Lotononis. | LEGUMINOSZ (Harv.) 59 
triangular-acute, lowest subulate; petals on short claws, the vexillum 
sub-rotund, silky, the carina glabrous, rostrate; legume? Zey. No. 2313! 
Has. Stony places, on the Vanstaadensberg, Uit., C. Zeyher! (Herb. D., Sd.) 
Root woody. Stems 2~4 inches long, scarcely branched, decumbent, then erect. 
Leaves an inch apart ; petiole $-1 inch long ; leaflet ?—inch long, 4-5 lines wide. 
Peduncles terminal or opposite the leaf, 3-4 lines long. Flowers like those of Lotus 
rade a The pubescence is very minute, and closely appressed. Legumes not 
own. 
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6. LIPOZYGIS. (Sp. 32-37.) 
* $2. L. pentaphylla (Benth. 1. c. p. 60 5); procumbent, much-branched, 
1 softly and densely silky, and fulvous ; stipule solitary, small, lanceolate ; 
4 leaflets often five, obovate ; heads sessile, densely many-flowered ; bracts 
very narrow ; calyx densely and softly hairy; petals hairy, the vexil- 
lum oblong, obtuse, carina oblong, incurved. Lipozygis pentaphylia, 
L. Mey.Comm. p. 79. 
Has. Karakuis, Drege! (Herb. D., Bth., Hk.) 
Stems perhaps prostrate, 6-12 inches long or more, pale, softly silky : the pubes- 
cence of the whole plant fulvous or foxy. Petioles 3-4 inch long ; the leaflets not 
longer, broadly obovate, 2-2} lines wide. Heads of flowers densely hairy, globose, 
terminal and lateral. 
33. L. polycephala (Benth, ! 1. c. p. 605); decumbent, branching, 
densely and very softly silky-villous ; stipule solitary, oblongo-lanceolate; 
leaflets three, obovate, softly and densely villous on both sides; heads 
sessile, densely many-flowered ; bracts broadly ovate ; calyx shaggy, 
somewhat inflated ; vexillum broadly obovate, it and the incurved hel- 
met-shaped carina silky. Lipozygis polycephala, LE. Mey. Comm. p. 79. 
Has. Kamiesberg, Drege! (Herb. D., Hk., Bth.) 
The whole plant densely clothed with long and soft, pale or fulvous hairs. Peti- 
oles 4-1 inch long ; leaflets rather shorter. Heads of flowers at the ends of short 
axillary ramuli ; the bracts very broad, acute or acuminate ; by which character it 
differs from all of the present section, except the following. 
34,\L. anthylloides (Harv.) ; decumbent, flexuous, branching; stems — 
thinly pilose ; stipule solitary, broadly oblong or oval; leaflets 3, ob- 
ovate or obcordate, glabrous above, silky-pilose beneath ; heads sessile, 
densely many-fiowered ; bracts broadly oblong or ovate ; calyx shaggy, 
its segments long and subulate, nearly equal ; vexillum narrow-oblong, 
it and the blunt carina silky-pilose ; ale and carinal petals eared at base. 
Has. Namaqualand, A. Wyley, Esq. (Herb. T.C.D.) 
Allied to L. polycephalum, of which it has the inflorescence and calyx, but from — 
which it remarkably differs in pubescence, in the shape of the vexillum, the long 
earlike appendages of the lower petals, and in minor characters. Stems 6-8 inches 
long, curved, purplish. Leaflets 4-5 lines long, 3 lines wide at the very obtuse or 
emarginate summit, as long as the petiole or shorter. Stipules and bracts very broad, 
Heads very hairy, the calyx tube somewhat swollen, scarcely equalling the laciniz. 
Legume not seen. The habit is that of an Anthyllis. 
35. L. eriantha (Benth. 1. c. p. 605); ascending or sub-erect, slightly _ 
branched, thinly and softly villous ; stipule leaflike, longer than the short 
petiole ; leaflets oblong-elliptical or broadly lanceolate, very acute, pilose 
on both sides ; heads sessile, laxly several-flowered; bracts small, 
setaceous ; the calyx, the oblong-acuminate vexillum, and the obt 
arched carina, all silky ; legume compressed, at length sub-ti silky, 
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