Lessertia.] LEGUMINOS# (Harv.) 217 
able for its purple-spotted legumes. Its peduncles vary from once to twice as long 
as the leaf. 
9. L. candida (E. Mey.! Comm. p. 116) ; ‘shrubby, erect, rigid 
villoso-canescent;’ leaflets distantly 6—8-jugate, lanceolate, silky and 
white on both sides ; ‘racemes shorter than the leaves ; pedicels shorter 
thaw! the calyx ; legumes turgid, obliquely subovate, pubescent, 6-seeded. 
. Mey. 
Has. Aris and Verleptpram, on the Gariep, Drege. (Herb. Sond. 
Of this I have merely ied a leaf and a testing Teatlote 5-6 sa Pl 14 broad, 
acute. 2 
10. L, linearis (DC. 1.c.272); annual (or biennial ?), erect or as- 
cending, sparsely strigillose or glabrescent; leaflets laxly 5-7-8-jugate, 
narrow-linear, obtuse or retuse, glabrous above, sparsely strigillose 
beneath; racemes on long peduncles, laaly many-flowered, elongating ; 
pedicels much longer than the nigro-puberulous calyx; ovary 2-6 
ovuled; legumes compressed, glabrous, shortly stipitate, obliquely 
ovate-oblong, 2-6 seeded. H.¢Z./1651. L. annua, DC.1.c.271. #. Mey! 
Comm, p.117. E.& Z.! 1648. L. propinqua, £.§Z.! 1650. Colutea l- 
nearis, Thunb.! Cap. p. 604. Zey.! 468, 2394. 
Has. Picketberg and Verlooren Valley, Thunberg/ Moist spots round Capetown 
and Campsbay, Pappe! Zwartland and Saldanha Bay; Olifants R. Clanw. ; Gauritz 
R., Swell. ; Zwartkops R., Uit., Z. ¢ Z./ Klipfontein and Hassagaiskloof, Zeyher. 
(Herb. Th., Bth., B., Hk., D.) 
A slender, wiry annual (perhaps occasionally subperennial), 12-18 inches high. 
Leave few and distant. Stipules minute, triangular. Leaflets 5-8 lines long, 1 line 
wide, often infolded. Peduncles longer, often much longer than the leaves, becoming 
rigid and arched in fruit.» Fl. 3 lines long, purple. Legumes often veiny, 2 inch 
long, 6-7 lines wide, the ventral suture straightish, the dorsal hemispherical. The 
figure in Hook. Exot. Fl. t. 84 is doubtful. wee 
11. L. subumbellata (Harv.); herbaceous, perennial, decumbent, 
nearly glabrous or sparsely strigillose; leaflets 5-6-jugate, oblong or li- 
near-oblong, obtuse or mucronulate ; stipules small, triangular ; pedun- 
cles longer than the leaf, subumbellate, 4-8 flowered ; pédicels equalling 
the puberulous calyx; legumes glabrous, compressed, obliquely oblong, 
many seeded. ey. 2392, 2393- 
Has. Grassy places and wood sides, Voormansbosch, Swell., Zeyher! Pappe! 119. 
(Herb. Hook. Sd. D.) ; mS i 
Root woody. Stems numerous, I 2-18 inches long, subsimple, Sy and 
furrowed. Pubescence very scanty, of a few appressed, rigid bristles. etiole 1-1} 
inch long; leafl. 3-4 lines long, 1 line wide. Peduncle 2-3 inches long, erect, rigid 
in fruit, floriferous at the summit only. Legume 1-1} inch long, 4 inch wide ; 
ovules 16-20, z 
12, L. pulchra (Sims. Bot. Mag. t. 2064) ; suffruticose at base, dif- 
fuse or ascending, the multangular and striate stem, the petioles and pe- 
duncles glabrous or nearly so; leaflets 6-14-jugate, linear-oblong, mucro- 
nate or retuse, rigid, glabrous (or sparsely pubescent beneath) ; stipules 
obliquely ovato-lanceolate, acute ; racemes on long peduncles, densely 
several flowered, subcorymbose or oblong ; rachis nigro-pilose ; pedicels 
equalling the nigro-pilose calyx or longer ; ovary several ovuled, gla- 
brous; legumes broadly-elliptical, obtuse, acute at base, nearly equal- 
