602 ' LEGUMINOSÆ INDIGENOUS TO 
argenteo-sericeis, capitulis densis ovatis, calycis molliter villost 
dentibus tubo multo brevioribus, petalis villosissimis subæqui- 
longis, legumine ovato longe rostrato villoso.—Rami validi, rigidi, 
dense foliati. Folia 1-3 lin. longa, densius sericea’ quam in 
affinibus, tomento nunquam evanido. Capitula pollicem diametro. 
Flores 5-6 lin. longi, villosissimi. 
Cederbergen, from various collections, near Ezelsbank and 
Giftberg, Drege! "There is little doubt that this is Bergius’s 
plant to which E. Meyer has referred it. In Linnæus’s herbarium, 
it is one of the five species named A. argentea, and may be the 
A. argentea of Thunberg, though certainly not the one described 
under that name by Linnæus. The A. sericea of Linneus’s 
herbarium appears to be a Lebeckia, that of Ecklon and Zeyher is 
referred by Walpers to A. jacobea. Our plant is often confounded 
with A. emula, which often resembles it in foliage and habit, but 
has the flowers usually solitary or at most three together instead 
of being very numerously collected into compact heads. 
25. A. lotoides (Thunb. ? Fl. Cap. p. 575) foliis ternis fascicu- 
latisve: parvis oblongis lanceolatisve acutis sericeo-puberulis 
glabratisve, capitulis densis ovato-globosis, bracteis inferioribus 
stipitatis ovato-lanceolatis summis subulatis, calycis villosi denti- 
bus lanceolato-subulatis tubo æquilongis, vexillo alisque carina 
dimidio longioribus. Rami erecti, elongati, rigidi, sed tenuiores 
quam in A. virgata et A. sericea. Folia 1-2 v. rarius 3 lin. 
longa, minora incano-sericea, majora sepe glabrata. Capitula 
multiflora usque ad pollicem diametro. Flores 5—6 lin. longi. 
Has. Cederbergen, near Ezelsbank, Drege! also in .Bowie's 
collection with rather narrower bracts. I have followed E. Meyer 
in considering this as Thunberg’s A. Zofoides, although his 
description is not decisive; and the two specimens so named in- 
Linnæus’s herbarium are very different, the one being A. jacobea, 
the other A. cephalotes. Our plant is very near A. virgata, with 
flowers as large as in A. sericea. 
26. A. leucocephala (E. Mey.! Comm. p. 41) foliis subternis 
fasciculatisve parvis oblongis acutiusculis. subsericeo-villosis, capi- 
tulis densis globosis, bracteis stipitatis orbiculatis obovatis 
