laxly leafy ; lower leaves trifoliolate, 
upper mostly unifoliolate ; leaflets narrow-linear, acute; stipules small, 
subulate; pedicels axillary, 1-3 together, much longer than the glabrous 
calyx, bibracteolate near the summit ; calyx-lobes ovate or ovato-lanceo- 
late. P. decidua, ex pte. Thunb. Herb. non Berg. 
Var. a. vera; calyx-lobes ovate, subobtuse, short. £. G Z./ 1533. : 
Var. B. glaucescens; calyx-lobes ovato-lanceolate, acute. P. glaucescens, E. §& Z. 
1534. P. fascicularis, E. M.! Comm. p. 83. Cee 
Has. Moist places in Uitenhage and’ Albany, Z. & Z./ Neat Grahamstown, 
Pappe! Howison’s Poort, Mr. H. Hutton, gc. B. Onderbokkeveld, Drege! EB. Z.1 
A graceful shrub, very like P. aphylla, but quite glabrous, never leafless, though 
often with few and distant leaves ; and constantly known by its long pedicels. The 
leaflets are sometimes flattish and narrow-lanceolate-linear. ‘ 
6. P. restioides (E. & Z.! 1529); suffruticose, erect or ascending, 
many-stemmed, glabrous ; branches incurved, filiform; leaves trifolio- 
late or oftener unifoliolate; leaflets linear-subulate, acute ; stipules _ 
adnate to the base of the petiole, stem-clasping, their points short, tooth- 
like ; pedicels axillary, solitary, not longer than the calyx; calyx-lobes 
lanceolate, rigidly ciliate, the lowest subulate. meee 
Has. Mountain sides, Klynriviers , Caledon, £. § Z. (Herb. Sd., D.) 
_ 12-18 inches high, branched chiefly fon neal the ‘ain Sie nies slender, 
simple, rushlike, rather bare Bree gee Leaflets often wanting, or only one, $-} 
sc long, 4 Paewide, —- 1b not bg ics ve Near P. fascicularis, but with 
; 8 es, r pedi ' i 
sales iso nie _ ab ip podieels, wer leaflets, &. The free points of the 
7. P. fascicularis (DC. Prod. 2. i 217); suffruticose, diffuse. or as- 
oe glabrous ; = tes incurved ; leaves frequent, trifoliolate ; 
ery Rattow-lanceolate, tapering to a very acute point ; stipules 
adnate to the base of the petiole, stem-clasping, their points subulate-acu- 
minate ; pedicels axillary, several together, longish ; calyx-lobes lanceo- 
late-acuminate, the lowest subulate, glabrous, P. Thunbergiana, E. & Z. 
1523. P. tenuifolia, Thunb. Cap. p. 606, 
Hk., D., Sd.) 
A straggling suffrutex, with long, subsimple, densely leafy branches. .Leaflets 
1-14 inch long, }-1 line wide, remarkably re te inted. The stipules are adnate ~ 
for half their length to the petiole, their free-points 3-6 lines long and very slender. 
