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CAPE.—Pondoland : Omsamcaba, Drege. 
Known by the broadly ovate persistent bracts, the trifoliolate leaves on rather long 
filiform petioles. | 
Series 2.—Leaves trifoliolate or unifoliolate ; leaflets rather large, pubescent. 
+ Leaves trifoliolate. 
11. R. grandifolia, Steud., `` Nom., ed. 2, Il, 454; Harvey, lc. 250. 
Copisma grandifolium, E. Mey., ““ Comm.,” 138. 
Procumbent robust hirsuto-pubescent. Stipules broadly cordate. Leaves trifoliolate, 
subsessile or petiole very short; terminal leaflets ovato-subrotund, hispido-pubescent, 
5-6 mm. long, 4-5-5 cm. broad ; lateral leaflets unequalsided. Peduncles elongate, longer 
than the leaves, closely spicate-racemose beyond the middle. Bracts ovate-oblong, acute, 
persistent, hairy. Calyx segments lanceolate ; uppermost semiconnate ; lowest subulate. 
Corolla glabrous ; standard striped on the back; wings shorter than the standard; keel 
boat-shaped. Young pod hirsute. 
Capr.—Near Kat River, Drége; at foot of Winterberg, Mrs. Barber; Kingwilliamstown, 
Flanagan No. 2137; Kreil’s Country, Bowker. 
Known by the elongate peduncle spicate-racemose beyond the middle, the rather 
showy flowers, and persistent ovate-oblong acute bracts. 
++ Leaves wnifoliolate. 
12. R. simplicifolia, EF. Mey., “ Comm.,” 138; Harvey, Le. 251. 
Described as being very closely allied to R. grandifolia, Walp., but the leaves are simple. 
Stipules cordate-ovate, acuminate. Bracts ovate-lanceolate. 
TRANSKEI.—Umtata, Drége. 
Only known to me from E. Meyer’s description. It is possibly a unifoliolate form 
of R. grandifolia, Walp. 
B.—STEM VOLUBLE. BRACTS CADUCOUS. FLOWERS FASCICULATE. 
Series 3.--Leaflets unifoliolate or trifoliolate, suborbicular, or ovate, or ovate-oblong, 
puberulous. Flowers 12-14 mm. long. 
13. R. monophylla, Schlechter in * Journ. Bot.” (1897) 279. 
Stem voluble, branches decumbent, filiform, elongate. Leaves simple or trifoliolate, 
suborbicular, or ovate, or ovate-oblong, reticulate nerved, 2-5-4 cm. long, 2-3 cm. broad. 
Flowers in axils of leaves, fasciculate. Bracts deciduous. Calyx + 6 mm. long; segments 
linear, acute. Standard suborbicular-rhomboid, + 11 mm. long, 9 mm. broad; wings 
wnguiculate ; keel obtuse, apex incurved, glabrous. Ovary villous. Pod obliquely ovate- 
elliptical, very compressed, base acute, apex acuminate, + 11 mm. long, 5-6 mm. broad, 
TRANSVAAL.— Near Barberton, 2. E. Galpin No. 489; Pretoria, Rehmann No. 4582 ; 
Rogers No. 18942; A.O. D. Mogg, m Govt. Herb., No. 10556; near Witbank Station, 
Gilfillan No. 7184: Lydenberg, Wilms No. 375; near Barberton, Bolus Nos. 1142 and 7603. 
Wilms No. 375 was issued with a ms. name, but it is not specifically distinct from the 
above. 
Oceurs also in Gazaland. 
Var. nov. Eylesii, Bak. fil. 
Caulis procumbens, pubescens. Stipulae latae, ovato-lanceolatae, 5-7 mm. longae. 
Folia saepissime trifoliolata, suprema unifoliolata, foliolis terminalibus late ovatis vel 
suborbiculari-ovatis, 2-5-4 cm. longis, 2-5-3 em. latis; petiolulis foliolorum terminalium — 
8:10 mm. longis; foliolis lateralibus inaequilateralibus. Flores fasciculati. Vezdlum 
flavum, -- 12 mm. longum. Legumen immaturum pilis vestitum. 
