340 ENUMERATION OF LEGUMINOS&XE. 
distributed by Ecklon and Zeyer according to their stature 
and duration, both very difficult to ascertain from dried spe- 
cimens, E. Meyer has proposed a better arrangement de- 
rived from inflorescence; and Spach, in working up the 
northern species has proposed for almost every species 
separate sections founded on the slightest characters, a pro- 
cess which, if carried through the whole genus, would not 
much facilitate the determination of species. To me it 
appears that the pod affords an important distinctive cha- 
racter, separating the northern species and one Cape one 
(A. lanceolatum) from the remaining southern ones. Adopt- 
ing these two groups as sections, I have followed E. Meyer 
in the subdivision of his Chasmones according to their inflo- 
rescence, observing however that many of the species with 
pedunculate few-flowered racemes have often the earlier and 
lower flowers sessile and solitary, a circumstance which occa- 
sions some difficulty in determining the place of a few 
species of which I have not seen authentic specimens, and 
may have been the cause of repeating them under different 
names. a 
Sect. I. CHAsMoNE. Legumen intus nudum, valvulis con- — 
vexis continuis. Species omnes Austro-Africane. 
§ 1. Spicata. Caules e radice perenni virgati, simplices. 
Flores in spicam terminalem dispositi. 
1. A. crinitum (Walp. Linnea, 13, p. 506).—Chasmoné 
crinata, E. Mey. Comm. p. 71.—This is only known tome — 
from the description given by E. Meyer, who doubts whether _ 
it may not prove generically distinct when the fruit 19 
known. E 
Trado in the Zwarteberg range, Drége. 
probable that the plant sent to Berlin by Drége as the Ingenhoussia roset 
is by some mistake, the Amphithalea densa, whilst my specimen, giso Fe: : 
ceived from Drége, as well as E. Meyer's description, differ in several age 
portant points from the genus Amphithalea, and especially in the si 
peculiarity of Coelidium, the having the leaves convolute and covered with 
close appressed hairs on the upper side. It has also decidedly  monadel- 
phous stamens and the ovarium uniovulate. Ca 
