58 LEGUMINOS& (Harv.) [Lotononis. 
lets variable in breadth. Peduncles 2-3 inches long. Flowers small. Legume 2-24 
lines long, very turgid. E. & Z. confounded this plant with Crotalaria humilis. 
28. L. micrantha (Thunb. & Harv. ; non E. & Z.) ; procumbent, 
thinly sprinkled with very minute, appressed hairs; branches filiform ; 
stipule solitary, small, oblong or lanceolate ; leaflets cuneate-oblong or 
linear, or those of the lower leaves obovate ; peduncles slender, elongate, 
umbellate, many-flowered ; bracts minute ; calyx thinly silky, with trian- 
gular-acuminate teeth ; petals glabrous, on long claws, the carina ros- 
trate ; legume ovoid, turgid, scarcely longer than the calyx. Ononis micran- 
tha, Thunb.! Cap.p. 587. Crotalaria micrantha, H. Mey.Comm. p.27. C. 
tenuiflora, Steud. Loton. rostrata, Benth. l. c. p. 604. 
Has. Cape, Thunberg ! On shrubby hills, Roodesand, Drege! (Herb. Th. D. Bth. Hk.) 
Stems extensively trailing. Leaflets 3, narrow ; those of the upper leaves especi- 
ally. Peduncles 1-14 inch long ; flowers very small. Peduncles not quite twice as 
‘long as the leaves ; the umbel somewhat like that of Trifolium repens. Stipule some- 
times falcate. Legume very short. This is the original “ Ononis micrantha” of 
Thunberg, a very appropriate name and worthy of being preserved. 
29. L. acutiflora (Benth. |. c. p. 604); procumbent, thinly canescent 
or glabrescent ; ramuli filiform ; stipule solitary, small, “orbicular” or 
oblong-lanceolate ; leaflets usually Jive, narrow-cuneate or sub-linear ; 
peduncles shorter than the leaf, umbellately several-flowered; bracts 
_ Shorter than the longish pedicel ; calyx appressedly and thinly silky, 
its segments lanceolate ; legume silky, oblong, falcate, at length turgid, 
scarcely longer than the calyx. Crotalaria quinata, EL. Mey, Com. p. 27! 
Has. Near Krakkeelskraal, Clanw., Drege! (Herb. Benth, Hook.) 
A small, half-herbaceous, slender species, 2-4 inches high ; known from its neigh- 
bours by the usually quinate or digitate leaves. Petioles 1 inch, lamina 4-3? inch 
long. The pubescence is very scanty, the hairs minute and closely appressed. 
30. L. oxyptera (Benth. ! 1. c. p. 605); procumbent, thinly silky or 
villoso-pubescent ; stipule solitary, small, obliquely ovate or lanceolate ; 
leaflets 3, ovate or oblong ; peduncles long or short, villous, capitately 
several-flowered ;_ bracts longer than the very short pedicel ; calyx 
tomentose, with deltoid-acuminate, sub-falcate teeth ; legume (* turgid, 
not much exceeding the calyx ” t) 
Vaz. a. longipes ; peduncles longer than the leaf. Pol. sparsifiorum, E, § Z.! 1293! 
Var. 8. brevipes ; peduncles shorter than the leaf. Crotalaria oxyptera, E. Mey! 
Comm. p. 28. 
Has. a, Tulbach ist hill si i 
(Herb. Bik, ke aK moist hill sides, F. ¢ Z./ 8. Drakensteen hills, Drege ! 
Stems trailing, not much branched, thinly or thickly clothed with short, curly, 
soft hairs. Petioles 41-inch long ; leaflets as long, 2-3 lines wide, very blunt or emar- 
ginate. Peduncles ¢-inch long, softly hairy. Flowers 5-6, sub-sessile, Legume 
unknown tome. Bracts linear or oblong, small. The two varieties scarcely differ 
except in the length of the peduncle ; var. 8, is rather the most hairy. . : 
_ 81. L. monophylla (Harv. Thes. t. 63); suffruticose, slender, ascend- 
ng, appressedly puberulous and silve ; Stipules none; leaves unifo- 
liolate, leaflet. ovate or oblong, mucronulate, glabrous above, silvery 
beneath ; peduncles elongate, umbellate, 4—5-flowered, bracts minute ; 
calyx appressedly and minutely silvery-puberulous, upper segments 
