76 . FLORA OF SOUTH AFRICA. 
corymbiform, racemes, yellow ; pedicels about as long as the - 
calyx (2-3 lines.) Calyx pubescent, the upper lip shorter 
than the lower; petals glabrous. Legumen (young) abo 
1 inch long, 2 lines broad, with a stalk of the length of the : 
calyx-tube, the style strongly falcate, often almost gent 
culate. A 
67. Ch. holosericea, E. Mey. ! comm. p. 72.—4rgyrolobium © 
sericeum, Eckl. et Zeyh. enum. p. 184.—— Gamochilum sericeum, — 
Walpers in Linnea 13, p. 510.—In solo argillaceo-arenoso, - 
Langekloof (IV, B. b.) Febr. 1839. Krauss, n. 920. 
B. incana, nob.—Foliis laxiuscule cano-pilosis, novellis tan- 
tum sericeis, racemis laxiusculis, calyce cano-tomentoso.— 
In lateribus montium Baviaanskloof (IV, B. b.) Dec. 1838.- 
Herb. Krauss, propr. 23 
Our plant, which is exactly the same as Dr. Meyer's, an 
most probably also as Ecklon's, does not at all agree with the 
essential character of Dr. Walpers's genus Gamochilum, theu 
per lip of the calyx being distinctly bifid, and even more deep 
so than in the preceding species; but, indeed, sometim 
the two lobes, though plainly distinguishable, remain a long 
time coherent, or perhaps do not separate at all, which ma 
be the case in several species, as it certainly is in our C? 
longifolia. We cannot, therefore, consider the genus Gamo- 
chilum as sufficiently distinct. Our var. fj. is intermedia 
between Ch. holosericea and obcordata; the latter, which we 
have not seen, may be, perhaps, rather a variety or mere form 
of the same species, as in Ch. holosericea the form of the 
leaflets and inflorescence is almost the same.—Flowers yel- 
low, 6 lines long. 
68. Ch. sessiliflora, E. Mey. comm. p. 72 (probably y.) ! 
solo argillaceo-arenoso per totum distr. Langekloof, George 
(IV, B. c.) Febr. 1839. Krauss, n. 919.— Argyrolobium candi- 
cans, Eckl. et Zeyh. en. p. 186, to which Dr. Walpers refers 
Meyer's plant (without having seen it), seems to differ b 
longer petioles, and especially by * stipulis ovato-acuminatis 
basi subconnatis folio vix brevioribus.”—A. stipulaceum; 
