Aspalathus Pendunculata. Small-Leaved Aspalathus.
Class and Order.
Diadelphia Decandria.
Generic Character.
Cal. 5-fidus: lacinia superiore majore. Legumen ovatum muticum subdispermum.
Specific Character and Synonyms.
ASPALATHUS pendunculata foliis fasciculatis subulatis glabris, pedunculis filiformibus folio duplo longioribus. L'Herit. Sert. Angl. t. 26. Ait. Kew. v. 3. p. 16.
No. 344
Of the five species of Aspalathus enumerated in the Hortus Kewensis, four are natives of the Cape; of those, three have been introduced by Mr. Masson: the albens and candicans in 1774, the present species in 1775.