596 LEGUMINOSÆ INDIGENOUS TO 
forms of A. securifolia, but the flowers are larger and more hairy, 
the vexillum and calycine segments broader, and the ovules in all 
the flowers I have examined, eight in number, instead of four or 
five. 
- 6. A. securifolia (Eckl. Zeyh.! Enum. p. 190), ramulis tomen- 
tosis, foliis obovatis orbiculatis suboblongisve crassis concavis late- 
ralibus obliquis utrinque acutis glabris ciliatisve, floribus capitalis, 
calycis glabri v. villosuli laciniis lanceolato-subulatis acutis tubum 
vix æquantibus, petalis puberulis, vexillo late ovato carinam bre- 
viter superante, ovario 4— (rarius. 5—) ovulato villoso, legumine 
oblique ovato.—8. spathulata, foliis latioribus, calycibus majori- 
bus villosulis.—A. spathulata, Eckl. Zeyh. ! Enum. p. 198.—Folia 
4—6 lin. longa, in forma normal 2-3 lin. lata, in var. 8. sæpe 
4 lin. lata, basi in petiolum brevem angustata.  Vexilli stipes 
brevissisimus. 
Rocky hills on the Zondereinde river, Swellendam district, 
Ecklon and Zeyher! The var. 8. on the Babylonstoorens hill, 
Ecklon and Zeyher. ! Mundt. 
T. A. conferta, sp. n., ramis tomentosis, foliis cuneato- v. sub- 
spathulato-oblongis obtusis v. mucronato-acutis demum glabris 
nitidulis, floribus capitatis, bracteis setaceis, calycis vix villosuli 
laciniis lanceolato-subulatis acutis tubo longioribus, petalis pube- 
rulis, vexillo lato-ovato carinam breviter superante, ovario 4-ovu- 
lato villoso, legumine oblique ovato acuminato.—Forte A. recurvi- 
folie varietas, sed differt imprimis foliis multo angustioribus minus 
coriaceis plerisque semipollicaribus vix 2 lin. latis. Calycis laciniæ 
multo longiores. 
On the Zwarteberg, near Caledon, amongst stones, Mundt. ! 
also in Bowies collection, and Burchell’s Cat. Geogr. 
n. 6956 ! 
A. truncata, of Ecklon and Zeyh.! Enum. p. 197, from near 
Tulbagh, n. 425! of Zeyher’s separate collection from Riet Kuil, 
in Swellendam, and n. 1220 ! of Drége’s collection from Nieuwe- 
kloof, are all Aspalathi deformed by the prick of some insect. 
Drage: (Linnza v. 19) refers them to the two varieties of A. secu- 
rifolia, to me they appear, at least the two latter, to belong rather 
