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late campanulati puberuli laciniis subulato-pungentibus tubo 
paullo longioribus, vexillo puberulo carinam glabram arcuato- 
rostratam æquante, ovario biovulato, legumine oblique et late 
lanceolato glabro v. vix puberulo.—A. speciosa, Steud. Flora, 
1830, p. 544.— Habitus foliorum et flores fere Lateralium $ 1, 
sed inflorescentia et legumen potius Zerminalium. Rami robusti 
floribundi, ramulis brevibus. Folia juniperina, in fasciculo valde 
inzqualia, majora semipolliearia. Flores 4-5 lin. longi. Legu- 
men semipollicare, durum, sutura seminifera incrassata. 
Cape and Stellenbosch districts, in most collections. 
146. A. acicularis (E. Mey.! Comm. p. 46) spinescens, foliis 
fasciculatis patentibus tenuiter lineari-trigonis rigidulis mucronato- . 
pungentibus glabris, floribus 1—3-nis breviter pedicellatis, calycis 
pubescentis laciniis aristato-subulatis tubo vix longioribus, vexillo 
pubescente, carina glabriuscula, legumine oblique lanceolato 
-glabro.—Inter A. astroitem et A. acuminatam fere media. Habitus 
hujus, sed folia multo longiora ut in A. astroiti juniperina et 
inæqualia, sæpe 8-4 lin. longa. Flores et fructus iis A. aséroitis 
multo minores. 
Cape district, sandy hills at Ebenezer, and thence to the Kamies- 
bergen, Drège! Harvey! This is probably the plant which E. 
Meyer alludes to (without describing) in the Linnea, v. 7. p. 
161, under the name of A. racemosa. 
147. A. secunda (E. Mey.! Comm. p. 47) spinescens, foliis 
fasciculatis lineari-teretibus mucronulatis glabris, floribus racemu- 
losis, calycis hirtelli dentibus aristato-mucronatis tubo turbinato 
subbrevioribus, vexillo carinaque arcuato-rostrata sericeis alas 
superantibus, ovario biovulato, legumine oblique lanceolato seri- 
ceo-pubescente.—A. pungens, Eckl. Zeyh. ! Enum. p. 220 non 
Thunb.—Folia fere A. incomte, v. A. spinosæ, tenuiora tamen 
et inflorescentia diversa. Frutex ramosissimus, ramulis brevibus. 
Folia majora 2-4 lin. longa. Racemi 3-5-flori. Flores 4 lin. longi. 
Clanwilliam district near Brackfontein, Æcklon, Zeyher! Rie- 
bekskasteel, Drôge / also in Bowie’s/ collection, with shorter 
leaves, and apparently the same from Caledon, Alexander! This 
may possibly be the true A. corrudafolia of Bergius. 
