Psoralea. | LEGUMINOS& (Harv.) 151 
lets linear-oblong or cuneate-obovate, recurvo-mucronate, minutely pube- 
rulous or glabrescent, nigro-punctate ; stipules minute, deltoid-acumi- 
nate; racemules subumbellate, 3-flowered, on very short axillary pe- 
duncles, which are crowded in an interrupted, spurious raceme; calyx 
silky, mostly impunctate, its segments linear-lanceolate, taper-pownted, 
much longer than the tube. P. hirta, Thunb. Fi. Cap. p. 609, non Linn., 
nec. Jacq., E. & Z. 1539. 4ey- 2373. , 
Hap. Caledon, Mundt. Bowie. Grootvadersbosch and Gauritz River, Swell. ; and 
_ a E. § Z.! Hassagaiskloof and Zwartkopsriver, Zeyher.! (Herb. Th. Sd. 
Nearly ike to P. triantha, but not so straight or virgate, more canescent and 
with a very different calyx. Three out of four specimens of P. hirta in Hb. Upsal 
belong to this species. E. & Z.’s No. 1540 is rather whiter than 1539, but not other- 
wise different. Leaflets }-} inch long, 1-2 lines wide, mostly acute at each end. 
Flowers small, pedicels equalling the calyx, and generally longer than the peduncles, 
which are sometimes obsolete. Calyx 2 lines long, the tube not 4 a line, rarely 
nigro-punctate. . ~ Zo opt 
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23. P. uncinata (Eck. & Zey.! 15 54); suffruticose, erect, rigid ; 
branches virgate, appress0-pubescent; leaves shortly petiolate, trifoliolate, 
leaflets linear or linear-oblong (some of the lower ones_cuneate-oblong), 
’ incinato-acuminate, glabrescent, complicate-; stipules subulate, longer 
than the petiole; spikes capitate, subglobose, densely many-flowered, on 
very short, terminal and axillary peduncles ; “bracts ovate, bracteoles fi- 
.. liform ; calyx hirsute, its segments much longer than the tube, the 4 
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upper narrow-lanceolate, the lowest twice as broad. P. cephalotes, 
E. Mey. Comm. p. 87. non. E. & Z. * . 
Has. Mountain sides near Tulbagh, Z. § Z.! Klein Diakensteensberg, Drege / 
Stellenbosch, W.H.H. 24 Rivers, Zeyher, No. 444/ (Herb. Hk., Bth., Sd.D.) 
“6. 
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Stems woody at base, 1-3 feet high, not much branched ; branches erect, rigid, 04 4 wal f | 
10-12 inches long, laxly leafy. Leaflets of the lower leaves more or less cuneate- 
oblong or narrow-obovate, about 2 inch long; of the w 1-1} inch long, 1-t4 
lines wide, almost exactly linear, all of egehore 5" at +. Heads 
- Srowded round the ends of the branches, one ter i the rest in ‘axils of the 
- upper leav: on peduncles 2-5 lines long. 
_ Zeyher’s specimens are stronger, with 
somewhat. r flowers... © - 5 
94. P, capitata (Linn. f. Suppl. p. 339)3 “tall, sparingly branched, 
‘laxly leafy or leafless; leaves distant, trifoliolate or unifoliolate, petio-"” 
late; leaflets linear-lanceolate or linear, acute at each end, sparsely pi- 
lose or glabrous, punctate ; stiptiles subujate-acuminate ; peduncles very 
short, many together, densely fascicléd in the upper axils, and aggre- 
: gated in a terminal head, or interruptedly spicato-capitate; calyx va- 
riably pubescent, its segments lanceolate-acuminate. DC. Prod. 2. p. 2 18. 
E.¢ Z.1 1528. E.Mey.!Comm. p.88. P. multicaulis, Jacq. Schoenb.t. 236. 
DOL ep. 217. E: & Zl 1527. 
Has. Common in moisty sandy place#@hroughout the colony. (Herb. Th. Hk., — 
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Bth., Sd., D.) oie sp oe 
‘Stems numerous, 3-4 feet high, rushlike, striate, sometimes quite si or 
branched near the base, the branches simple and curved, variably pubescent. ves 
2-6 inches apart, the petiole variable in length ; lower leaves mostly trifoliolate, the 
upper often unifoliolate, or (as in P. aphylla) reduced to a scale. Flowers very 
densely aggregated at the ends of the branches ; the inflorescence sometimes inter- 
‘rupted, several fascicles closely following each other in an oblong pseudo-spike. 
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Flowers purplish blue. “gts 
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