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Flores congesti, subsessiles, bractea cuneata rotundata breviter 

 cuspidata 4 mm. longa ; bracteolae binae, ad calycis basin, lineares 

 aut subulafcae, ad 2 mm. longae. Calyx 5 mm. longus, dentibus 

 superioribus brevibus, inferiore triangulare ceteris paulo longiore, 

 1-5 mm. longo. Vexillum 6-7 mm. longum, obovatum, rotundatum, 

 in unguem brevem sensim angustatum, dorso superne fulvido- 

 sericulum ; alae anguste oblongae., 8 mm. longae, glabrae ; carina 

 longe unguiculata, alis aequilonga, limbo parvulo 2-5 mm. longo 

 fronte obtusato. Ovarium bb mm. longum, ubique hirsutum, 

 stylo ovario duplo breviore recto glabro, stigmate truncato aut 

 subcapitato. 



Kalahari Eegion. — Transvaal ; between Middelberg and tbe 

 Crocodile Eiver, Wilms, 261c! stonv places near Lydenburg, 

 Wtlms, 261 ! {Herb. Keio). 



5. P. podalyriaefolia, sp. nov. P. multiflorce Diimmer affinis, 

 sed habitu humiliore, caulibus fere simplicibus, foliis aperte petio- 

 latis majoribus aristato-cuspidatis, floribus minoribus differt. 



Flanta perennis, e basi lignoso ramosa, undique floribus ex- 

 ceptis fulvo sericea. Oaules (annul ?) erecti, graciles, simplices 

 aut parce ramosi, ad 10 cm. alti, superne fere cernui, foliati. 

 Folia petiolata, petiolis ad 2 mm. longis ; foliola cuneata, breviter 

 aristato-cuspidata, cuspe 1 mm. longo, lateralia 5-7 mm. longa, 

 2-3 mm. lata, terminalibus paulo majoribus, subtus costa nervisque 

 lateralibus prominulis, subcoriacea. Eacemi terminales, circiter 

 1-8 cm. alti, floribus subsessilibus congestis, bractea subulata. 

 calycis tubum aequans, bracteolis binis oppositis subulatis minutis. 

 Calyx extra fulvido-sericeus, 5-6 mm. longus, segmentis inter se 

 subaequilongis. Vexillum 10 mm. longum, oblanceolatum, rotun- 

 datum, superne in unguem cuneatum mox evanidum, dorso superne 

 sericulum, basin versus glabrescens ; alae 7 mm. longae, longe 

 unguiculatae, frontem versus in limbos obovatos ampliatse, fere 

 glabra ; carina recta, alis aequilonga, fronte fimbriata, ungui- 

 bus gracilibus 4-5 mm. longis. Ovarium suturis hirsutis, stylo 

 ovario duplo aut tertio breviore glabro. 



Kalahari Eegion. — Swazieland ; Havelock Concession, 

 1200 m., Saltmarsh, Herb. Galpin, 989 {Herb. Kew & Zilrich !). 



6. P. ARiSTATA, comb. nov. L. aristata Schinz in Bull. Herb. 

 Boiss. vii. 32 (1899). 



Kalahari Eegion. — Transvaal ; Abbot's Hill, near Barberton, 

 Galpin, 447 ! stony hillsides near Barberton, 690 m., Thorncroft 

 in Herb. Wood, 4157 ! Thorncroft in Transvaal Mus. Herb. 3115 ! 

 in swampy places near Dalriach, 1470 m., Bolus, 11,762 ! near 

 Barberton, Bolus, 7601 ! Houtbosch, Behmann, 6262 ! Bolus, 

 10,096 ! Spitzkop at Lydenburg, Wihns, 263 ! {Herb. Keio). 



Var. GAZENSis, comb. nov. L. aristata var. gazensis E. G. 

 Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. xl. 51 (1911). 



Gazaland. — Chimanimani Mountains, 2100 m., Sivynnerton in 

 Herb. Mus. Brit., 1418 ! South-eastern Ehodesia, Melsetter, 

 1800 m., Sioynnerton in Herb. Mus. Brit., 6196 ! 



A common plant in the Transvaal and neighbourhood, easily 

 distinguished by its ascending subsimple leafy branches, and 



