Psoralea} LEGUMINOS (Harv.) ~ 4149 
cels (or 2-3 on a minute common peduncle) ; calyx silky-canescent, its 
teeth triangular-acute. 
Has. Zwarteberg Mountains near Wanhop, George, Dr. Alexander Prior. Moun” 
tains of Graaf Reinet, Jan. Mrs. F. W. Barber. (Herb. Bth., D.) 
A densely branched shrub, 1-3 feet high, with the habit between that of P. acu- 
leata and P. bracteata; remarkable for the great size and prominence of its glands, 
and the silvery pubescence of all the young parts. The leaves dry pale ; the leaflets are 
4-5 lines long, 2 lines wide at top, slightly notched at the extremity and scarcely or 
not at all mucronulate. Flowers purple, crowded in the axils of the upper leaves, 
occasionally subpedunculate. The foliage is very strongly scented. 
16. P. aculeata (Linn. Sp. 1074); shrubby, erect, much branched 
and densely leafy, glabrous ; leaves trifoliolate, leaflets small, cwneate, 
sharply recurvo-mucronate; stipules subulate, persistent, rigid ; pedicels 
from the axils of the upper leaves, 1-2 together, with two ovate, connate 
bracts near the summit; calyx enlarged after flowering, its lobes ovate- 
acuminate. DC. Prod. 2. p. 217. Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 146. Bot, Mag.t. 21 58. 
E.&Z.! 1545. P. mucronata, Thunb. Cap. p. 606, fide Herb. Ups. 
Has. On the summit and eastern slopes of Table Mountain, common, E. §& Z 
W.H.H., $c. (Herb. Th., Bth., D., Hk., Sd.) 
A strong growing densely branched, woody bush, 2-4 feet high, closely covered 
with small leaves. Petioles 1-2 lines long; leaflets 3 lines long, 1 line wide at top, 
rather concave and somewhat keeled, exactly cuneate. The stipules remain after the 
leaves fall, and are sharp, but scarcely spiny. The large blue flowers are sometimes 
crowded together towards the ends of the branches, but do not form a true raceme, 
17. P. carnea (E. Mey.! Comm. p. 85); fruticose ; twigs rusty, pu- 
bescent ; leaves trifoliolate, subsessile, leaflets narrow-dblong or cuneate- 
oblong, recurvo-mucronate, sub-complicate, thickish, glabrous, the 
_ younger ciliate on margin and keel; stipules deltoid, membranous ; 
flowers axillary, subternate, on short pedicels; calyx pale, netted with 
dark veins, the segments ciliate, acuminate-mucronate, the lowest longest, 
broadly ovate, the rest lanceolate. in 
Has. Western Districts? no station assigned, Drege/ (Herb. Benth.) _ 
Shrubby, slender, ramulous, the twigs reddish brown, the youngest hairy, the 
oldest pubescent. Leaves 4-1 inch apart ; petioles not 1 line long ; leaflets 4 inch 
long, 1-2 lines wide, coriaceous, minutely pellucid-dotted, but not nigro-punctate: . 
Podiaslee very short, from, the axils of the upper leaves, 1—-flowered, 2-3 together, * 
“ subracemose,” (E. Mey.) Calyx remarkably veiny, its lowest lobe longer and broader 
than the rest. Of this I have only seen a very imperfect specimen in Hb. Benth. 
18. P. repens (Linn. Mant. 263) ; suffruticose, procumbent or pros- 
trate, sparsely leafy ; leaves on long petioles, pinnato-trifoliolate, leaflets 
cuneate-oblong, subelliptical or obovate, thickish, obtuse or retuse, gla-_ 
brous; stipules minute, ovate, acute; pedicels axillary, 2-3 together, = 
about equalling the petiole, bibracteolate above the middle ; calyx cam- 
panulate, glabrous or villoso-ciliate, shortly 5-toothed. DC. Prod. 
p. 217. Thunb. Cap. p. 607. H.d Z.! 1525, also P. diffusa, E. & Z. 1526. As 
Phe Sandy flaés in moist places throughout the colony. (Herb. Th., Bth., Hk, = 
, D., &e. : Ja Scar, 
Stems halt herbaceous, spreading widely over or under the sandy soil, often root-— 
ing at the nodes, the whole plant nigro-punctate, either glabrous or the younge 
parts and inflorescence more or less pubescent. _ Petioles 1-2 inches long; — 
5-7 lines long, variable in breadth and shape. Pedicels 1-1} inches long: the brac- 
teoles minute, toothlike. Flowers blueish purple, the tip of the carina very dark. 
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