FLORA OF SOUTH AFRICA. 75 
cate, obeordato-oblong, pubescent on the back, with a short 
broad unguis and a minute transverse fold at the base of the 
lamina; ale little shorter than the vexillum and scarcely 
longer than the carina, straight, oblong, obtuse, with a short 
auricula and unguis, bearing a few hairs near the end; ca- 
rina semi-ovate, blunt; its petals quite distinct at the base, 
cohering at the extremity not only by the inferior but even 
by their superior margin. Sheath of the monadelphous sta- 
mens split upwards ; at their free extremity the filaments are 
alternately filiform and linear, compressed (almost ligule- 
form) ; anthers all equal, oblongo-linear, cordate at the base. 
Ovary shortly stalked, slightly falcate, attenuated into a thin 
glabrous faleate style with a minute capitate stigma. The 
legume seems to become rather long, those of our specimens, 
though far from maturity, being already 1 inch long and 
scarcely 1 line in breadth. 
.. 66. Chasmone Goodioides, nob.— Fruticosa, ramis gracilibus, 
adscendentibus, glabris, apice parce pubescentibus; stipulis 
setaceis, petiolo brevioribus, patulis; foliolis subcoriaceis, 
obovatis, acutis v. breviter mucronatis, subeequalibus, petiolo 
longioribus, glabris, 1-nerviis, subaveniis; racemis terminali- 
bus, brevibus, paucifloris, pedicellis setaceo-bibracteolatis ; 
calyce corolla dimidio breviore, labio superiore 2-,inferiore 
3-dentato; legumine lanceolato-lineari, stipitato, sericeo- 
puberulo. TE 
Inter lapides ad latera montium Winterhoeksberge, alt. 
2000’, Uitenhage (IV. C. c.) Apr. 1839. Krauss, n. 929. — — 
. This comes close to €. cuneifolia, E. Mey. comm. p. 71, 
but is certainly dictinct, especially in the form of the folioles 
Which, besides, are of a peculiar, half fleshy texture, and 
show, when held against the light, numberless transparent 
points (which, however, are by no means produced by glands, 
but merely owing to the peculiar parenchyma) ; they are 5-6 
lines long and 3-4 lines broad; and when quite young, are 
Covered with a minute and scattered pubescene. The sti- 
pules attain scarcely one line in length, while the petiole 
varies from 2 to almost 5 lines. Flowers 3-6, in short, often 
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