Eriosema.] LEGUMINOS& (Harv.) 961 
Var. 3, latifolium (Benth. !); stem and inflorescence with longer red hairs, leaflets 
much larger (23 inches long, 14 wide), pilose hairy above, densely cano-tomentose 
beneath ; vexi violet : 
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Aretha y field peyond Chios g! near Galgebosch and elsewhere, Thwn- 
berg! Zwartkops and Vanstaadens R., and Adow, Ait., Z. f Z./ Zuureriver and 
Klipplaat R., Drege / Slaay Kraal, Burke §: Zeyher / B. Winterberg, E.¢ Z./ Bowie! 
Arebs./ y. Omsamcubo, Drege/ Port Natal, Gueinzius/ (Herb. Th., Hk., Bth., 
Sd. D. 
2» : 
Somewhat woody at base ; stems erect or ascending, branched from the root, 6-14 
inches long, clothed with short, reversed, rusty-coloured or dirty-white soft hairs. 
Stipules membranous, striate, 4-6 lines long. Petioles rarely } inch long. Leaflets 
1-14 inch long, #—1 inch wide, in 8. much larger, the lower often obovate, the rest 
mostly oblong or elliptical ; those near the ends of the branches narrower and longer 
in proportion and passing into lanceolate. Peduncles 2-6 inches long, the raceme 
about uncial, very dense ; the flowers strongly reflexed, 4-5 lines long. Calyx cano- 
villose, the segments lanceolate, half as long as the pubescent vexillum. Legume 6 
lines long, 4-5 lines wide, shaggy with long red hairs. I follow Bentham in referring 
y. and 8. to this place. 
7. E. salignum (E. Mey.! Comm. Drege, p. 129) ; suberect, tall, the 
stem, petioles, and peduncles cano-sericcous, with short, soft hairs ; leaf- 
lets 3, oblong or linear-lanceolate, elongate, acute, green above, silky- 
white and penninerved beneath ; stipules oblongo-lanceolate, free ; ped- 
uncles longer or shorter than the leaves, racemose beyond the middle, 
with many reflexed, imbricating flowers ; calyx pilose, its segments 
longer than the tube. Burch. 3877. 
Var. 8. concolor; pubescence scanty ; leaflets green on both sides, pilose above, 
thinly silky beneath, obtuse or subobtuse, mucronulate ; flowers lax. 
Has. Magaliesberg, Burke & Zeyher! Natal, Sanderson, Krauss, T. Williamson» 
gc. (Herb. Bth., Hk., Sd., D.) : 3s Mee ee 
Stems several, 6-18 inches high, subsimple. Stipules 4-} inch long, striate. 
Petioles 4-3 inch long. Leaflets 14-3 inches long. $— inch wide, subglabrous above, 
mostly white beneath ; in 8. green and partly naked. Peduncles 3-6 inches long, 
the raceme 1-2 inches long. Flowers closely reflexed, 5 lines long. Calyx-segments 
a little shorter than the hairy vexillum. Very near Z. sguarrosum, but the leaves 
are longer and narrower, and the flowers rather larger. 8. from Natal (Herb. Hk.) 
may belong to a different species» 
8, E. Kraussianum (Meisn.! in Hook. Lond. Journ. 2, p. 91); dwarf, 
erect, subsilky, cano-pubescent; petiole very short, leaflets 3, Janceolate- 
oblong, tapering at base, sparsely pilose above, thinly silky beneath ; 
stipules lanceolate, free ; peduncles elongate, densely racemose above 
the middle, many-flowered ; calyx fulvo-hirsute, its lobes shorter than 
the tube ; vexillum hairy. : 
. places at foot of the Tafelberg, Port Natal, Krauss! 474, ex pte. 
(Herb. Hk., Bth.) ~ 
- Root woody. Stems several, 6-8 inches high, incurved, angular, loosely cano- 
a ae a lines long. — + Sosa long, 3-4 lines wide, thinly 
-and mo beneath, minutely netted and obliquely nerved, the margin slightly 
silky a minutely quely argin slightly _ 
:. 
spicate, 1} inch long, rich brown. Flowers closely set, 3-4 
lines long. Stipules longer than the petioles, scarious, brown. Much smaller than 
E. cajanoides, with denser and shorter racemes, larger stipules, and a hairy vexil- a 
lum, &c. 
9. E. cajanoides (Benth.) ; stem erect, tall, rib-striate, fulvo-canes- — 
cent, tomentose ; petiole very short; leaflets 3, oblong, obtus a 
1; stipules minute, 
at base, glabrescent above, cano-sericeous beneath ; 
