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Psoralea. | LEGUMINOS (Harv.) 153 
Has. Dry hills in the Western Districts. Zwartland, Z.¢Z.! Malmsbury, Pappe / 
Paarlberg, Drege! Lion’s Mountain, Capetown, W.H.H. (Herb. Hk., Bth., Sd. D.) 
_ A very rigid, sparsely leafy bush, 2-3 feet high and wide, the branches and twigs 
issuing to all sides at right angles, all parts thinly canescent with appressed or sub- 
patent, short hairs. Petioles 2-3 lines long ; leaflets 3-5 lines long, 2-3 lines wide, 
blunt or mucronulate, sometimes emarginate and often folding together when dry, 
Tufts of flowers rarely in the axils of the uppermost leaves, usually 4-1 inch apart 
on a flexuous, naked prolongation of the branch. This comes very near P. Stachydis, 
but has a very different pubescence, and shape of leaflets, &c. 
29. P. argentea (Thunb. ! Fl. Cap. p. 608); shrubby, slender, dif. 
fuse or suberect; twigs minutely silky; leaves shortly petiolate, tri- 
foliolate, leaflets obovate, recurvo-mucronulate, thinly silky-silvery on 5 
both sides; stipules minute, subulate; flowers ternate, shortly pedicel- 
late, either axillary or in an interrupted, leafless, terminal pedunculate 
raceme; bracts minute; calyx silky-canescent, its lobes lanceolate, the 
two uppermost semi-connate. DC. Prod. 2. p. 218. E. Mey. |! Comm. 
 —p. 87. 
Has. §. Africa, Thunberg! Krakkeelkraal, Drege/ (Herb. Th., Hk., Bth., D.) 
A slender, diffusely much branched, leafy shrub, with many filiform twigs, all 
parts clothed with very short, appressed, whitish, glossy pubescence. Thunberg says 
it is “erect.” Petioles 1-2 lines long. Leaflets 3-4 lines long, 2-2} wide at top, 
when dry folded together. Inflorescence nearly as in P. hirta, but the flowers are 
evidently pedicellate, and the rachis not flexuous. The leaflets are minutely pellucid 
dotted, but not nigro-punctate. Flowers 2-24 lines long. 
30. P. striata (Thunb. ! Fl. Cap. p. 608); suffruticose or shrubby, 
thinly canescent ; twigs striate, pubescent, subvirgate, laxly leafy ; leaves 
shortly petiolate, trifoliolate ; leaflets obovate-oblong, recurvo-mucro- 
nate, appressedly pubescent, nigro-punctate stipules subulate ; pseudo- 
spikes terminal, pedunculate, somewhat interrupted, laxly or rather 
closely flowered; bracts minute ; calyx cano-pubescent, punctate, its 
lobes ovate or ovato-lanceolate, acute, the 2 upper subconnate. . 
Prod. 2. p. 218. HE. Mey. Comm. p. 87. P. rumeola, E. & Z11551. £. 
Eckloniana, Otto! Zey. No. 441. (421, Hb. Sond.) 
Var. 8. gracilis; more slender, with longer and laxer spikes and smaller flowers. 
P. albicans, E. § Z. 1556. 
Has, Doorn River, Bokkeveld, Thunberg/ Grasbergsrivier, Drege/ Clanwilliam, 
Zeyher! Gaurita R., Swell., £. ¢ 2. ! Swellendam, Dr. Thom! (Herb. Th., Bth., 
ag he ot ing or slender suffrutex, 1-2 feet high or more, becoming woody in 
age, the branches, leaves, and inflorescence clothed with very short, whitish hairs, 
which give a pallid aspect to the whole t. Petiole 2-3 lines long, sometimes 
produced a little beyond the lateral pair of leaflets. Leaflets 1-1} inch long, 4 inch 
wide, frequently complicate, the slender veins obvious on the lower surface. Dots 
minute, im . Calyces somewhat enlarged in frvit. Var. 8. from Olifant’s R., 
illi is smaller and more slender ; but I think not specifically different. 
31. P. bracteata (Linn. Mant. 264); shrubby, erect or procumbent, 
densely leafy; twigs pubescent or subcanescent; leaves trifoliolate, 
subsessile; leaflets broadly obovate or obcordate, mucronulate, pellucid- 
dotted, glabrous or the younger subvillous ; stipules obliquely ovato- 
lanceolate, acuminate, striate, mann Dean ns Ae ses sessile, 
oval or oblong, densely many flowered, ; brac membranous, "anit 
variable in ace and shape; calyx villous or glabrescent, its segments 
