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XLVI, § PAPILIONACER (BAKER), 
Leaves digitately trifoliolate. . . . 1... . . « » 84 CAMoENsIA, 
Leaves imparipinnate. 
Corolla papilionaceous. 
Pod fattish, membranous. «... . =... i. OB. Chior, 
fod turpid moniifornm . cia} Vo. tre BGs Bopnens: 
Pod coriaceous, not monijiform . ... . . . + . 87. Onmosta. 
Petals uniform : oe Se, CADIAL 
Tree 10. Swartziex.— Stamens indefinite. Petals 6,1, or 0. Trees or shrubs. 
Leaves simple or imparipinnate. Leaflets entire. 
Stamens inserted at the base of the calyx. 
Petals 6 . Sees eee ee 
Poe 
Stamens inserted half-way up the calyx. 
Petals none . Se en a ee 
. 89. Bapntiopsis, 
. 90. Swarrzia. 
. 91. Corpyza. 
1. LOTONONIS, DC.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. i. 476. 
Calyx turbinate, the four upper teeth often more or less connate. 
Standard oblong; keel bluntly upcurved: wings much shorter and 
smaller. Stamens all connate in a tube slit along the top; anthers 
alternately shorter and versatile, longer and basifixed. Pod linear- 
oblong or linear, compressed or turgid, many-seeded, continuous within. 
—Herbs or undershrubs with digitately trifoliolate leaves. 
A large genus almost confined to the Cape. 
Flowers subsessile in the axils of the leaves. 
Standard exceeding the keel . . . . . . . +. - « «Ls De tenuis. 
Keel exceeding the standard. 
Keel equalling the calyx . . . . . . - + «+ + « « 21 DL. Leobordea. 
Keel distinctly exserted . . . re ee ee en L. clandestina. 
Flowers in many-flowered congested racemes. ee 
pple ioliatedtisn ss 0 Rl ee eae 
Stipules linear . Biv Fe angolensis. 
1. L. tenuis, Baker. A copiously branched diffuse annual half a 
foot high with slender thinly grey-silky branches. Sti ules setaceous, 
very minute. Leaflets linear, the central one 6—10 lines long, }-? 
line broad, acute, the lateral ones very much shorter, inconspicu- 
ously grey-silky. Flowers 1-2 on very short pedicels in the axils 
of the leaves. Calyx } in. long, thinly grey-silky, the five teeth dis- 
tinct, the lower three linear, as long as the tube, the two upper ones 
lanceolate, shorter. Corolla yellowish, the standard slightly exceeding 
the keel, which slightly exceeds the calyx. Pod linear, 5-6 lines 
long, 1 line broad, upceurved, turgid, slightly torulose, 21-24-seeded, 
inconspicuously grey-silky. 
Lower Guinea. Angola; Mossamedes in sandy ground by the river Beco, Dr. 
Welwitsch ! 
Very different in habit from any other species. 
2. L. Leobordea, Benth. in Lond. Journ. Bot. 2, 607. Stems 
under six inches long, procumbent, copiously and diffusely branched, 
herbaceous, clothed like the rest of the plant with yellowish silky 
pubescence, Stipules lanceolate, } in. Petiole 4—} im. Leaflets 5, 
