40 CONSPECTUS TABULARUM. 
fima-subulata, petalis breve unguiculatis, vexillo subrotundo sericeo, 
carina glabra rostrata acuta, legumine ? 
Har.—Stony places, on the Vanstaadensberg Mountains, Uitenhage, C. Zeyher / 
No. 2313. (Herb. T. C. D.) 
Descr.—Root woody, deeply descending. Stems 2-4 inches long, 
very slender, ascending or diffuse, slightly branched, thinly covered 
with minute, close-pressed, silky, and silvery hairs. Leaves an inch 
apart, the petiole 4~1 inch long, filiform ; leaflet 2 inch long, 4-5 lines 
wide, varying from ovate to elliptical, mucronulate, very minutely sil- 
very on the lower surface only. Stipules none. Peduncles terminal or 
opposite a leaf, 3-4 inches long, erect. Flowers yellow, resembling 
those of Zotus corniculatus. Calyx campanulate, the 4 upper segments 
triangular-acuminate, the lowest subulate. Vexillum silky : carina and 
ale glabrous. Ovary lanceolate, silky, tapering at base into an imperfect 
stipe; style long, straight, glabrous. The 5 longer stamens with roundish, 
abortive anthers. 
A graceful little species, and the only one known to me with unifo- 
liolate leaves. In the several specimens I have examined, both in Herb. 
Sond. and T.C. D., this character is uniform. 
Fig. 1, Lotononis monophylla ; the natural size. Fig. 2, the calyx; 3, the same 
laid open; 4, carina; 5, one of the ale; 6, stamens; 7, pistil; enlarged. 
LXIV. CRABBEA ANGUSTIFOLIA, Nees. ( Acanthacee.) 
C. angustifolia : ‘molliter hirsuta, bracteis setoso-ciliatis immargina-~ 
tis, corolla tubuloso-infundibuliformi, foliis lanceolato-linearibus obtusis! 
—Nees in DC. Prod xi. p.163. 
Has.—Macallisberg, Burke. (Herb. T. C. D., comm. cl. Hook.) 
Descr.— Many stemmed. Stems decumbent or ascending, subsimple, 
6-12 inches long, hirsute. Leaves opposite, the pairs about an inch 
apart, secund in the lower or procumbent portion, 3-4 inches long, 
about 3 lines wide in the middle, linear-lanceolate, tapering to each end, 
entire, covered with softish, patent hairs, the midrib and sub-parallel 
lateral veins prominent on the lower surface. Peduncles very short, 2- 
3 lines long. eads ovate, surréunded by several imbricated, broadly 
lanceolate, ribbed, and penninerved bracts, which are roughly setose on the 
ribs and margin, and bordered with long bristle-shaped cilia, but not mar- 
gined. Corolla narrow, funnel-shaped, the tube not much exceeding 
the calyx, the limb short, subequal, with undulate, ovate, ribbed, and 
veiny lobes. -Anthers scabrous. Ovules about 3 in each cell. 
Besides the present, there are three other species now included in 
Crabbea, all having a similar aspect and inhabiting the same districts. 
_ Fig. 1, Crabbea angustifolia ; the natural size. Fig. 2, the calyx; 3, the corolla, 
laid open, showing the insertion of the stamens; 4, an anther; 5, a pistil, the ovary cut 
vertically ; 6, another vertical cutting of the ovary, taken at right angles to the last; 7, 
the stigma; all variously magnified. 
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