156 LEGUMINOS& (Harv.) [ Psoralea. 
Has. 8. Africa, Dr. Thom! Bowie! (Herb. Hk.) : 
Very near P, rotundifolia ; but the leaves when young are densely hairy, and 
never quite glabrous, destitute of glands and quite opaque (at least when dry), and 
having a minutely roughened, cartilaginous edge. In size and shape the leaflets 
agree with those of P. rotundifolia. The stipules are broader and the calyx-seg- 
ments narrower and more taper pointed than in that species. The ale are much 
longer than the carina, 
38. P. Zeyheri (Harv. Thes, t. 80); suffruticose, subsimple; stems 
ascending, subterete, hispidulous ; leaves shortly petiolate, trifoliolate ; 
the leaflets of the lower leaves shortly and broadly obovate, of the up- 
per linear-oblong or linear, all mucronulate, impunctate, scaberulous at 
margin, the younger villous, the older glabrescent ; stipules lanceolato- 
subulate ; peduncles terminal and axillary, much longer than the leaves, 
hirsute; spikes oblong, many flowered, bracteate ; calyx densely albo- 
hirsute, pale, veined with purple, its 4 upper segments linear-lanceolate, 
the lowest oblongo-lanceolate, much longer, reticulately veined. 
Has. Mountains over the 24 Rivers, Zeyher, No. 2375. (Herb. Hk., Sd.) 
Stems 6-8 inches high, densely leafy. Leaflets of two shapes ; those of the lower 
leaves 4-5 lines long, 3-4 lines wide ; of the upper 1-1} inch long, 1-2 lines wide. 
Peduncles 4-6 inches long. Calyces very hairy, their lowest segment conspicuous 
in the spike, much longer than the bracts and nearly equalling the corolla. Obvi- 
ously allied to P. rotundifolia and P. Thomii, but with different foliage and calyx. 
39. P. tomentosa (Thunb.! Fl. Cap. p. 606); shrubby, silky and 
silvery, densely leafy ; twigs striate; leaves petiolate, pinnato-trifolio- 
late, leaflets elliptico-lanceolate or elliptical, glabrous on the upper, 
silky and silvery on the under surface, mucronate, penni-nerved ; sti- 
pules lanceolate, equalling the petiole ; peduncles terminal and axillary, 
much longer than the leaves ; heads globose, bracteate, dense ; bracts 
ovato-lanceolate, very villous, bracteoles narrow-lanceolate; calyces wil- 
loso-hirsute, the segments lanceolate, lowest much longer than the rest ; « 
ovary glabrous. DC. Prod. 2. p. 218. and P. sericea, Poir. Dict. 5. p. 687. 
DC. 1. ¢.p. 219. EH. & Z.! 1541. P. pedunculata, Bot. Reg. t. 223. Erio- 
sema captatum, EH. Mey. ! Comm. p. 130. 
Has. Shrubby places. Districts of Geo: Uitenhage and Albany, £. § Z./ 
Drege! Pappe ! 5 F 3 Barber, §e. (Herb. Th, Bth., Hk., Sd., D.) ' 
A small, erect or ascending, slightly branched, half woody shrub, 1-2 feet high, 
the twigs, under sides of leaflets, inflorescence, and young leaves silvery and silky ; 
the older parts glabrescent. Petioles 4-1 inch long. Leaflets 1-2 inches long, $-$ 
inch broad ; the margin slightly recurved. Peduncles 4-5 inches long, erect or 
spreading. Heads villous, with white or dark hairs and the bracts silvery. — 
Carina striate with purple. This has much the habit of an Eriosema, but is a 
true Psoralea. The gland-dots are very minute ; often scarcely obvious. 
40. P. obtusifolia (DC. Prod. 2. p. 221); diffuse or procumbent ; 
branches striate, villoso-canescent ; leaves on longish petioles, pinnately 
trifoliolate, leaflets obovate or elliptical, obtuse, plaited, repando-dentate, 
thinly silky on each side, minutely nigro-punctulate; stipules ovate, 
acute, membranous; spikes axillary, on peduncles shorter than the 
leaf, 4-8 flowered ; calyces densely villous with white hairs ; legume 
villous. #. Mey.! Comm. p. 88. P. plicefolia, FE. & Z.! 1557, and P. 
exigua, H. § Z.! 1558. Trigonella tomentosa, Thunb. Fl. Cap. p. 611. 
Has. Cape, Burchell, No. 1214. Near the Gariep at Verleptpram, and on dry 
