Lessertia. | LEGUMINOSA (Harv.) 94 
Stems 1-2 feet long, subsimple or branched, more or less ligneous. Peduncles 
commonly very short, the rachis, even in fruit, not an inch long. The pedicels are 
slender, 5-6 lines long, by which character this is best known from L. falciformis; 
the curvature of the legume is variable. Our var. 8. with the long pedicels of 
L. brachystachya has legumes approaching those of L. falciformis, © 
29. L. stenoloba (E. Mey. Comm. p, 12,1) ; herbaceous, erect or dif- 
fuse, thinly or sparsely albo-strigose¥ nine 5-10-jugate, linear-oblong 
or sublanceolate, variably pubescenf'; peduncles longer than the leaves, 
shortly racemose at the summit; pedicels shorter than the calyx; ovary 
canescent ; legumes linear, obtuse, mucronate, nearly straight, four 
times as long as broad, thinly strigose, many-seeded., 
Var. Meyeri; leaflets subacute, 5-jugate, albo-strigose on both sides. ZL. steno- 
loba, E. Mey. 
Var. B. obtusata; leafl. obtuse, 7-10-jugate, glabrous above. L. obtusata, E. G Z. 
1636, non Thunb. Q 
Has. a. Nieuweveld, between Waschbank and Rietpoort, Drege. 8., Sandy hills Ne 
near the Zwartkops River, Uit., Z. ¢ Z Cape, Bowie. (Herb. Sd., Bth., Hk., D.) 
More herbaceous than L. brachystachya, with (usually) much longer peduncles, 
and (constantly) much shorter pedicels. It differs from Z. annularis merely in the 
straight or nearly straight legumes. 
30. L. annularis (Burch. Voy. 1, p. 304) ; herbaceous, erect or dif- 
fuse, thinly albo-strigose ; leaflets 6-10-jugate, oblong-obovate or linear- 
oblong, obtuse or emarginate, thinly strigose on one or both sides ; pe- 
duncles longer or shorter than the leaf, shortly racemose near the sum- 
mit; pedicels shorter than the calyx ; legumes linear, compressed, ob- 
tuse, mucronate, arched in a semicircle or more or less completely annular. 
DC. Prod. 2.272. EH. Mey.! Comm. p. 120. H. & Z ! 1638. Also L. ar- 
cuata, H. & Z.! 1639 and L. faleiformis, E. & Z.! 1637. : 
Has. Near Bokpoort, Nieuweveld and Matjesvalei, Drege / Beaufort and Albany, 
Pd a De and Swellendam, £. § Z./ Mrs. F. W. Barber. (Herb. Hk., 
Man ston ed, slightly lignescent at base, 10-15 inches high, the ng plant 
erect, fon mond semity, compile Leaflets agate fn site 28 lines long. 
Peduncles very variable, even on the same specimen. Legumes commonly semi- 
circular, but sometimes completely annular. Scarcely two specimens exactly alike 
of those examined. 
(Doubtful or imperfectly known species.) 
L. pubescens (DC. l.c. 272) ; Colutea pubescens, Thunb.! Cap. p. 603. 
L. obtusata (DC. 1. c.); Colutea obtusata, Th.! 1. c. 604. 
L. mucronata; Galega mucronata, Thunb.! p. 601. 
Thunberg’s specimens of the above in Herb. Upsal are too imperfect for accurate 
determination. 
L. vesicaria (DC) ; Colutea vesicaria, Th.! p.604, seems to he a var. 
of L. tomentosa. ae 
L. procumbens (DC. 273); stem suffruticose, procumbent, — leafl. 
12-14 pairs, ovato-linear, tomentose ; peduncles very long, 3-4 flowered. 
Colutea procumbens, Mill. Dict. No.7, 
L. abbreviata (E. Mey. Comm. p. 118); herbaceous, ¢ 
cent; leaflets 8-jugate, subeonvolute-linear, obtuse ; rac 
the leaves; legumes semi-obovate, glabrous, about four 
Growing with L. linearis (perhaps merely a short-peduneled 
