Lotononas. | LEGUMINOS (Harv.) 61 
long, silky canescent on both sides, complicate ; flowers 1-3, sub-sessile ; 
calyx thinly silky, tubular, the segments much shorter than the tube, the 
lowest very small, subulate ; petals nearly twice as long as the calyx, 
silky, the carina straight, very long. 
Has. Namaqualand, A. Wyley, Esq. (Herb. T.C.D.) 
A slender (perhaps annual) species, with sub-distantly forked stems. Petioles 
3-4 lines long ; leaflets rather shorter, hoary on both sides. Flowers 7 lines long ; 
the carina nearly twice as long as the vexillum. Upper calyx segments connate in 
pairs for half their length, much broader than the lowest segment, and nearly twice 
as long. Ovary many-ovuled. This has a different habit and calyx, and a much 
longer carina than L. porrecta ; and differs equally (except in ramification) from 
L. Leobordea. It has larger flowers than either. 
40. L. Leobordea (Benth.! Lond. Journ. 2. p. 607) ; procumbent, 
sub-dichotomous, silky-canescent ; stipules oblong or lanceolate, small ; 
leaflets obovate-oblong, silky-villous ; flowers 2-5 together, sub-sessile ; 
calyx deeply and sharply cut, its upper segments lanceolate, acuminate, the 
lowest setaceous ; petals exserted, villous, the carina arched ; legume ob- 
long or oval, as long or twice as long as the calyx, turgid, sparsely 
puberulous. Leobordea lotoides, Del. &c., fide Benth. l.c. Leptis sp., Zey- 
her, 409 ! 
Has. Springbokkeel and Bitterfontein. Feb.—May, Zey./ (Herb. Sd., Hk., Bth.) 
Root annual ? stems prostrate, 2-4 inches long, the whole plant clothed with long 
and soft whitish hairs. Petioles 4-4 inch long ; leaflets about the same length. 
Flowers 2-3 lines long, the carina most prominent. In the 8. African specimens 
the legumes are about as long as the calyx, but sometimes § longer ; in those from 
Arabia and N. Africa, which are in other respects very similar, the legume is some- 
times short as in the Cape individuals, and sometimes fully twice as long. The 
habit is very like that of ZL. clandestina, but the calyx segments are much longer 
and more tapering ; the lowest is always very slender, but variable, being either as 
long as the rest, or very much shorter. 
41. L. clandestina (Benth. ! 1. c. p. 607); procumbent, dichoto- 
mous, tomentoso-canescent ; stipules very minute ; petioles short, leaf- 
lets one obovate-oblong; flowers in pairs or solitary, sub-sessile ; 
calyx tubular, tomentose, with short teeth, the lowest subulate, very nar- 
row ; vextllum and ale shorter than the calyx, the carina exserted, arched, 
tomentose; legume tomentose, scarcely longer than the somewhat 
enlarged calyx. Benth.—Capnitis clandestina, E. Mey.! Comm. p. 81. 
Has. Plains of the Gariep, between Verleptram and Natvoet, Drege. (Herb. Bth. Sd.) 
Slender, repeatedly forked, with leaves and flowers at the forks ; the internodes 
longer than the leaf. Petiole 1-2 lines long ; leaflets 2-2 lines. Flowers 3 lines 
long, the calyx $-line wide, in fruit 14 lines. I have only seen the single specimen 
in Herb. Benth. . 
8. LEPTIS. (Sp. 42-58.) 
42. L. Burchellii (Benth. Lond. Journ. 2. p. 612); “dwarf, decum- 
bent ? much branched, densely silky-villous, greyish or silvery; stipules 
cordate-ovate or orbicular ; leaflets obovate; heads of flowers dense, 
sessile, few-flowered; bracts very broad, sub-cordate-reniform ; corolla — 
shorter than the calyx; the oblong, acuminate vexillum andthe arched 
carina nearly glabrous; legume silky, at length turgid, as long as the — 
calyx. Spi ae 
Has. S. Africa, Burchell, No. 2539. 
This may be easily known by its bracts and stipules. 
