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gentea, Eckl. Zeyh! Enum. p. 203 non aliorum.— Rami elongati, 
nunc simplices, nunc ramulis brevibus rigidis instructi. Folia 
vulgo dense fasciculata, 1-2 lin. longa, pube sericea alba nitentia. 
Flores 6 lin. longi, pilis albidis longis mollissimis dense vestiti. 
Species interdum A. sericeæ approximatur, sed flores constanter 
intra fasciculos solitarii v. 2-3-ni, nec ad apices ramorum evolu- 
torum dense capitati. 
Caledon and Swellendam districts, Heklon and Zeyher ! 
Mundt! Zeyher, n. 2342! and others ; Hex river, Drege ; Uiten- 
hage on the Boschemann’s river, Zeyher, n. 2343! and (if it be 
the same species) Honigvallei, in the Cederbergen, Drège. 
Series III. Synrgrazæ. Folia fasciculata, teretia trigona v. 
carinata nec plano-dilatata. Flores subsessiles, nunc in capitula 
terminalia conferti, nune intra fasciculos foliorum laterales soli- 
tari. Ungues carinæ alarumque ea breviorum tubo stamineo 
adnati, Legumen oblique ovatum, calyce brevius v. paullo 
longius. Calycis laciniæ sæpe (nec tamen in omnibus) foliaceo- 
dilatatæ, nervos tres distincte ostendunt. Vexillum in omnibus 
extus pubescens v. villosum. Carina intus glabra. Alæ glabræ, 
carina vulgo multo breviores. Ovarium biovulatum, glabrum v. 
villosum. 
This is a very distinct and well characterized group, but being 
the only one in the genus that has any positive characters, would 
divide the whole far too unnaturally were it adopted as a distinct 
section. 
$ 1. Flores capitati. 
39. A. aculeata (Thunb. Fl. Cap. p. 584), foliis dense fascicu- 
latis aculea iis subæquali suffultis lineari-carinatis pilosis, summis 
floralibusque apice hamato-mucronatis, floribus capitatis, calycis 
villosi laciniis apice hamatis tubo subæquilongis, vexillo villoso, 
carina glabra.— Frutex ramosissimus, insignis in eo quod callus 
sub foliorum fasciculo in aculeam excrescit 2-3 lin. longam. 
Folia inferiora sæpe obtusa et glabrata circa 2 lin. longa, supe- 
riora v. interdum fere omnia 2-3 lin. longa, apice hamato-recurva 
€t cum ramulis pilis longiusculis patentibus hirta, rarius (uti in 
