76 XLII. LEGUMINOS2. 
22. VIBORGIA, Thunb. 
Calyx oblique, shortly 5-toothed. All the petals with long, 
slender claws; standard ovate; keel incurved or rostrate, longer 
than the others. Stamens monadelphous. Ovary stipitate, 
few-ovuled. Legume stipitate, ovate or rarely oblong, inde- 
hiscent, winged on the upper suture, sharp and thin along the 
lower.— Fl. Cap. ii. p. 90. 
Rigid, slender, sometimes spiny, South African shrubs, with palmately 
3-foliolate leaves, and yellow, racemose flowers.—7 species, natives of the 
Western and Northern districts 
23. BUCHENR@DERA, E. and Z. 
Calyx bell-shaped, subequally 5-fid. Petals villous, on long 
claws ; keel roundish, short and blunt. Stamens monadelphous. 
Ovary 8-10-ovuled. Legume obliquely ovate, somewhat tur- 
gid, 1-3-seeded.— F7. Cap. ii. p. 92. 
Densely silky or silvery small shrubs or half-shrubs, with petioled and sti- 
puled, 3-foliolate leaves, and white or purple flowers.—8 species, all Hastern 
and beyond the Eastern frontier. Easily known from Aspalathus by the 
petioles and stipules. 
24. ASPALATHUS, Linn. 
Calyx bell-shaped, subequally 5-toothed or 5-cleft, or the 2 
upper lobes shorter and broader. Standard short-clawed, erect, 
keeled at back, spreading ; keel incurved or rarely straight. 
Stamens monadelphous, with a split tube. Ovary 2-4-8- or 
rarely many-ovuled; style glabrous, incurved. Legume ob- 
liquely ovate or sublanceolate, subcompressed, acute, 1- or few- 
seeded.— Fl. Cap. il. p. 94. 
A large and most natural South African genus of shrubs and half-shrubs, 
with heath-like or furze-like, rarely flat and broadish, sessile, entire leaves, 
without stipules—About 150 species, arranged under 12 sections (fully de- 
scribed in Fl. Cap.), which may be recognized by the following Key :— 
Flowers sessile or short-stalked, solitary or spiked, 
capitate or racemose. 
Leaves flat (broad or narrow). 
Leaves glabrous or roughly hairy (not silky) . 1. CrepHALANTHm®. 
Leaves silky or very softly and closely hairy . 2. SERICER. 
Leaves terete or 3-sided, linear or subulate. 
Claws of keel and wings attached to the staminal 
BUDS ie ey Ave gs says RSet! n.tsageih Senenale (1 Ob eee 
Claws of keel and wings quite free from the sta- 
minal tube. 
Legume obliquely ovate, short. (Flowers 
intl es Hates i. 5 > SOR al 5 
Legume villous, turgid, ovate or lanceolate, 
reflexed. (Flowers sessile, lateral, mediocre) 5. LATERALES. 
Legume linear-lanceolate, many-seeded . . 6. Macrocarrz. 
4, LEPTANTH. 
