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A much branched lindershrub, usually growing in dense 

 clumps from a perennial root. Only known to us from the 

 upper districts of the colony, and having much the appearance 

 of A. aethiopicum, Thunberg, for which species it has doubtless 

 been mistaken, but it differs in having more numerous stems 

 from the root, thus forming larger clumps, leaves which are 

 sub-sessile and not amplexicaul, flat, not revolute edged, sepals 

 which are not lanceolate, nor acute ; in the absence of black 

 dots from sepals, petals, and anthers, and by its 5 styles, 

 and 5-celled capsule. 



Buchenroedera sparsiflora. Wood & Evans. 



A much branched undershrub, under 6 inches high ; branches 

 divaricate, younger ones silky. Leaves clustered in the upper 

 portion of the branches, 1| lines long, equalling the leaflets 

 petiole. Leaflets cuneate, mucronulate, thickly clustered, silky. 

 Stipules linear- oblong, acute, equalling the petiole. Flowers 

 solitary, axillary and terminal ; peduncles 1-1| lines long. 

 Calyx 3 lines long, silky like the leaves, lobes deltoid, shorter 

 than the tube, bracts linear, longer than the calyx. Legume 

 pilose, twice or more longer than the calyx. Flowers dark 

 purple. 



Habitat. Natal. Smmit of Bushman's River Pass, 8-9,000 

 feet altitude. April. M. S. Evans, No. 716. 



Differs from B. tenuifolia E. & Z. in inflorescence, and prob- 

 ably in relative length of vexillum, also in indument. From 

 B. trichodes it differs in indument, shape of leaflets, length of 

 bracts, and also in inflorescence. 



Grotalaria dura, Wood & Evans. 



Herbaceous, erect, sparingly branched, pubescent. Leaves 

 petiolate, trifoliolate, leaflets varying from ob-lanceolate to 

 linear oblong, mucronulate, minutely and thickly punctate 

 above, pubescent beneath, the terminal one 7-9 lines long, 

 lateral 6-7 lines long, petioles 3-6 lines lines long, petiolules 

 ^-| line long. Stipules none. Inflorescence terminal on 

 stems and branches: Raceme laxly few flowered. Calyx tube 

 turbinate, 1-1^ lines long, globes subulate, longer than the tube 

 Bracts linear, as long as pedicels. Vexillum sub-orbiculate, 

 alae narrow oblong, carina broadly falcate. Style falcate, 

 pubescent in upper half. Legume obliquely oblong, or elliptical 

 oblong, crowned with the remains of the persistent style, 

 villous, valves hard and horny. Seeds 4 ? Flowers yellow. 



Habitat. Natal. Amongst grass on hill sides, Noodsberg. 

 2-3,000 feet altitude. J. Medley Wood, No. 4,134 ; same 



