Rhynchosia. } LEGUMINOS (Harv.) 257 
narrow, the upper scarcely connate to the middle. Ale much shorter than the 
carina, Legume oo lines long, 3 lines wide, tapering at base into a 1-2 line sit) 
stipe. = : 
ee 4 ORTHODANUM. (Sp. 27-29.) 
27. R. Orthodanum (Benth. !); erect, suffruticose, silky-villous or gla- 
brescent ; branches virgate ; leaves subsessile or very shortly petiolate ; 
leaflets elliptic-oblong or lanceolate-oblong, obtuse, mucronate, netted- 
veined ; stipules lanceolate, withering ; peduncles shorter than the 
leaves, closely few-flowered ; calyx lobes lanceolate-acuminate, much 
longer than the tube, shorter than the nearly glabrous vexillum ; legume 
silky-pilose. Orthodanum latifolium, O. sordidum, and O. argenteum, fz. 
Mey.! Comm. Drege, p. 131-2. LEriosema sericeum, EL. §& Z.! No. Bui 
Burch. Cat. 4674 ? 
Var. 8. Muhlenbeckii; stems dwarf; leaves and flowers smaller ; calyx sarmadis 
rather shorter in proportion to the tube ; legume less pilose. Orthodanum Muhlen- 
beckit and O. glabratum, Meisn. in Hook. Lond. Journ. 2, p. 9-92. 
_ Has. Grassy mountain sides of the Winterberg, above Philipstown, Kat River, 
E. & Z.! Between the Basche and Omtata, and on to Port Natal, Drege! Krauss.! 
374. 6B. Near Kromme R., Uitenhage and in Outenequa, Krauss., Bowie! (Herb. 
Bth., Hk., D., Sd.) 
Very variable in pubescence and in the size and breadth of the leaflets. Stems 
numerous, 1—2 feet high, subsimple, straight or incurved. Leaflets 1-2 inches long, 
4-1 inch wide, sometimes silvery, especially on young shoots ; mostly softly pubes- 
cent, but green ; occasionally thinly pubescent. Lower petioles sometimes } inch 
long, the upper 1-2 lines long, shorter than the spreading, narrow stipules. Lower 
leaves often unifoliate. Peduncles 2-3-flowered. Calyx-tube 1 line, segments 2-3 
lines long. Legume 6-8 lines se ee. lines" sie silky, sometimes — 
glabrescent. 
28. R. nitens (Benth. !) ; et auileilioce: every where willy ail . 
_ with minute, soft tomentum; leaves on shortish petic re leaflets broadly 
ovate or cordate-ovate, flat, penni-nerved beneath ; stipules obs 
peduncles ‘2--3-flowered, shorter than the leaf 
than the wide seta fe eo. an = the pu 
(Herb. Bth., Hk., Sa, D. ‘< 
feet high, with flexuous, somewhat 
tty with shining, white tomentum. 
es 3- lines long, the lower ones uncial. 
Sa ate, often cordate, but varying to 
scarcely oblique, all subacute, scarcely mucronu- 
stly /3-flowered at the summit ; pedicels shorter — 
canescent, the tube very obtuse at base, 1-14 
lines long segments tri gular ninate. Vexillum 8 lines long, downy ; alz 
ate ‘ than the nonves subrostrats carina. Style conspicuously thickeped 
R. (Benth. !) 5 Sirabiy, erect, viscidly-hairy and 
dotted ; branches virgate ; leaves on very short petioles ; leaflets : 
oblong, bullate, with recurved margins; stipules leaf-like, taper-p 
peduncles scarcely longer than the leaves, 1~2-flowered ; cal, 
scarcely longer than the tube, shorter than the glabrous vex 
gume sparsely pilose. Hidrosia bullata, LE, Mey. ! Comm. Dre 9. 
Has. Wupperthal, in stony mountain pais Dati parece Be, joy DD) 
VoL. Ti. 
