216 LEGUMINOSH (Harv.) [Lessertia. 
glabrous, subcompressed, stipitate, (small), broadly obovate or suborbi- 
cular, 1-4 seeded. Zey./ 2391. 
Has. Near Rustbank and Ezelsfontein, 3800f., Drege, Buffaljagdriver and Riet- 
kuil, Zeyher. (Herb. Hk., Sd.) 
Near L. spinescens, but more erect, with long, straight, ribstriate branches ; much 
longer peduncles and smaller legumes. Petioles 13 inch long. Peduncles 3-4 inches, 
erect. Legumes 6-7 lines long, 4-5 broad. Leaflets 2-5 lines long, 1-2 broad. 
6. L. perennans (DC. ? 1. c. 271); suffruticose, erect, virgate, the 
ribstriate stem, the petioles and peduncles thinly silky ; leaflets 8-10- 
jugate, elliptical or elliptico-lanceolate, acute or mucronate, thinly silky- 
villous on one or both sides ; stipules lanceolate-acuminate, membran- 
ous; peduncles much longer than the leaves, laxly racemose, at length 
‘rigid ; pedicels much longer than the puberulous calyx; calys-lobes 
taper povnted ; legume glabrous, compressed, (small), obliquely obovate- 
oblong, stipitate, mucronate, 3-4 seeded. #, Mey.! Oomm. p. 117. 
Has. Grassy places in Albany and Caffraria. Between Kachu and Zandplaat, 
and between Gekau and Baasche, Drege. Brooker’s Hill, N. atal, Sanderson. Gra- 
hamstown, Genl, Bolton. (Herb. Bth., Hk., D., Sd. 
2-3 feet high, subsimple or branched from below, the branches erect, straight or 
incurved ; the stem fistular, pale. Foliage subcanescent ; petioles 14-2 inches long, 
Peduncles 3-6 inches long. Flowers 2-24 lines long, white or pale-purple. Legumes 
8-9 lines long, 5-6 lines wide. 
7. L. polystachya ( Harv.) ; erect, virgate, suffruticose, the rib-striate 
stem, the petioles and peduncles villoso-canescent ; leaves short, 7-8- 
jugate, leaflets lanceolate-oblong, villoso-canescent on both sides ; racemes 
on long peduncles, floriferous beyond the middle, many-flowered, elon- 
gating ; pedicels longer than the villous calyx ; ovary glabrous ; legumes 
(small) glabrous, compressed, elliptical, acute, substipitate, 2-3 seeded. 
Zey.! 460, 
Has. Magaliesberg, Burke & Zeyher. (Herb. Hk., Bth., Sd.) 
Seemingly 2-3 feet high, rigid, subsimple, all parts hoary with loose, soft, short, 
and very slender hairs, Peduncles somewhat panicled toward the end of the stem, 
5-6 inches long or more, at first densely flowered ; fl. 2-24 lines long, pale. Petioles 
1} inch long, theTeaflets 2-3 lines apart, 4-6 lines long, about two wide. Legumes 
5 lines long, 3 lines wide, pale yellowish-horn colour, 
8. L. macrostachya (DC. 1. c. p. 272); suberect, virgate, suffruticose 
at base, the striate stem, the petioles and peduncles thinly and softly 
Say 5 leaflets distantly 8-ro-jugate, elliptic-oblong, thinly silky on 
tuse, shortly stipitate, thinly pubescent, about 3-seeded. EZ. Mey.! Comm. 
p. 116, (non E.&Z.!). 
Van. #. atomaria: more slender, with shorter : sokl Se 
with small purple dots. peduncles ; legumes thickly spot 
Stems perhaps 2 feet long, distantly branched, thin! canescent. Petioles 4-5 
inches long, the leaf-pairs half inch apart ; leaflets 5-6 Race long, 2-2} lines wide, 
