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limits are best indicated by the remarkable foliage peculiar to it, 
and it has become necessary to adopt Ecklon and Zeyher’s Buch- 
enradera for several species with petiolate leaves referred by others 
to Aspalathus. They have, moreover, some slight differences in 
the form of the calyx which is fuller, with a tendency on the part 
of the lateral teeth to approximate in pairs, as in Lotononis, and 
the claws of the petals are longer. The ovary is sessile with eight 
or ten ovules closely crowded together, the pod nearly that of the 
shortest podded Aspalathi, having usually but one perfect seed. 
Most of the species have stipules which do not exist in any 
Aspalathus. The genus, like Aspalathus, is confined to South 
Africa. 
* Stipulis, saltem superioribus, foliaceis petiolo longioribus, 
Jloribus spicato-capitatis albidis v. flavicantibus. 
1. B. holosericea, adpresse sericea, foliolis cuneatis apiculatis, 
florum capitulis densis, bracteis ovatis oblongisve calyce villosis- 
simo longioribus, petalis omnibus villosis subæqualibus, legumine 
villosissimo.— Aspalathus holosericea, E. Mey. ! Comm. p. 37.— 
Habitus fere Avgyrolobii. Pubes sericea rufescens. Foliola 3—4 
lin. longa; petiolus 1-2 lin. Stipule petiolo dimidio v. sub- 
duplo longiores.  Bracteæ 2 lin. longs, sepe 2 lin. late, acute, 
dense rufo-sericeæ. 
- Cafferland near Omgaziana and Morley, Drege ! 
2. B. Meyeri (Presl. Bot. Bem. p. 47) laxe sericea, foliolis 
cuneatis brevissime acuminatis, florum capitulis densis, bracteis 
anguste oblongis calyce villosissimo brevioribus, petalis omnibus 
villosis, vexillo alis caririaque dimidio longiore, legumine villosis- 
simo.— Aspalathus cuneata et retusa, È. Mey.! Comm. p. 37.— 
Folia B. Zo/osericeæ v. sepius minora. Pubes laxior, albens v. 
rufescens. Bracteæ acute, calyce multo breviores, v. rarius acumi- 
nate eum fere æquantes. Calyx 2-21 lin. longus. Vexillum calyce 
duplo longius. 
Cafferland, between the Buffel and Key rivers, and near Komga, 
Drege! 
3. B. alpina (Eckl. et Zeyh. Enum. p. 195). Unknown to 
me. It is referred by Walpers to the B. Meyeri, but the charac- 
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