Lotononis. | LEGUMINOS# (Harv.) 47 
Has. Port Natal, Krauss/ (339) Gueinzius. (Herb. Hk., Sd., D.) 
Shrubby, much branched, glabrescent except the younger branches and peduncles. 
Petioles variable, 4-1 inch long, almost all furnished with a pair of leafy stipules of 
about half theirlength ; leaflets }~1 inch long, 2-3 lines wide, cuneate at base. Racemes 
5-6 flowered, the bracts and bracteoles caducous; pedicels longer than the calyx, 
glabrous above the bracteoles, Calyx cup-shaped, with wide rounded spaces between 
the teeth. Carina covered with white, woolly hairs on its upper half ; the other pe- 
tals glabrous. Flowers yellow, $ inch long. 3 
XIII. PLEIOSPORA, Harv. 
Calyx ovoid, 5~fid; 4-upper segments approaching in lateral pairs, 
the lowest narrowest. Verllum straight, vaulted ; ale patent ; carina 
straight. Stamens monadelphous, with a split tube. Ovary sessile, ta- 
pering into a subulate, straight style ; ovules numerous; stigma simple. 
Legume? 
A shrub, with the habit of a Psoralea, the calyx and stamens of a Lotononis, and a 
corolla very different from either. All the petals are uniform in colour. Name 
from mAeiov, more, and omopa, a seed; the numerous ovules distinguishing it from 
every Psoralea. 
P. cajanifolia (Harv. Thes. t. 81) ; Psoralea cajanifolia, Benth.! in 
Herb. Hook. 
Has. Magaliesberg and near the Crocodile River, Burke § Zeyher! Zey. No. 448. 
Pappe! 161 (Herb. Hk., Bth., Sd., D.) 
A tall shrub, branching and densely leafy. Branches and twigs silky with fylvous, 
shining hairs. Petiole } inch long. Leaves trifoliolate; leaflets 2-2} inches long, 
§~1 inch wide, broadly lanceolate, or lanceolate-obovate, acute at base, mucronate, 
opaque, prominently ribbed and closely penninerved beneath, fulvo-sericeous. Sti- 
pules setaceo-subulate, equalling the petiole, free. Peduncles terminal and axillary, 
sub-corymbose towards the end of the branches, 1-2 inches long, bearing globose or 
oblong, spicate heads of flowers : each flower sub-tended by a subulate bract, and 
having a pair of setaceous bracteoles at the base of the calyx. Calyx ovoid, sub- 
inflated, with a narrow mouth, silky; its segments of nearly equal length, the four 
upper connate in pairs, the lowest subulate, narrower. Vexillum spathulate, nar- 
row, silky on the outside, and on the claw within, concave, not bent backwards. 
Ale and carina of nearly equal length, the ale widely spreading ; the carina not 
curved upwards at point, its petals nearly free, and of the same colour as the rest. 
Colour of the flower uncertain. Ovules 6-8. 
XIV. LOTONONIS, DC. Benth. 
Calyx sub-unequally 5-fid, the lowest segment narrower than the 
rest, and unconnected with them ; the four upper approaching in pairs, 
and more or less connate into two bifid lobes, rarely quite separate, and 
then all the segments sub-equal. Vexillwm obcordate or oblong, com- 
monly pubescent; carina obtuse or acute. Stamens monadelphous. 
Ovary many ovuled. Legume oblong or linear, more or less compressed, 
many seeded. Benth.! in Lond. Journ. 2. p. 594. Leobordea, Del. Leptis, 
Lotononis, Krebsia and Polylobium, E. & Z. Acanthobotrye sp. E. & Z. 
Crotalarie sp. Aulacinthus, Telina, Iipozygis and Capnitis, E.Mey. 
A large genus, chiefly South African (a few inhabit Southern Europe and Central 
Asia), very various in habit, shrubby, suffruticose or herbaceous. _ Leaves very 
generally 3-foliolate, rarely §—foliolate, and in one case uni-foliolate. Stipules fre- 
quently solitary, more rarely in pairs, or none, always free. Inflorescence various, 
racemose, umbellate, capitate, or with solitary flowers. _ monly yellow. The 
species are here arranged after Bentham, under eight seotions, readily d 
by the characters given in the following a 
