Rhynchosia. | LEGUMINOS& (Harv.) 253 
Has. Magaliesberg, Burke § Zeyher ! (Herb. Hk., Bth., Sd.) 
The whole plant velvetty with thickly set, short, soft hairs. Stems robust, terete, 
much-branched. Petioles 1-13 inch long. Leaflets 14-2 inches long, 1-14 inch wide, 
prominently nerved and veined beneath, of thick substance, soft to the touch, the 
lateral very oblique, all round-topped and very minutely mucronulate. Peduncles 
6-10 inches long, beyond the middle laxly floriferous. Calyx 24 lines long. Petals 
about 5 lines, vexillum hairy. Legume falcate, softly villous, 1 inch long, 3 lines 
be Known from 2. hirsuta by its soft, velvetty pubescence, thicker leaflets and 
stipules. 
16. R. argentea (Harv.) ; voluble, tomentose ; petioles longish, the 
terminal leaflet approximate ; leaflets broadly ovate, thickish, velvetty- 
pubescent and rugulose above, cano-tomentose beneath ; stipules ovate, 
acute; peduncles longer or short, laxly few-flowered ; bracts caducous ; 
calyx pubescent, its upper segments broadly lanceolate, lowest rather 
longer, subulate ; vexillum pubescent. Glycine argentea, Thunb. Fl. Cap. 
P. 592 
Has. 8. Africa, Thunberg ! Burchell! 5122. (Herb. Th., Burch.) 
Nearest to R. gibba B. picta, but with more densely tomentose and hoary undersides 
to the leaflets, shorter and broader stipules, and a pubescent vexillum. Petioles 4—} 
inch long. Leaflets 10-12 lines long, 6-8 wide, very pale or whitish beneath, the 
terminal about 1 line apart from the pair, which are somewhat oblique, margin re- 
flexed. Stipules 1-1} line long, 1 line wide, bright brown, reflexed, ovate or ovato- 
lanceolate. Legume unknown. 
- 1%. BR. nervosa (Benth. !) ; prostrate or twining, branches and shortish 
petioles hispido-pubescent or villous ; leaflets elliptic-oblong or sub- 
rhomboid, rigid, hispido-pubescent, 3-nerved at base, strongly veiny 
beneath ; stipules small, narrow-lanceolate or subulate ; peduncles long 
(or short), 4—6-flowered ; calyx-lobes lanceolate-acuminate, longer than 
the tube, shorter than the glabrous vexillum ; legume sessile, villous. 
Zey! 500. R. hirsuta 8. rhombifolia, H & Z.! Ley. 515 ? 3 
Van. f. pauciflora; smaller in all parts ; peduncles shorter than the leaf, gene- 
rally 2-flowered. Zey./ 508, 510, 511. os ee : 
Has. Sand rivier and Langspruit, Lajar Ww: , EG Z.! B. Aapjes River, 
Magalies River and Rhinosterkop, Vaal R., Zeyher / erb. Bth., Hk., Sd.) 
This resembles R. hirsuta, but differs in the generally shorter petioles, dense 
pubescence, glabrous vexillum and narrower stipules. Var. 8. has smaller flowers 
and much shorter peduncles, but seems otherwise the same. Of Zeyhe’s No. 515 
I have only seen imperfect specimens. 
18. R. Memnonia (DC. Prod. 2.p. 386); voluble or suberect, in all parts 
tomentoso-canescent or silky ; branches angular ; petioles moderate, leaflets 
obovate or sub-rotund, or bluntly rhomboid, velvetty ; stipules lanceo- 
late, deciduous ; peduncles elongate, laxly racemose, many-flowered ; 
calyx tomentose, its segments longer than the tube, half as long as the 
pubescent vexillum, the uppermost connate, legume falcate, softly 
tomentose or villous. Glycine Memnonia, De Lile, Fl. dig. p. 100.t. 38, f.3. 
Var. A. prostrata; prostrate ; thinly tomentulose. Zey.! 504.—R. minima, B. caly- 
cina, Benth. ! in He saaee 
Has. Magaliesberg, both fo: Burke § Zeyher ! 503. erb. Bth., Hk., Sd., D.) 
Our ew ty oo Sea Ret hg wb ag abo (probabl: wird 
voluble) branches. The whole plant is clothed with a white, soft woolly nap. 
Petioles 1-14 inch long. Leaflets about an inch long and nearly as ile eaialy 
