50 LEGUMINOS& ( Harv.) [ Lotononis. 
Leaflets cuneate-oblong or linear, or somewhat obovate : 
Thinly appressedly silky or sub-glabrous : 
Stipules in pairs; petioles very short ; 
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Stipule solitary ; petioles rather long : 
Procumbent ; fl. 2~5 together ; le- 
gume thrice as long as calyx ... (49) brachyloba. 
Diffuse or sub-erect ; fl. 1-2 ; legume 
many times as long as the calyx _—_(g0) falcata, 
Patently hairy or densely villous : 
Calyx-lobes nearly as long as corolla ... (56) tenella. 
Calyx-lobes much shorter than corolla ... (57) versicolor. 
Shrubby ; stems erect, virgate, sub-simple ; lvs. sessile (58) sessilifolia. 
1. AULACINTHUS (Sp. 1-3). 
1. L. gracilis (Benth. ! Lond. Journ. 2. p. 597); shrubby, erect, 
much branched, silky and canescent; branches slender; leaflets on 
long petioles, linear or oblong, obtuse, acute at base, appressedly silky 
on one or both sides; racemes terminal, laxly 6-8 flowered; bracts 
subulate, deciduous ; calyx thinly silky; legume appressedly downy, 
about twice as long as the calyx. Aulacinthus gracilis, EH. Mey. ! Comm. 
p- 156. 
- Var. 8. anomala; legumes (abortive ?) an inch long, linear-attenuate. 
Has. Rockyplaces, on the Roodeberg and Ezelkop Mountain, Kamiesberg, Drege/ 
Var. 8. Kamiesberg, Dr. Pappe! (100). (Herb. Hk., Bth., D.) 
A woody bush, a foot or more in height, densely much branched, silvery. Peti- 
oles 1-2 inches long, channelled ; leaflets $-} inch long, 4-1 line wide ; sometimes 
the lower ones are but 2 lines long, and nearly 1 line wide. Racemes 3-4 inches 
long, the flowers half an inch apart. The pods are ordinarily 3-4 lines long, 14 
lines broad ; but in var. 8, which in all other respects is identical with Drege’s spe- 
cimens, the pods are over an inch long, not a line wide, and nearly glabrous. 
(51) carinata. 
2, L. rigida (Benth. Lond. Journ. 2. p. 597); shrubby, spinescent, 
densely much branched, rigid, silky-canescent ; stipules minute or none ; 
leaflets on short petioles, linear, obtuse, acute at base, appressedly silky ; 
tacemes short, few-flowered; calyx patently hairy; legume roughly 
pubescent, more than twice as long as the calyx. Aulacinthus rigidus, 
E. Mey. ! Comm. p. 157. 
Has. Zwartland and at Mortkui / erb. Benth. 
Very like L. gracilis, but alle sat ma chat mi short petioles, and a 
roughly hairy calyx and legume. I have only seen very imperfect specimens. 
3. L. viborgioides (Benth, 1. c.); shrubby, slender, diffuse or de- 
cumbent, much branched, very thinly and appressedly downy or glab- 
rescent ; branches slender, here and there hardened into spines; stipules 
sohtary, lanceolate ; leaflets oblongo-cuneate, longer than the petiole ; 
racemes terminal, laxly 4-6 or 8 flowered; calyx minutely puberulous ; 
ovary glabrous. Zey. 2319. 
Has. Cape Colony, Bowie? Thom! Hassagaiskloof, Zeyher ! (Herb. Hk., Bth., Sd.) 
A low growing, somewhat trailing, slender shrublet, secede at base ; the pubes- 
cence scant and sometimes excessively minute. Leaves, including the petiole, about 
4 inch long. Stipule as long as the petiole, or much shorter. Flowers 2 lines long. 
Legume not known. ee 
2. KREBSIA (Sp. 4-11). 
4. L. cytisoides (Benth. Lond. Journ, 2. p. 598) ; shrubby, branches 
