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longer than the tube. Standard about 1 cm. long, lamina obovate, base auriculate ; 
wings obliquely oblong ; carina boat-shaped, obtuse. Ovary pilose, style filiform, glabrous. — 
East GRIQUALAND.—Between Mt. Insiswa and the River Umzinhlawa, Krook No. 2584. 
Natat.—Rudatis No. 1617; near Boston, Wood No. 11824. 
Var. Burchellii, Burtt-Davy in “Kew Bull.,” 1921, 193. 
Slender voluble herb. Leaves trifoliolate, terminal somewhat rhomboid, 13-20 mm. 
long, 9-15 mm. broad, below sparsely glandular.  Pedumcles longer than the leaves, 5-7-5 
cm. long, generally laxly 5—-7-flowered. Calyx glandular, upper lobes short, lower longer, 
subulate, acuminate. Standard glabrous, with purple-brown lines. Pod strigose, reaching 
2 cm. long. 
Cape Province.—Near Komgha, Flanagan No. 796; Van Stadensberg, Burchell 
No. 4746; Kentani, Pegler No. 2032; Humansdorp Div., Kromme River, Burchell No. 
4860. 
Kast GRIGUALAND.—Near Clydesdale, Tyson No. 2073. 
Natat.—Umzumbi, Wood No. 3143. 
Var. nov. grandiflora. 
Folia trifoliolata, foliolis terminalibus rhombeo-triangularibus apice acutis 30-45 mm. 
longis, 25-55 mm. latis. Racemi multiflori cum pedunculo, 8-10 em. longi. Flores luiei, 
12-15 mm. longi, longiuscule pedicellati, pedicellis 3-4 mm. longis. Calyx in toto 9-10 mm. 
longus, hirtus et glandulosus, dentibus superioribus 3-5 mm. longis, inferioribus 6-7 mm. 
longis. Vezallum extus glabrum. 
Natau.—Lundies Hill, Wood No. 11401, Natal Herb. No. 12427. 
The leaflets are thin and covered with scattered hairs. The two uppermost teeth 
of the calyx are more or less connate, the lowest segment very narrow. It is allied to 
R. flavissima Hochs*., but the carina is shorter and the calyx is longer. The wing petals 
are oblong with a short spur on one side. 
Series 11.—Flowers, 10-13 mm. Leaves trifoliolate or wnifoliolate, leaflets rigid, elliptic- 
oblong or subrhomboid. Peduncles generally long, larly 3-8-flowered. Standard glabrous. 
24. R. nervosa, Benth., er Harvey, l.c. 253. 
Stem prostrate or twining hispid-pubescent. Stipules small, narrow lanceolate or 
subulate. Leaves in typical form trifoliolate, shortly petiolate, terminal leaflets elliptic- 
oblong or subrhomboid, rigid, 3-nerved at base, hispido-pubescent 30-60 mm. long, 
15-35 mm. broad, common petioles hispido-pubescent or villous, 3 15 mm. long or some- 
times longer. Peduncles generally long, laxly 3-8-flowered. Calyx lobes lanceolate 
acuminate, longer than the tube, shorter than the standard. Standard glabrous, 8-12 mm. 
long. Pod sessile, villous. 
Capr.—Sand River and Langspruit, Zeyher; Winterberg, Ecklon and Zeyher. 
NATAL.—Near Intshanga, Wood Nos. 6231 and 6545; near Gillits, Wood No. 7990 ; 
Claremont, Wood No. 7994. 
East GRIQUALAND.—-Clydesdale, Tyson No. 1056. 
TRANSVAAL.—Lydenberg, Wilms No. 381; Hoogeveld, Wilms No. 385; Pretoria, 
A. O. D. Mogg No. 15636; Vereeniging, Rogers No. 11904; Kaalfontein, Pole-Evans 
No. H.16796 : Jeppestown Ridge, Johannesburg, Gilfillan No. 54; Barberton, &. Galpin, 
No. 1003. 
Forma unifoliolata, Bak. fil. 
Caules teretes, flexousi. Folia saepissime unifoliolata, late ovata, petiolo brevi suf- 
fulta. Racemi laxi, 2-5-flori, foliis longiores. Flores + 1 cm. longi. Veaillum glabrum. 
NYLSTROOM.—Mrs. De Jongh No. 6521. 
