FLORA OF SOUTH AFRICA. 69 
E. Mey. comm. p. 32.—Ad radices montium prope Gnaden- 
thal (TV. A.) Dec. 1838. Krauss, n. 921.—Inter frutices 
in arenosis planitiei Capensis, Ecklon. Un. itin. No. 676 
(which Ecklon quite wrongly refers to Lebeckia contaminata, 
Enum. p. 192.) 
96. Aspalathus Kraussiana, nob. ; foliis 3-foliolatis, petiolo 
ad tuberculum reducto, foliolis subfalcato-lanceolatis, acutis, 
planis, coriaceis, nervosis, glabris, summis conformibus dorso 
margineque pilosis ; capitulis terminalibus, sessilibus, involu- 
 €ro proprio nullo; calycis villosi dentibus subzequalibus, 
linearibus, acutis, tubo sublongioribus, dimidiam corollam 
superantibus ; vexillo, alarum apice carinaque extus pubes- 
centibus. 
In solo lapidoso-arenoso prope Klein Rivier, distr. Zwel- 
lendam (IV. B. b.), Dec. 1838. Krauss, n. 821. 
This species, at first sight, resembles very much A. involu- 
crata, E. Meyer, comm. p. 38, which, however, differs in its 
broad bracts forming an involucrum around the flower-head. 
A. venosa, E. Mey. l. c. p. 39, is also nearly related, but has 
quite different leaves. A. rugosa, Thunb. Fl. Cap. p. 574, 
seems to differ by “foliis vix unguicularibus ellipticis, flori- 
bus terminalibus umbellatis subternis albicantibus,” but it may 
be inaccurately described, and still, perhaps, belong to either 
ofthe species just mentioned. Our plant has rather strong, 
black and pubescent branches, dividing at the top into a few 
short umbellate twigs of a pale brownish colour. The leaves 
might almost be called simple and fascicled, from the nearly 
total absence of a petiole, which, indeed, is reduced to a mere 
tubercle (pulvinus), but they are truly and constantly 3-folio- 
late ; leaflets 6-7 lines long, 13-2 1. broad, obliquely lanceolate 
or cultriform (one margin being straight, or faleate), of equal 
length, marked with one conspicuous middle nerve and two 
lateral often indistinct and nearly marginal nerves. The 
uppermost (likewise 3-foliate) leaves which immediately sur- 
round the capitulum, differ in nothing from those just de- 
cribed, except in being not quite so cartilaginous, in their - 
