256 Annals of the South African Museum. 



glabrescent above, sparingly strigose below, 05-l*l cm. long; 

 peduncles filiform, up to 6 cm. long, laxly several-flowered above 

 tbe middle, tbe flowers ascending ; bracts soon deciduous, linear- 

 setaceous, - 2 cm. long; pedicels Ol cm. long; calyx strigose with- 

 out, 04 cm. long, the segments lanceolate, long acuminate, 0'3 cm. 

 long ; vexillum 0'6 cm. long, the lamina suborbicular ciliate, the 

 claw scarcely Ol cm. long; alae as long as the vexillum, oblong, 

 widened above the middle, oblique at the apex, obtuse, at the base 

 posticously minutely gibbous, the claw very short ; carina as long as 

 the wings, obtuse ciliate, saccate in the middle, the claw almost 

 equalling the lamina ; ovary narrow-linear several-ovuled, 0'4 cm. 

 long ; legume cernuous linear-terete, the immature valves somewhat 

 torulose, finally convex, thinly strigose, 1-1 cm. long, the seeds 7-9, 

 quite glabrous. 



Probably nearest /. gracilis, but is distinguished by being an 

 annual with the leaves often 5-foliolate, with longer petioles, linear- 

 setaceous stipules, lax racemes, and acuminate calyx segments. 



Plate VII., O, Fig. 1, sketch of plant, nat. size; 2, flower; 3, 

 calyx ; 4, ditto, laid open, inner view ; 5, vexillum ; 6, ala ; 7, carina 

 — all the latter x 3 ; 8, androecium ; 9, gynaeceum x 4 ; 10, ovary, 

 one side removed, x 6. 



17. SYLITEA. 



1. S. biflora, E. Mey., Comm. PI. Afr. Austr., 114. 



Great Namaqualand : Sandy river-bed near Dabaigabis, 4404. 

 Dry river-bed 20 km. North of Eaman's Drift, 4542. Among rocks 

 at Dabaigabis, 4318. Common in shallow stream-bed on stony 

 plains 12 km. West of Sandverhaar, 4611. 



18. TEPHEOSIA. 



1. T. sphaerosperma, Baker, in Oliver, Fl. Trop. Afr., ii., 125. 

 Great Namaqualand : Sand dunes at Sandverhaar, 3,100 ft., 4683, 



4951. 



2. T. Dregeana, E. Mey., in Linnaea, vii., 169. 



Great Namaqualand : Sandstone at Sandverhaar, 4668. Near 

 base of kopje 15 miles South-east of Grvindoorn, 4576. Common in 

 sandy valley North of Sabiesis, 4113. Sand South of Warmbad, 

 5031. Sandy valley 20 km. North of Eaman's Drift, 4521. Damara- 

 land : Barren granite slopes, Welwitsch, 4417. 



