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sm... LEGUMINOS (Harv.) [Lotononis. 
Has. Barren hills, near Assagaiskloof, Swell., Z. § Z./ near River Zonderende, 
Zeyher, 2316. (Herb. Sond.) 
2-4 inches high, many-stemmed, slightly-branched, with spreading pubescence. 
Leaves densely set ; petiole }~} inch long ; leaflets shorter, 1-2 lines wide, the upper 
ones often acute. Peduncles 1} inch long ; pedicels very short. The legume is 
probably, judging by the shape of the ovary, elongate. ' 
22, L. pallens (Benth. 1. c. p. 605) ; procumbent, thinly pilose ; sti- 
pules solitary or in pairs, obliquely ovate or oblong, small ; leaflets ob- 
ovate or obcordate, glabrous above, ciliolate and sparsely pilose beneath ; ~ 
peduncles much longer than the leaves, sub-capitately several-flowered ; 
bracts obovate or orlicular, longer than the short pedicel; calyx 10-rib- 
bed, piloso-ciliate on the ribs and margin of the falcate segments ; 
carina shorter than the vexillum ; legume? ; ovary glabrous. Polylobiwm 
pallens, E.d& Z. 1 1294. 
Has. Mountain-sides, near Brackfontein, Clanwilliam, £. § Z./ (Herb. Sond.) 
Stems decumbent, pale and weak, 1-2 feet long, thinly sprinkled with long, hori- 
zontally patent hairs. Peduncles 3—4 inches long, similarly hairy. Leaves sub-dis- 
tant, the petiole shorter than the laminz ; leaflets 3, not quite }-inch long, 3 lines 
wide, usually emarginate. The calyx has ciliate ribs, but the inter-spaces are naked. 
Bracts very broad. The carina is short, and not at all acuminate. 
23. L. involucrata (Benth.! 1c. p. 602); diffuse or decumbent, 
loosely hairy in all parts ; stipules in pairs, linear or lanceolate, mostly 
longer than the petiole; leaflets inear or lanceolate, the lower ones nar- 
row-cuneate ; peduncles mostly terminal, rather short, umbellate or sub- 
racemose, many-flowered; bracts leaflike, lanceolate, longer than the 
pedicel, or sometimes equalling the flowers ; calyx-lobes subulate, longer 
than the tube ; legume turgid, not twice as long as the calyx. Ononis in- 
volucrata, Lin. f. Thunb.! Cap. p. 587. Polylobium involucratum, E. § Z.! 
1296, P. tenuifolium, E.& Z.! 1295, and P.angustifolium, E.& Z.! 1297. 
Lipozygis involucrata, E. Mey. ! Comm. p.80. Ononis aspalathoides, DC. 
Zeyher, 2388, 2389. 
Has. Common on dry hill-sides in Cape and Stellenbosch districts. Witsenberg, 
Zeyher! (Herb. D., Bth., Hk., Sd., Th.). 
Variable in the amount of pubescence; sometimes rather thinly, sometimes very 
densely hai hier with pale or foxy hairs. Leaves thickly set ; petiole #4 
inch long ; ets 4-{ inch, sometimes very narrow, not }-line wide, sometimes 
1 line. Peduncles 3-1 inch, rarely 2 inches long, mostly terminating short, ascend- 
ing, leafy branches. Bracts, like the leaves, broad or narrow, }-} inch long. Flowers 
Soe ee but varying to racemes, on the same root. Pod hairy 
or glabrescent. 
24. L. peduncularis (Benth. ! 1. c. p. 602) ; diffuse, more or less hairy, 
the flowering branches ascending; stipules in pairs, linear or lanceolate ; 
leaflets linear or linear-cuneate, glabrescent ; peduncles terminal, elongate, 
umbellate or sub-racemose, several flowered ; bracts lanceolate, linear, 
or ovate-oblong, about equalling the pedicel ; calyx silky, its lobes lanceo- 
late, shortly acuminate, equalling the tube ; carina very obtuse ; legume 
sub-compressed, glabrescent, more than twice as long as the calyx. 
Var. a. Meyeri; less branching and more hairy, with narrower leaflets and linear 
or lanceolate bracts. Lipozygis peduncularis, E. Mey. Comm. p. 79. Ononis umbellata, 
Thunb. ! Cap. p. 587. 
Var. f. secunda; flowering branches numerous, sh d, 8 with. 
few leaves ; leaflets more iabovtin cuneate ; bracts oe oF tale cg 4-8, 
secunda, Benth. ) 
a 
umbellate. Ononis secunda, Thinb./ Cap. 588, (but not Lotononis 
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