406 THE GENUS BORBONIA LINN. LEGUMINOS^. 



Branches scantily pilose or glabrous. Leaves .8-2.8 cm. long-, 

 .8-2.5 cm. broad, ovate, acute, mucronate, amplexicaul, at the 

 base, prominently 7-10-nerved, glabrous, with the margin, 

 thickened and rigidly toothed. Inflorescence terminal, racemose, 

 more than 5-flowered. Calyx-tube 4 mm. long, campanulate,. 

 villous ; lobes 5 mm. long, ovate, acuminate, acute. Vexillum 

 I.I cm. long, I cm. broad, semi-orbicular, villous without, with 

 a channelled claw 4 mm. long; alse 1.2 cm. long, 3 mm. broad^ 

 oblong, rounded above with a linear claw 4 mm. long; carina i 

 mm. long, 4 mm. broad, plano-convex in outline, with a linear 

 claw 4.5 mm. long. Larger anthers 1 mm. long, oblong in out- 

 line ; the smaller .75 mm. long. Ovary 5 mm. long, compressed, 

 pubescent ; style arcuate ; stigma capitate. Fruit 2.2-3 cm. long,, 

 4.5-5 mm. broad, sub-falcate, compressed scantily pilose. 



10. B. LATIFOLIA (Benth. in Lond. Journal, ii. 462). A 

 shrub 2.3 m. high, erect, with jagged deciduous bark on the 

 older branches. Stem terete at the base (Burchell) ; branches 

 sharply angular below each leaf, purple, glabrous. Leaves 

 imbricate, concave, sessile, not amplexicaul, ovate-orbicular, 

 acutely and abruptly apiculate, cordate at the base, 2.5-3.5 <^iti- 

 long and nearly as much broad, rigidly coriaceous, finely cartila- 

 ginous-denticulate on the margin, strongly 7-12-nerved on each 

 si'de, reddish-purple when dry, glabrous, a little reticulate between 

 the nerves. Flozvers in a dense terminal capitate cluster, only 

 seen in fruit ; fruiting pedicels up to i cm. long, minutely 

 bracteolate near the middle. Fruiting calyx-tube campanulate, 

 about 2 mm. long, glabrous ; teeth more or less subulate, as long 

 as the tube. Pods all dehisced and spirally twisted, 2-2!^ cm. 

 long, nervose and somewhat viscid. 



Caledon Div. : Nieuw Kloof, Houw Hoek Mountains, rocky 

 places, March, Burchell 8087. 



11. B. PARVIFLORA (Lam. Diet, i., p. 437). (PI. 

 XXXIV, Fig. B.) Branches angular, glabrous. Leaves .9-3 cm. 

 long, 4-2.6 cm. broad, ovate, acuminate, acute, pungent, cordate 

 at the base, prominently 7-11-nerved above and beneath, glabrous, 

 with scabrid margins. Flowers in short dense racemes, terminal 

 and usually partly hidden by the upper leaves. Calyx-tube 5 mm. 

 long, campanulate, glabrous ; lobes 4 mm. long, ovate-lanceolate, 

 acuminate, acute; the abaxial lobe longer (7 mm.) than the 

 other four. Vexillmn 1.8 cm. long, obovate, pubescent with- 

 out; claw 5 mm. long, channelled; al?e 1.8 cm. long, oblong, with 

 a linear claw 5 mm. long; carina 1.8 cm. long, plano-convex in 

 outline, with a linear claw 5 mm. long. Ovary 6 mm. long, 

 compressed, glabrous ; style 4 mm. long, arcuate ; stigma capitate. 

 Fruit 3 cm. long, 6-5 mm. broad, glabrous. ," Fl. Cap.," ii. 29. 

 B ruscifolia, Bot. Mag., t. 2128. 



Clanwilliam Div. : Summit Olif ant's River Mountains, behind 

 Warmbaths, Sept., Miss Stephens in Percy Sladen Memorial 



