66 FLORA OF SOUTH AFRICA. 
Inter rupes ad latus occidentale montis Duyvelsberg 
(III. A. e.) Jun. 1838. Krauss, n. 823. 1 
This is very near A. ericefolia, especially as to the inflores- — | 
cence, but it is certainly and essentially distinct in its much 
less crowded, narrower (almost acerose) leaves and almost 
twice as large flowers, which at the base of the spike form — 
fascicles or very short corymbs of 6-8 blossoms borne on @ | 
peduncle of 1-2 lines in length, and in the higher axils are 
aggregated by 2 or 3 only and almost sessile. The calyx is 
2-21 lines long (only 3 shorter than the corolla) and covered . 
with a canescent slightly silky pubescence; its 3 inferior - 
lobes are narrow and acute, 1 line long. The colour and - 
structure of the flowers are quite as in A. ericefolia, but the - 
pubescence of the branches longer, more pilose and silky, 
not minute and tomentose as in that species. Our plant — 
might be taken for A. incurvifolia, Eckl. et Zeyh.; but this | 
having been found by Dr. Walpers, who has seen authentic — 
specimens, to be merely De Candolle's var. 8. of A. ericefolia, — 
with whieh our plant never can be united or confounded, 
we must still consider it as distinct. Nor can we think it 
identical with A. virgata, Eckl. et Zeyh. l. c. p. 169 (Indigo 
fera axillaris, E. Mey. in Linnea 7, p. 166, fide Ecklon), - 
which seems to have quite the same foliage, but is said by - 
Ecklon to have the flowers terminal, geminate or in fascicles - 
of 3 to 5 (a character, perhaps, inaccurately expressed), and — 
filiform short branches ; whereas E. Meyer says, of his Indigot ^ 
Jera axillaris, * floribus axillaribus solitariis." 
29. Hallia angustifolia, DC. prodr. 2, p. 123, E. Mey- 
comm. p. 82.—In arenosis planitiei Capensis (III. E. b.) 
Nov. 1838. Krauss, n. 848.—Dr. Walpers (Linnea 13, 
p- 511) unites this to H. virgata, Thunb., though, apparently; - 
without having seen authentic specimens of the latter, which, | 
according to the description (Fl. Cap. p. 593) seems to be - 
really distinet in its shorter peduncles and in its stipules 
being only of the length of the petiole. Our plant, at least - 
differs in these points from H. virgata, whereas it exactly 
coincides with H. angustifolia, DC. 
