52 CONSPECTUS TABULARUM. 
ale patentes ; carina recta. Stamina monadelpha, tubo superne fisso. 
Ovarium sessile, acutum, pluriovulatum; stylus brevis, rectus; stigma 
simplex. Legumen ? 
P. cajanifolia, Harv.— Psoralea cajanifolia, Benth. in Herb. MSS. 
Haz.—Magaliesberg, and near the Crocodile River. Burke and Zeyher! No. 448. 
Dr. Pappe, No. 161. (Herb. T. C. D., Hook, Sond.) 
Descr.—A tall, branching, densely leafy shrub. Branches and 
twigs silky with fulvous hairs. Petioles 2 inch long. Leaves 3-fo- 
liolate; leaflets 2-24 inches long, $-1 inch wide, broadly lanceolate 
or lanceolate-obovate, acute at base, mucronate, opaque, prominently 
ribbed and closely penninerved beneath, fulvo-sericeous. Stipules 
setaceo-subulate, free. Peduncles terminal and axillary, subcorymbose, 
1-2 inches long, bearing globose or oblong capitate-spikes of flowers. 
Each flower is subtended by a subulate bract, and has a pair of setaceous 
bracteoles at the base of the calyx. Calyx subinflated, with a narrow 
mouth, silky. Veai/lum narrow, spathulate, silky on the outside, con- 
cave, not bent backwards. Ale widely spreading. Carina quite 
straight, as is also the short style. Ovules 6-8 in a double row. 
With a habit like some Psoralee, this plant has essential characters 
nearer Lotononis, from which the corolla and style and the whole habit 
separate it. From Psoralea it differs in having numerous ovules and 
monadelphous stamens, 
Fig. 1, Pletospora cajanifolia ; the natural size. Fig. 2, a flower; 3, the calyx laid 
open ; 4, vexillum and alz; 5, staminal tube laid open; 6, ovary cut vertically; all 
magnified. 
LXXXII. ASTRAGALUS BURKEANUS, Benth. (Leguminos@.) 
A. Burkeanus: erectus, glaberrimus, glaucescens; stipulis maxi- 
mis foliaceis semicordato-oblongis acutis liberis; foliolis 8—12-jugis 
oblongis mucronatis ; pedunculis folio longioribus, floribus racemosis 
patentibus ; calycis laciniis tubum campanulatum equantibus; legumine 
elongato compresso glabro longiuscule stipitato.— Benth. in Herb. 
Has.—Magaliesberg, Burke & Zeyher! (Herb. Hook. Sond.) 
Descr.—oot annual. Stems 12-18 inches high, slightly flexuous, 
terete, pale. Lower stipules uncial, 5-6 lines wide ; upper, shorter and 
narrower. Leaflets 6-7 lines long, 2-3 wide, varying from narrow 
oblong to sublanceolate, pale green and thin. FJowers small and slender, 
scarcely 4 lines long. Calyx tube 1 line long, the segments narrow- 
lanceolate. Petals subequal, or the ale rather the shorter. Stipe of 
the legume 2-3 lines long; legume 1 inch long, 24 lines wide, com- 
pletely bilocular, netted with veins, and thin. 
This belongs to the section ‘‘ Galegiformes,’”’ and is nearly allied to 
A. graveolens, tigrensis, venosus, and Abyssinicus. It is highly interest- 
ing in a geographical point of view, being the only species of the ex- 
