Lessertia. | LEGUMINOS ( Harv.) 221 
folded, green above, hoary beneath. Racemes subcapitate, or slightly lengthening, 
much shorter than the peduncles, 8-12 flowered ; all the hairs, except those of the 
calyx white. Flowers 3 lines long, purple. Legumes 5-7 lines long, bladdery. 
23. L, prostrata (DC. 1. c. p. 272); herbaceous, procumbent, the stem, 
petioles, and peduncles sparsely hispid with short, patent hairs; leaf- 
lets 8-12-jugate, lanceolate-linear, obtuse or mucronate, glabrous above, 
sparsely hispid beneath ; stipules ovate-acuminate ; peduncles rather 
shorter than the leaf, 2-3 flowered; pedicels shorter than the nigro-pu- 
bescent calyx; legumes turgid, pubescent, oblong, the ventral suture 
concave or straightish, the dorsal arched. #. Mey./ Comm. p. 118. Colu- 
tea prostrata, Thunb ! Cap. p. 603. 
Has. Verlooren Valley, Thunberg/ Cape Flats, Pappe! 118. 8, Africa, Drege! 
(Herb. Th., D., Sd. 
Root branching, perennial. Stems pale, 10-12 inches long, trailing. Pubescence 
scanty. Petioles 2-3 inches long, the first pair of leaflets } inch from the base ; 
leaflets 6-7 lines long, 1-2 lines wide, green. Peduncles 14 inch long, 2- rarely 
3-flowered. Legume 8-10 lines long, 4-5 wide. Less hairy than L. tomentosa, with 
narrower leaflets, shorter peduncles, and fewer flowers. 
24, L. argentea (Harv.); perennial, erect or ascending, the stems, pe- 
tioles and peduncles appressedly albo-strigose; leaves closely 8-12-jugate, 
leaflets oblong or linear-oblong, obtuse or emarginate, glabrous above, 
thinly albo-strigose beneath ; racemes on long peduncles, shortly several 
flowered; bracts small; pedicels shorter than the albo-strigose calyx ; 
ovary 6-8 ovuled, silvery ; legume broadly elliptic-oblong, obtuse at 
both ends, compressed, subsessile, thinly albo-strigose, 4-6 seeded. Coro- 
nilla argentea, Thunb.! Lessertia villosa, E. Mey.! Linn. 7, p. 169. £.§Z. 
1655; also L. vesicaria, E. & Z.! 1657. 
Var. 8. angustifolia (E. & Z.) ; leaflets narrower, linear, mucronate. — he 
Has. S. Africa, Thunberg! Near Greenpoint, Cape, Pappe! W.H.H. Simon's 
Bay and near Hott. amas and Vischhoek. B. $2. Pperb. Th., D., Hk., Bth., Sd.) 
Stems several, 1-2 feet high, subsimple, erect or ing. Pubescence thinly 
spread, close pressed, the short, rigid, white hairs fixed by a middle point. | Petioles 
3-5 inches long ; leaflets 3-5, in 8. 6—7 lines long, 14-2 lines wide. Stipules tri- 
angular-acuminate. Flowers 3-4 lines long. Legumes 1-14 inch long, 6-8 lines wide. 
25. L. carnosa (E. & Z.! 1642); suffruticose, diffuse or ascending, 
the stem, petioles, and peduncles thinly strigose or glabrescent ; leaf- 
lets closely 7-9-jugate, linear semiterete, rigid, carnose, complicate, fur- 
rowed above, glabrescent; stipules lanceolate ; peduncles longer than 
the leaves, densely corymbo-racemose at the summit ; pedicels scarcely 
equalling the albo-puberulous calyx; ovary canescent, many ovuled ; 
legumes pubescent, broadly oblong, subinflated, the central suture straight 
or concave, the dorsal arcuate, several seeded. Zey./ 2399. 
Has. Karroo-places at the mouths of the Coega and Sondag’s Rivers, E. § Z.! 
Zoutpanshoogdte, Zeyher! (Herb. Bth., Sd.) : a 
Root woody. Stems several, more or less procumbent, 10-12 inches long, rigid. 
Leaves closely set, patent, 1-1} inch long. Leaflets 4-6 lines long, 4 line wide, with 
a narrow furrow on the upper side, otherwise terete, the young ones subpilose, the 
older glabrous. Peduncles 2-3 inches long, the raceme scarcely uncial, 8-12 flowered. 
Legumes 1} inch long, 7-8 lines wide, broadly subfalcate-oblong, acute, obtuse at 
base. 
2. STENOLOBE. (Sp, 26-30.) 
96. L. falciformis (DC.? 1. c. 272); suffruticose, erect or ascending, 
