224 - LEGUMINOS (Harv.) [Sylitra. 
L. lanata ; suffruticose ? densely clothed in all parts with long, soft 
white hairs ; leafl. 6-8-jugate, elliptic-oblong (5-6 lines long, 2-24 wide,) 
obtuse ; stipules lanceolato-subulate ; peduncles equalling the leaves, 
shortly racemose at the summit; pedicels equalling the calyx ; le- 
gume.... ¢ L. tomentosa, E. § Z.! 1656, excl. Syn. 
Has; Gauritz River, Swellendam. £. ¢ Z. (Herb. Sond.) : 
Of this there exists a mere fragment in Herb. Ecklon. It is much more densely 
villous and woolly than any recorded species, 
L. suleata (E. Mey. Comm. p- 116); suffruticose, erect, glabrous ; 
stem furrowed, flexuous or kneebent; leaflets multi-jugate, linear-ob- 
long, obtuse, emarginate; raceme twice as long as the leaf; the pedun- 
cle thick, furrowed, erect; legumes compressed, ovate-oblong, very 
large, 1-2 seeded? £. Mey. 
Has. Rocky places near Leeuwenkrall, in Dutoitskloof, Drege. 
Unknown to me. 
XXXVIL SYLITRA, E. Mey. 
Calyx sub-bilabiate, 5-fid. Carina erect, round-pointed, shorter than 
the stbequal vexillum and adnate ale. Stamens monadelphous. Style 
glabrous, the stigma capitellate. Legume scarious, indehiscent, com- 
pressed, much broader than the seeds. Z. Mey. Comm. Drege, p. 114. 
A virgate perennial. Leaves unifoliolate. Stipules subulate, free. Flowers axillary, 
mostly in pairs, subsessile, very small. The name ovdrrpa, was applied by Diosco- 
rides to some Glycyrhiza, and by Medicus formerly given to the genus now called 
Lessertia. It is now revived in favour of the present plant, which with the legume 
of a Lessertia has a very distinct general habit. 
8. biflora (E. Mey.! Comm. Drege, p. 114) ; Harv. Thes, t. 78. 
Has. Bitterwater, near the Gamke River, 2300f., Drege. (Herb. Benth., Sond.) 
Stems 12-16 inches high, terete, slender, thinly canescent, slightly branched ; 
branches virgate, flexuous, Leaves nearly an inch apart ; petiole 1-2 lines long, 
2 lines wide, acute at each-end, glabrous above, minutely canescent beneath, ob- 
liquely striate. Stipules setaceo-subulate, equalling the petiole. Flowers in axillary 
pairs, on pedicels not a line long. Calyx 14 line long, silky, with sharp teeth. Corolla 
not twice as long as the calyx. Legume oblong, 13 inch long, half inch wide, strongly 
XXXVIIL ASTRAGALUS, I. 
Calyx tubular or campanulate, 5—toothed. Vewxillum equalling or ex- 
ceeding the ala ; carina obtuse. Stamens diadelphous. Ovary many- 
ovuled. Legume (variable in form incompletely or completely divided 
longitudinally into two cells, by the introflexion of the carina] (dorsal) 
‘suture. DC. Prod. 2,'p. 281. Endl. Gen, 6573. 
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: ines plas species known, name was given by the Greeks to some 
1. A. Burkeanus (Benth. ! in Herb.) ; erect, quite glabrous, glauces- 
cent ; stipules very large, leafy, Semicordate-oblong, acute, free ; leaflets 
