218 LEGUMINOS& (Harv.) [Lessertia. 
sided, glabrous, compressed, 4-6 seeded. DC. Prod. 2,p.272. H& ZI 
1640. EH. Mey.! Comm. p. 117. L. astragalina, Meisn. Lond. Journ, 2, 89. 
Galega striata, Thunb.! Vicia capensis, Berg! Cap. p. 21 0 
Van. 8. luxurians ; larger and stronger in all parts 3 leaflets puberulous beneath ; 
racemes longer and many flowered, the rachis and calyx very dark. Galega striata, 
Thunb! Lessertia pubescens, Eg Z.! No. 1647. 
Var. y. alpina ; dwarf, densely ceespitose ; leaflets obovate, cuneate or obcordate ; 
peduncles not twice as long as the leaf, laxly racemose. L. venusia, FE. & Z.! 1641, 
Has. Sides of Table and Devil’s Mt., E. & Z.! W.H.H. &e. Drakensteenberg, 
Drege! Bp. shady places on Table Mt., £.¢Z./ W.A.H. y- on the Cederberg, 
E. & Z,! Mundt.” (Herb. Th., Hk., Bth., D., Sd.) 
Root and base of the stem woody. Stems herbaceous, spreading, branched chiefly 
near the base. Leaves closely multi-jugate, bright green. Racemes short or slightly 
elongating, the peduncle becoming rigid in fruit ; flowers bright purple, 4~s lines 
long. Stipules larger and more leafy than in most others. Legumes t4 inch long, 
9-10 lines wide, tapering at base, but scarcely stipitate. 8. is a strong-growing 
13, L. Pappeana sate. ; herbaceous, ascending, the sulcate stem _ 
and peduncles and the petioles thinly pubescent with soft, short, spreading 
hairs ; leaflets 10-14-jugate, linear-lanceolate, obtuse, mucronate, glabrous 
above, thinly pubescent beneath ; stipules ovato-lanceolate, acuminate ; 
peduncles 3-4 times longer than the leaves, racemose, many flowered, 
elongating ; pedicels nigro-pubescent, longer than the puberulous calyx; 
legume (immature) glabrous, compressed, oblong, 8-12 seeded. ,, as- 
tragalina, Pappe! non Meisn, 
Has. Tulbagh, Pappe! (Herb. D.) 
Stems 2 feet long, pale yellowish, strongly rib-furrowed, somewhat fistular ; the 
peduncles similar, 12-14 inches long, ing flowers from 5-6 inches below the 
summit upwards. Petioles 3-4 inches long ; leaflets 9-10 lines long, 2 lines wide. 
Pubescence Scanty and soft. Flowers s— lines long, the dark purple carina some- 
what rostrate, The half-ripe legumes are linear-oblong, both margins nearly straight, 
probably the dorsal afterwards becomes arched. Most like Z. pulchra, var. 
lucurians, but the raceme is much longer, the flowers larger, the calyx less hairy, 
and the leaflets different, the ovules more numerous, and the legumes probably 
-p. 118. L. tumida, E. § Z,! 1646. 
Has. Philipstown ; also (ZL. tumida) at Wagenhausgrotte, Swell, and Adow, Uit. 
E.G ZA Buffel River and between Gekau and Basche, Drege / (Herb. Bth., Sd.) 
Stem 12-18 inches long, pale. Leaves subdistant ; the petiole 14-2 inches long, 
the leaflets 4-5 lines apart, 7-8 lines long, 1 line wide. Peduncles 3-4 inches long, 
the last a a ate Legumes about an inch long, nearly 3 inch wide. The 
specimens . tumada, - examined are i ect ; they dif- 
ferent, but closely allied form, — ee 
: ‘16. L, tenuifolia (E. Mey. ! Comm. p. 117); half herbaceous, erect 
or ascending, the angular stem, the peduncles and petioles thinly albo- 
