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150 LEGUMINOS# (Harv.) [ Psoralea. 
19. P. decumbens (Ait. Kew. 3. p. 80) ; suffruticose, trailing, sparsely 
or densely leafy, pubescent or hairy; leaves on short petioles, pinnato- 
trifoliolate; leaflets broadly cuneate or obcordate, recurvo-mucronulate, 
pubescent ; stipules adnate with the petiole, ovato-cuspidate, ciliate; pedi- 
cels very short, axillary, 2-3 together (or crowded towards the ends of 
short ramuli in an imperfect capitulum) ; calyx villous, semi-5-fid, the 
lobes lanceolate. DC. Prod.2. p.217. HE. Mey.Comm. p. 86. E.G Z. 1538. 
Lndd. Cab, t. 282. P. hirta, Th. ex pte. 
Var. 8. subspicata; flowers crowded in the axils of the upper leaves, in an im- 
perfect leafy spike. 
Has. Dry hilly or mountain places throughout the colony. (Herb.,Th., Bth., 
Hk., Sd., D., &c.) 
Stems slender, spreading widely over the soil, frequently throwing up short, erect 
ramuli ; the branches long and filiform, procumbent. . Petioles 2~3 lines long. Leaf- 
lets 4-5 lines long, 2-3 wide at the truncate? or deeply emarginate extremity, mi- 
nutely black-dotted. Pubescence copious or scanty, never quite absent. The flowers 
either issue in small tufts from the axils of all the leaves, or only from the upper 
ones ; pedicels 3-1 line long: DOC. erroneously refers Thunberg’s “P. mucronata” 
to this species, instead of to P. aculeata. PF 2% 
2, FASCICULATE. (Sp. ‘s) 
*% : 
20. P. polysticta.(Benth.!); erect, virgate, densely leafy, the twigs | 
hairy ; leaves trifoliolate,.swbsessile ; leaflets cuneate-oblong, very blunt, 
recurvo-mucronulate, nigro-punctate and pellucid-dotted, ‘glabrescent ; 
stipules minute, triangular; tufts of flowers subsessile, axillary, 4-5 
flowered ; calyx tomentulose, campanulate, shortly 5-toothed ; the teeth 
triangular; legume tomentose. Benth. !in Herb. Hook. Zey.! 449. 
Has. Doorn Kop, Burke and Zeyher! (Herb. Hook,, Sond.) : 
_ A virgate shrub, with a good deal of the aspect of P. obliqua, but having different 
. . 
‘inflorescence, &c. Petioles not half a line long, with minute, fleshy, pubescent sti- 
pules. Leaflets an inch long, the medial rather the longest broadly oblong, with 
peduncles, which are crowded’ in an’ interrupted spurious-raceme ; ca- 
lyx appressedly puberulent, nigro-punctate, is teeth short, triangular, 
oe Ce Alexander Prior! Willsenberg,’Zeyher! 446. (Herb. Hk., Bth.,Sd.,D.)° -— - 
: b 
An erect and rigid, though slender shrub, 2-4 feet high, the branches long and 
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re. 
_ His. Hills near the Berg River ; near. Lauwskloof ; near Breedrivier, aid among * 
“thoxhrubs near the Zwartkops River, Drege? Paarl, Kev. W. Eliott! Caledon, Dr 
22. P. candicans (E. & Z.! 1 540); shrubby, slender ; branches virs” 
gate and ramulous, canescent ; leaves shortly petiolate, trifoliolate ; leaf- 
