. Pe Sie Th., D., Hk., Bth., Sd.) : cra Uel) 7 
1-3 lines wide, flat, with slightly reflexed margins, prominently midribbed and 
faintly penninerved beneath. Flowers pale blue, scattered ; pedicels {-1 inch long. 
- late, sometimes quite blunt. Flo 
Psoralea. | LEGUMINOS (Harv.) 147 
8. P. tenuissima (E. Mey.! Comm. p. 84); suffruticose, diffuse or 
procumbent, glabrous; branches filiform, subsimple ; leaves distant, on 
short petioles, trifoliolate ; leaflets very narrow-linear, acute ; stipules 
minute, subulate ; pedicels axillary, solitary, about equalling the leaves, 
bibracteolate near the summit ; calyx-lobes narrow, oblong-lanceolate, 
acute. ; 
Has. Dutoit’s Kloof, Drege. (Herb. Bth., D., Hk.) 
A very weak, slender, almost trailing or subascending suffrutex, 1-2 feet long, 
with the aspect of Hallia angustifolia. Petioles 2—3 lines long ; leaflets t-1} inch 
long, } line wide, semiterete. Pedicels 1 inch long, bibracteolate near the summit. 
9. P. glaucina (Harv.) ; suffruticose, diffuse or suberect, glabrous, 
and somewhat glaucous; branches virgate, compressed-trigonous, sub- 
simple ; leaves distant, on longish petioles, trifoliolate; leaflets linear- 
lanceolate, flat, midribbed beneath, acute at each end ; stipules minute, 
subulate ; pedicels axillary, 1-3 together, about equalling the leaves, 
bibracteolate above the middle; calyx-lobes unequal, lanceolate. P. 
axillaris, E. & Z.! 1524, non Linn. Zey. 2387. 
Has. Sand hills at Doornhoogdte, Cape District, 2. § Z, (Herb. Sond. ) 
More robust than P. tenwissima, with much broader leaflets and longer petioles ; 
allied also to P. verrucosa, but not woody, and much smaller and weaker and more 
‘straggling in growth. Leaves 2-4 inches apart; petiole 6-12 lines long ; leaflets 
_ 4-14 inch long, 1 line wide. Flowers spreading or deflexed. 
10, P. verrucosa (Willd. Sp. 3. p. 1343); erect, virgate, glabrous, 
3 leafy; branches dotted ; leaves pinnately trifoliolate or bijugate ; leaf- 
lets Lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, midribbed, acute at each end, pale 
underneath ; stipules small, subulate, recurved ; pedicels axillary, 1-3 _ 
together, much longer than the calyx, bibracteolate near the summit ; 
calyx-lobes obtuse or acute. DC. Prod. 2. p. 216. E. Mey. Comm. p. 83. 
E. & Z. 1520. P. triflora, Thunb. Fl. Cap. p- 606. HE. d& Z. 1521. P. an- 
gustifolia, Jacq. Schoenb. t. 226. Burch. Cat. 4218. 
~ Hap. Moist places, Langekloof, Drege. Near the Zwartkops River, 2.2. Pappe, 
‘erect, leafy shrub, 4-6 feet high; the smaller branches rough with raised © ie 
points, striate. Petioles nearly 4 inch long ; leaflets petiolulate, 1-1} inch long, nell i 
ee te ribbed and nigropunctate ; its lobes broadly ovate and short, or acute and — 
subfalcate. 
_ 11. P. axillaris (Lim, f, fide E. Mey.! Comm. p. 83) ; erect, virgate, 
glabrous, leafy ; branches dotted ; leaves pinnately trifoliolate ; leaflets 
pb ‘acute at base, obtuse and mucronate at the apex, the me- 
dial longest; stipules minute, subulate, spreading ; pedicels axillary, — 
subsolitary, nearly equalling the leaves, bibracteolate near the summit; 
calyx-lobes ovate, obtuse. DC» Prod. 2. p. 217? P. linearis, £. GZ. 
Very nearly related to P. verrucosa and perhaps a mere vari 
in the shape and size of the leaflets. Petioles 2-3 lines long ; = 
inch long, lateral } inch ower lines wide, round- 
vers not so numerous as in P, verrw 
The ‘P, linearis,” b. is not in Herb. Upsal. 
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