230 LEGUMINOSE (Harv.) ' [Alysicurpus. 
Has. a 3 tall grass near Omgaziana, Drege! Natal, Plant, Gueinzius, ge. 
Herb. Hk. D. : 
: Stem 3 feet high, aia robust, furrowed, densely tomentose, pale. Petioles un- 
cial, the terminal leafi. remote. ‘Leaflets 3-4 inches long, 14-2 inches wide, thick 
and soft. Panicle 1 foot long, of many slender racemes, each 4-6 inches long ; pedi- 
cels 2-3 lines long, erect. Flowers 2} lines long, yellow or reddish ? 
XLV. ALYSICARPUS, Neck. 
Calyx persistent, glumaceous, deeply 4-parted, the upper segment 
emarginate or bifid. Corolla papilionaceous, small, scarcely longer than 
the calyx. Stamens diadelphous, 9g and 1. Legume terete or subcom- 
pressed, several-jointed, the joints equal-sided, separating. Endl. Gen. 
6626, DC. Prod. 2, p. 353. 
Small, weedlike herbs or suffrutices, natives of tropical and subtropical Asia and 
Africa, Leaves unifoliolate, bistipulate ; stipules and bracts scarious. Flowers 
racemose, pedicellate, in pairs, purple, inconspicuous. Name from Avois, a separa- 
tion or solution, and xapmos, fruit ; because the legumes break up. 
ANALYSIS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN SPECIES. 
Joints of the glabrous legume deeply furrowed and ribbed (1) Wallichii. 
Joints of the downy legume neither wed norribbed,even (2) Zeyheri. 
1. A. Wallichii (W. & Arn. Prod. 1. p. 234); ascending, glabrous; 
leaves subcordate-oblong, the upper ones linear-oblong or ovato-lanceo- 
late ; racemes terminal, cylindrical, imbricating ; bracts broadly ovate, 
shorter than the flower, deciduous ; legumes scarcely longer than the 
calyx, 4—5-jointed, tipped with the straight base of the style, subcom- 
pressed, glabrous, the articulations deeply furrowed and ribbed trans- 
wrsely, broader than long. A. glaber, E, Mey.! Comm. p. 125. Zey.! 463. 
cx pte. ‘ 
Has, Amo: between Omsamwubo and Omsam . Crocodile 
and Aapjes Bite Ducks § Zeyher! (Herb. Hk., Sd., D.) “are 
Pale yellowish green, rigid, 12-18 inches high. Leaves very variable in shape, 
sometimes 1 inch long, } inch wide, and very blunt ; sometimes 2 inches long, 4 
inch wide, and acute : the lower leaves are always the broadest and bluntest. 
cemes 3-4 inches long, densely many-flowered. 
2. A. Zeyheri (Harv.); ascending, glabrous ; leaves elliptic-oblong, 
the upper ones linear-oblong, all strongly netted-veined; racemes ter- 
minal, lax, interrupted ; bracts broadly ovate, nearly equalling the 
flower, deciduous ; legumes longer than the calyx, 3-4-jointed, tipped 
with the straight base of the style, subcompressed, downy, the articula- 
tions beadlike, smooth, (not wrinkled) or faintly subreticulate. Zey./ 463, 
ex pte. 
Hap. Aapjes River, Burke ¢ Zeyher! (Herb. Hk., Sd.) 
The leaves are more rigid and much more strongly veiny than in A. Wallichii; 
the racemes are longer and laxer ; and the legume is very different. 
XLVI. REQUIENIA, DC. 
Calye campanulate, §-fid, the segments acute, the lowest longest. 
Vecillum obovate; carina obtuse, dipetalous. Stamens monadelphous, 
the tube cleft above. Ovary sessile, uniovulate ; style short, incurved. 
