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lent on both sides ; stipules minute, toothlike; peduncles capillary, 
much longer than the leaves, laxly 3-4 flowered ; bracts minute ; calyx 
segments setaceo-subulate ; legumes terete, acute, glabrous, patent, 7-8 
seeded. DC. Prod. 2,p.231. H.§ Z.!/ 1587, excl. var. y. E. Mey.Comm. 
p. 99. L. filiformis, var. Thunb. in Herb. Upsal. : 
Has. Table Mountain summit, Ecklon, W.H.H., Dr. Pappe. Riv. Zonderende, 
JA u\Zey-! 2435. Near the Omsameulo, Drege! (Herb. Th., Hk., Bth., D., Sd.) 
ot woody. Stems numerous from the crown, very slender, but ligneous, 1-2 
feet long, spreading to all sides, trailing, and throwing up short, erect branchlets 
and peduncles. Leaves on petioles scarcely 1 line long ; leaflets 5 or 3 on the same 
branch, 2~3 lines long, 14-2 lines wide, very blunt, with a minute mucro and rather 
prominent midrib. Peduncles 2-4 inches long, setaceous, the flowers racemose, 2-3 
lines apart. Legumes } inch long, dark brown, quite glabrous. JE. ¢ Z.’s var. ¥. 
“latifolia,” is I. ovata, Thunb. 
65. I. capillaris (Thunb. Fl. Cap. p. 599); suffruticose, diffuse or 
ascending, much branched, nearly glabrous; branches slender, angular; 
leaves on longish, channelled petioles, 4—6-jugate ; leaflets inear-lanceo- 
late, with involute margins, acute, glabrous or sparsely strigillose ; the 
terminal sessile ; stipules and bracts subulate ; racemes on very long 
peduncles, laxly several flowered; calyx subglabrous, its segments sub- 
ulate ; petals puberulent ; legumes terete-subcompressed, linear, de- 
flexed, glabrous, many seeded. DC. Prod. 2,p.230. H.& Z.! 1615, E. 
Mey.! Comm. Drege, p. 102. 
Has. Mountain sides, Zwarteberg, Caledon, E. § Z./ Dutoitskloof and Groene- 
Bee Drege. Cape Flats, and near Stellenbosch, W.H.H. (Hb. Th., Bth., Hk., 
Root “nick and woody. Stems many from the crown, ascending or procumbent, 
6-12 inches long or more, either quite glabrous or sprinkled with a few appressed 
setze, brown. Leaves rather distant ; the common petiole 14-2 inches long, the first _ 
pair of leaflets generally 3-1 inch from the base. Leaflets 4—6 lines long, 4-1 line 
wide, mostly involute, sometimes flattish, 2-3 lines apart. Peduncles 6-8 inches 
long, erect, slender. Flowers 2-3 lines long, subglabrous or puberulent. Legumes 
1f inch long, } line in diameter, pendulous, dark brown. 
66. I, hedyantha (E. & Z. ! 1614); suffruticose, many stemmed, sub- 
erect, thinly strigillose ; branches ligneous, angular-furrowed ; leaves 
3—-4-jugate, patent ; leaflets linear-oblong or sublanceolate, complicate, 
mucronulate, thinly strigillose or glabrescent; stipules small, subulate; 
racemes on long, slender peduncles, loosely many flowered ; calyx gla- 
brescent, shortly and sharply 5 toothed; petals externally fulvo-serice- 
ous; legumes ...% J. secunda, BE. Mey. Comm. p. 102. 
Has. Mountains on the Eastern Frontier. Near Philipstown, Z. ¢ Z. Between 
Klipplaat R. and Zwartkey, 3800 f. ; Katberg, 4-500 f. ; and between the Gekau 
and 2000 f., Drege) Near Grahamstown, 7. Williamson! Winterberg, 
Mrs. F. W. Barber, No. 50. Spring and autumn. (Herb. Sd., Bth. D., Hk.) 
About a foot high, tufted and densely branched from the base ; the bark brown ; 
the foliage i Leaves close set, 4-3 inch long. Leaflets 4—6 lines long, 
3—1 line wide. Peduncles 4-5 inches long. Flowers 5-6 lines long, ‘“ the large 
vexillum yellow-brown outside, splendid deep crimson within ; ale rich crimson ; 
carina @ crimson, yellow-brown near the tip. Petals very soon falling.” —Mrs. 
Barber. A very beautiful species, well worth i troducing to English gardens. 
67. I. hilaris (E. & Z. ! 1605); suffruticose, thinly strigillose ; stems 
short, subsimple, tufted, suberect, compressed and angular ; leaves close, 
