62 FLORA OF SOUTH AFRICA. 
as identical with P. hirsuta Willd. by Dr. Walpers (Linnea — : 
13, p. 457,) and to which Mr. Bentham refers P. kamata — 1 
(Ann. Wien. Mus. 2, p. 68) is also quite distinct from our 
plant in having much longer and often two-flowered pedun- — | 
cles, and much smaller flowers and leaves. Among Drége's 
plants we have seen no species with which our plant agrees. 
From P. Burchellii, DC.1. c. n. 1, which it seems to approach 
closely, especially by its very short peduncles, it differs in 
the form of the leaves, which are ovate or oval, (6-8 lines long; 
by 4-5 lin. in breadth) with a short recurved point, tomen- 
toso-villose, and not reticulated on the inferior surface, ad- 
presso-villose on the upper side which at last becomes almost 
glabrous. Pedicels one line long; flowers as large as in P. — 
calyptrata; calyx villous, or Nee hirsute, with light brown — | 
silky hairs, intruso-truncate at the base, five-cleft to below the 
middle; lobes lanceolate acute, nearly as long as the carina and 7 
ale, the two upper less deeply divided. Corolla deep purple, — 
the vexillum on the outside slightly pubescent towards the 
base. The pubescence of the young leaves is silky and golden E 
or fulvous like that of the calyx; on the old foliage it is grey — 
and scarcely shining. nd 
. 10. P. orbicularis, E. Meyer, comment. p. 8.—Ad latera 
montium Baviaanskloof (IV. B. b.) Dec. 1838. Hb. Krauss, 
propr. Folia valde coriacea, juniora utrinque sericeo-villosa. 
Pedunculi et calyx pube breviore subtomentosi. Legumina 
turgida, pollicaria, pilis patentibus villosissima. This species — 
is very near the preceding, and P. hirsuta Willd., but differs — 
in having longer pedicels. a 
11. P. calypirata, Willd. E. Mey.! comm. p. 10. Secus. 
 rivulos ad latus occidentale montis Tafelberg, alt. 1000" ad 
D. b) Jul. 1338, Krauss, n. 872. 
12. Rafnia cuneifolia, Thunb. DC. prodr. 2. p. 118, n. 3, 
E. Mey. ! comm. p. 12.—In solo lapidoso prope Klein 
Rivier (IV. B. b.) Dec. 1838. Krauss, n. 932. : 
13. R. triflora Thunb. DC. l. c. n. 4. E. Mey.! 1. c.—Inter ^ 
frutices prope Constantin (HI. E. b.) Sept. 1838. Krauss, : 
n. 931. z 
