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74 FLORA OF SOUTH AFRICA. 
1-flowered pedicels. The legumen becomes, at last, almost | 
glabrous, 14 inch long, 1 line broad. The tubercles of the 
root are of the size of a small pea, ovoid, acute at both extre- 
mities, brown, sessile, solitary, or perhaps fasciculate. 
65. Chasmone longifolia, mob.—Suffruticosa, divaricato- 
ramosa; stipulis setaceis petiolo brevi paulo longioribus 
foliolis elongato-linearibus, acutis, subzequalibus, utrinqu 
canescenti-pilosis; racemis axillaribus et terminalibus elon- 
gatis, nudis, laxis; floribus subsecundis; calycis pilosi labio 
superiore indiviso v. demum 2-dentato, inferiore 3-denta 
dentibus brevibus ; legumine lineari, fusco-villoso. i 
In summitate montium Tafelberge, Port Natal (V. e.) alt. 
1000’ Dec. 1839. Krauss, n. 214. | 
This seems to be nearly akin to Argyrolobium angustifolium 
Ecklon et Zeyh, l. c. p. 188, which, however, differs in t! 
form of the stipules, folioles and in the inflorescence. A. pa 
ciflorum, Ecklon et Zeyh. l. c. p. 186, which comes nearer 
it, as to the leaves and stipules, is quite distinct in * pedu 
culis sub 2-floris folio brevioribus." The plant seems 
reach the height of several feet, and shoots out slender 
branches from almost every axilla; they are cylindrical, 
slightly striated, and covered with the same short adpressed 
greyish hairs as the leaves, but become almost glabrous 
their inferior part. Stipules 3 lines long, erect. Petiole scarcely 
exceeding 2 lines, leaflets 2-23 inches long, 2-24 lines broad, 
generally folded along the midrib. Racemeés 3-8 inches long 
the inferior (axillary) ones gradually longer, semipatent, with- 
out leaves or bracts, many-flowered; pedicels rather remot® _ 
all turned to the same side, 2-3 lines long, with two short 
linear bracteoles about the middle. Flowers 5 lines long 
Calyx a little shorter than the corolla, deeply bilabiate, lowe 
lip shortly and equally 3-toothed, upper lip at first undivided, 
ovate, acute, but visibly composed of two cohering lobes 
which afterwards separate at the top into two short teeth, 
that the same flower, when young, will belong to Walp: 
genus Gamochilum, and when fully developed, to his Argy 
lobium! Petals black from exsiccation. Vexillum com 
