SIX NEW SPECIES AND A KEY 
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L. rigida, E. Mey., non DC. (L. fruticosa, LinclU ex Harv.,Flor. Cop. n. 215). 
Cape Province : South-western Region ; sandy places, Rapenburg, 
nr. Cape Town, F. Guthrie (Bolus Herbarium, No. 7076). Kuil’s 
River, Pappe ; in sand, Hoetje’s Bay, Saldanha Bay, alt. 50 ft., fl. Sept., 
H. Bolus, 12673 ; hill, nr. Hoetje’s Bay, alt. 250 ft., 11. Sept., id., 12672. 
Plate XII, A. 
Harvey seems to have been uncertain as to the validity of this 
species, and was inclined to regard it as being L. fruticosa, Lindl. 
More recent collections have shown that the two species are quite 
distinct. 
L. fruticosa, Lindl. 
Western Region: Little Namaqualand; slopes between Nababeep 
and Modderfontein, alt. 3200 ft., fl. Sept., H. Bolus, 9496; nr. Klipfontein, 
alt. 3000 ft., H. Aug., id., 9497 ; nr. Ookiep, tl. Sept., id., 9499, 9500. 
L. perennans, DC., var. sericea, nov. var., ovario sericeo; legumine pubescente. 
Cape Province : South-eastern Region ; N’Zebanya Mt., nr. Queens- 
town, alt. 5100 ft., fl. Dec., E. E. Galpin, 1912. Kwenkwe Mt., 
Maclear, alt. 5300 ft., 11. Jan., H. Bolus, 13235. Kaffraria, Slang 
River (Ekowe), Gatberg, alt. 400 ft., fl. Dec., R. Baur, 1163. Orange 
Free State, T. Cooper, 1861. Eastern Mount. Prov. Region; Bester’s 
Yallei, Harrismith, alt. 5400—6500 ft., fl. Dec., H. Bolus, 8153. 
Kalahari Region ; Transvaal, Germiston, alt. 6000 ft., fl. Jan., 
F. A. Rogers, 12199 c. 
L. perennans, DC., var. polystachya. L. polystachya, Harv., Flor. Cap. ii. 
216. 
L. pauciflora, Harv., var. Schlechteri, L. Bolus. L. Schlechteri, Bolus, in Engl. 
Bot. Jahrb., 24, 458. 
This variety forms a connecting link between L. pauciflora and 
L. falciformis. I have seen no authenticated specimens of these two 
species except Zeylxer, 471 (regarded by Harv. as a variety of the 
former), where the bearding of the style is round the stigma only. 
This latter character seems the best distinction between L. falciformis 
and L. pauciflora (where the style is bearded ventrally as well as 
apically). Zeylier, 471 should therefore be rather a variety of 
L. falciformis. 
L. Harveyana, n. sp., L. strictae proxime accedit, sed foliolis floribusque 
paucioribus, pedicellis calyce brevioribus, leguminibus sublatioribus 
distinguitur. 
Herba erecta vel decumbens, fere glabra, ramis suberectis vel 
patentibus, tenuibus strictis pallidis, ad 40 cm. longis, internodiis 
15 — 5 cm. longis, saepissime 2 cm. longis; stipulae lanceolatae 
acuminatae, 0'3 — 0'4 cm. longae ; folia adscendentia, deinde patentia 
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