52 LEGUMINOS (Harv.) [ Lotononis. 
branched, everywhere thinly silky, with short, white, closepressed hairs ; 
_ leaflets small, linear or cuneate ; stipule solitary, lanceolate-linear ; 
peduncles one-flowered, short ; veaillum and legume densely silky ; calyx 
teeth acuminate, as long as the tube. Zeyher ! 399. 
Has. Wolf-kop, near Caledon, Burke and Zeyher. (Herb. Bth., Hk., Sd.) 
A small, much branched suffrutex, 8-12 inches high ; stem woody at base, break- 
ing up into many, slender, flexuous, vaguely divided branches. Leaves, including 
petiole, not half an inch long, the leaflets mostly cuneate, 4 line in breadth ; stipules 
generally as long as the petiole, sometimes wanting. Flowers sub-solitary toward 
the ends of the branches. Pods } inch long, 14 lines wide. 
9. L. densa (Harv.); shrubby, diffuse or decumbent, much branched, 
unarmed, thinly canescent, stipule . . . ; leaflets 3, on short petioles, 
narrow cuneate-oblong, folded, glabrous above, thinly silky beneath ; ra- 
cemes terminal, laxly fewflowered ; calyx thinly canescent, campanulate, 
its teeth triangular, about equalling the tube; vexillum glabrous, acute ; 
legume . . . ¢ Lebeckia densa, Thunb, ! Fl. Cap. p. 562. Acanthobotrya 
decumbens, E. § Z. 1345. 
Has. South Africa, Thunberg ! Kochmanskloof, Swell., Z. ¢ Z. (Herb. Th., Sd.) 
A rigid, woody, thick stemmed and densely much branched, small bush, 12-18 
inches high, very thinly covered with short, closepressed, whitish hairs. Petioles 
3-4 lines long ; leaflets about eq g them, very narrow and folded together. 
Flowers yellow ; 4 or § in a raceme, nodding, 3 lines long. 
10. L. digitata (Harv.) ; slender, ascending, much branched, nearly 
or quite glabrous ; stipule solitary, falcate ; leaves on very long petioles, 
5-foliolate, leaflets linear or lin. lanceolate, acute, very narrow, compli- 
cate; racemes opposite the leaves and terminal, laxly 3-4 flowered ; 
calyx narrow, acute at base, the upper segments lanceolate, sub-connate, 
the lower subulate; legume falcate, glabrous. 
Has. South Africa, Capt. Carmichael / (Herb. T.C.D.) 
In foliage and flower this is puzzlingly like Z. quinata, but the inflorescence and 
l are quite different. Stems filiform, 6 inches high, flexuous, Petioles 1-1} 
inches long ; leaflets 4 line wide, 4 inch long, pale green. Legume 14 as long as the ~ 
calyx, not a line wide, strongly curved backwards. The only specimens yet seen 
are in a collection made by the late Captain Carmichael, in some part of the 
eastern provinces, about the year 1814. 
11. L. dichiloides (Sond. in Linn. 23. p. 28); suffruticose, villoso- 
pubescent ; stem (or main branches ?) very long, straight and rod-like, 
densely beset with short, filiform branchlets ; leaves subtending the 
ramuli fascicled ; leaflets narrow-spathulate, mucronate, pellucid-dotted ; 
stipules leaf-like, linear-lanceolate, as long as the petiole ; racemes laxly 
4-6 Howered, terminating the branchlets ; calyx teeth shortly subulate, 
the four upper approaching in pairs, the lowest longest ; petals glabrous, 
the vexillum stipitate ; legume ? 
Has. Port Natal, Gueinzius/ (Herb. Sond.) 
Two or more feet high, erect, simple ? densely clothed with sub-fascicled leaves 
and short axillary branchlets. Lower branchlets 2-3 inches long, upper gradually 
shorter, almost all ending in racemes of yellow flowers. Leaves about 3 together ; 
petiole 4 inch, leaflets 4} inch long, the middle one longest, all tapering at base, 
scarcely 1 line broad. Stipules nearly as long as the petioles or shorter. Racemes 
erect ; the peduncle an inch long, pedicels rather shorter than the calyx. Lower 
calyx tooth widely separated from the rest : all the teeth shorter than the tube. This 
has the habit of Dichilus lebeckioides, but the calyx of a Lotononis. 
