260 _ -LEGUMINOS& (Harv.) [ Eriosema. 
sessile, 5-6 lines long, spreading (not reflexed). Calyx-tube 1} lines long. Vexillum 
pubescent, about equalling the incurved, subrostrate carina. Legume 7-8 lines long, 
4-5 broad, coriaceous, with long, foxy hairs. Allied to EZ. cordata, but differs in the 
_ form and size of the leaves, the softer and shorter pubescence, longer peduncles and 
not reflexed flowers, &c. It is in all parts smaller. 
4. E. Burkei (Benth.!); dwarf, suberect; the stem, petioles and 
peduncles rufo-sericeous with short, soft hairs ; petioles longest, leaflets 
3, oblongo-lanceolate, acute, rugose, hispidulous above, rufo-sericeous, 
prominently penninerved and netted-veined beneath ; stipules free, silky, 
lanceolate ; peduncles longer than the leaves, densely racemose towards 
the summit, with reflexed, imbricating flowers ; calyx silky-pilose, its 
narrow segments thrice as long as the tube. Zey./ 465. 
Has. Magaliesberg, Burke § Zeyher! (Herb. Hk., Bth., Sd.) 
Stems from a woody base, a foot or more in height, incurved, branching, with soft, 
woolly pubescence. Common petiole about an inch long. Leaflets 2-3 inches long, 
4-4 inch wide, the terminal longest, green above, rufescent beneath, especially on the 
prominent ribs and nerves and at the margin: substance thickish. Peduncles 4-6 
Anches, the raceme 2—3 inches long. Flowers 6-7 lines long. Calyx clothed with long, 
silky, fulvous hairs, the segments nearly equalling the piloso-pubescent vexillum. 
Legume densely pilose, 7-8 lines long, 4-5 wide. 
5. E. parviflorum (E. Mey.! Comm. p. 130); suffruticose, erect or 
ascending, the stem, petioles and long peduncles shaggy with rusty, 
deflexed hairs; leaves petiolate, leaflets 3, elliptic-oblong, obovate, or 
ovate, pubescent above, rather paler and more silky but reticulately 
veined beneath ; stipules lanceolate, free ; peduncles elongate, shortly 
and densely spicato-racemose at the summit; calyx segments shorter 
than the tube; vexillum puberulent; legume shaggy. E. podostachyum, 
Hook. f. Fl. Nig. p. 314, Cytisus glomeratus, Boj.! Hort. Maurit. p. 89. 
Has. In grassy places, in moist valleys between Omsamculo and Omcomas, near 
Omblas, Drege/ Natal, Gueinzius, Sutherland. (Herb. Bth., Hk., Sd.) 
Stems 1~2 feet high, branching, woody at base, more or less hairy. Stipules mem- 
branous, brown, narrow, 2-3 lines long. Lower petioles } inch, upper 1 inch or 
more long. Leaflets 14-2 inches long, 4-1 inch wide, mostly elliptic, varying to 
a oS obovate and oblong ; in some varieties ovate. Peduncles 3-6 inches long, the raceme 
1 long. Flowers subsessile, strongly reflexed, 3-34 lines long. Calyx 
line long, pubescent ; the lobes broad, about equal in length. e Vexillum 
y: Legume 6 lines long, 3-4 wide, very shaggy with foxy hairs. 
ae (Wi alp. Linn. 1 3; P- 536); erect or diffuse, the stem, 
Bes Renin Sens ne uncles / vo- with short, sort, hairs; leaflets 3, 
pit he » oblong or lanceolate-oblong, obtuse or acute, green above, 
rf ‘ite and penninerved beneath ; stipules lanceolate, free; pedun- 
cles mostly longer than the leaves, densely racemose beyond the middle 
with many reflexed, imbricating fl ; : : 
: han the inhe Bens Mowers ; calyx pilose, its segments 
longer than the tube, Hed, ysarum squarrosum, Thunb.! Fl. Cap. p. 595- 
Zeyheri, B. Mey) Coro, Vt 2: P- 333 B. de ZI 1661. Eriosema 
in Lond. Journ. 2, p. 80. m © so sida B. canescens, Meisn. ! 
lum violet. we ae aS 2); ae 
Var. y. Dregei (Benth. !) ; leaflets sill 
E. Dregei, E. Mey.! Comm. p. 129. 
