402 THE GENUS BORBONIA LINN. LEGUMINOS.E. 



cm. long. 1-6 mm. broad, lanceolate, acuminate, acute, pungent, 

 prominently 5-8-ribbed beneath, smooth above, glabrous, with 

 the margins thickened and smooth. Flowers terminal, solitary, 

 2-nate, or in a short lo-flowered raceme. Pedicels .3-1.6 mm. 

 long. Bracts when present setaceous. Calyx-tube 4.5 mm. long, 

 campanulate, ribbed, glabrous ; lobes 5 . 5 mni. long, ovate, 

 acuminate, acute, ribbed. Vcxillum 1.75 cm. long, 1.15 cm. 

 broad above, obovate, emarginate above, shortly clawed, densely 

 pilose; alae i cm. long, .5 mm. broad, plano-convex in outline, 

 pilose, with a linear claw 6 mm. long ; carina densely pilose. Fruit 

 3-4 cm. long, 4 mm. broad, linear, acuminate, glabrous. " Fl. 

 Cap.," ii. 28. 



Riversdale Division: near Riversdale, 700 ft. Boltisl; 

 Corente River, Nov., Muir 62!. Caledon Div.-: near Caledon, 

 Nov., Pappe 3!. Worcester Div.: Hex River Valley, 1,500 ft., 

 Jan., Tyson 742!. Stellenbosch Div.: Hottentot's Holland Moun- 

 tains, Zeyher 1213!, Pappe 3!. Cape Div.: Kenilworth, Dec, 

 Bolus 7286!; Rondebosch, Nov., Zeyher !; Wynberg, Pappe 3!, 

 March, Ecklon and Zeyher 134!; Claremont Flats, Schlechter 

 98!; plains at Kommetje near Simonstown, c. 100 ft., Nov., 

 Galpin 3916!; Zwatrivier, Nov., Pappe\; Koeberg, Nov., Pappe 

 3!. Mossel Bay Div.: Ruyterbosch, Miss Britten 124!. George 

 Div.: George, Jan., Mrs. Patterson 1224!. Port Elizabeth Div.: 

 Van Staden's River Mountains, 100 ft., Jan., Bolus, 1606!; Van 

 Staden's, near Port Elizabeth, Sept., Mrs. Patterson 1741. 

 Uitenhage Div.: Witteklip, 400 ft., Jan., Bolus 13332!, MacOwan 

 1099!; Uitenhage, Oct., Ecklon and Zeyher 336!; Krakahamma, 

 Jan. to March, Zeyher, 1212!. Albany Div.: Rondebosch, Dec, 

 Huiton in Herb. Albany Mus.! 



var. gracilis (Harv., " Fl. Cap.," ii. 28). Differs from the 

 type in the slender habit and the 3-nerved leaves. 



Ceres Div.: Gydouw, near Ceres, 3,200 ft., Jan.. Bolus\; 

 Matroosberg, near Laken Vlei, 3,500 ft., Jan., Phillips 1931 ! and 

 in Herb. Musei Austro-Afric. 11731! Tulbagh Div.: Tulbagh 

 Waterfall, 150 ft., Nov., Schlechter, 9061 ! 



var. robusta, Phillips var. nov. Suffrutex 50-60 cm. altus. 

 Folia 3-nervigera. 



South- West Africa: Middle of Khamiesberg plateau, N.E. 

 of Leiiefontein, 4 000 ft., Jan., Pearson in Percy Sladcn Memorial 

 Exped. 6346 ! 



This is a very distinct variety. It agrees with var. gracilis 

 in having 3-nerved leaves, but is a much-branched shrub 18 in. 

 high. 



var. villosa, Phillips var. nov. Ramuli et calyces villosi. 



Caledon Div.: near Elim, c. 1,000 ft., Dec, Bolusl Port 

 Elizabeth Div. : Port Elizabeth, Nov., Kemsley in Hei'b. Albany 

 Mus. iioi ! Bredasdorp Div.: Mtns. near Koude River, 800 ft., 

 Schlechter 9732 ! 



