66 LEGUMINOSH (Harv.) [ Lotononis. 
and Bentham; but to me they appear to run together by insensible gradations. 
Stems 2-6-8 inches long, the shorter sub-erect, the longer trailing. Some of Drege’s 
specimens may belong to different species. Zeyher’s No, 2311 is more robust than 
usual, but scarcely different. 
57. L. versicolor (Benth. 1. c. p. 610) ; suffruticose, minute, diffuse, 
much-branched, villoso-pubescent; stipules oblong, solitary; leaflets 
small, on short petioles, obovate or cuneate-oblong, thinly silky ; flowers 
solitary, on very short pedicels, opposite the leaf; calya silky, deeply 
cut, its lobes acuminate, much shorter than the petals, nearly of equal 
length, the lowest subulate ; vexillum obovate-acuminate, sub-ciliate 
or villous, about equalling the arched, obtuse, glabrous or villous ca- 
rina ; pod thinly hairy, scarcely longer than the calyx, somewhat turgid. 
Crot. versicolor, E. Mey. Linn. p. 152. Leptis versicolor, EB. & Z. 1 1267. Lept. 
filicaulis, E. & Z.! 1268. Lipozygis Kraussiana, Meisn.?—jide Benth. 1. ¢. 
Has. Uitenhage and Albany, £.¢Z. (Herb. D., Sd., Bth., Hk.) 
Root woody ; stems 3-6 inches long, spreading on the ground. Pubescence very 
variable. Leaflets mucronulate. Nearly allied to Z. tenella, but with a shorter calyx, 
pedicels, and more glabrous corolla. 
58. L. sessilifolia (Harv.); shrubby, erect, densely rufo-sericeous ; 
virgate, leaves crowded, sessile or nearly so, trifoliolate, the leaf- 
lets lanceolate, acute or subpungent, complicate ; stipules none ; flowers 
3 Or 4 together, subsessile towards the ends of the branches; calyx 
silky, its 4 upper teeth very short, triangular, the lowest longer, subu- 
late; petals glabrous, the vexillum narrow-obovate, the rest with long 
claws ; legume rufo-sericeous. 
Has. Magaliesberg, Burke. (Herb. Hk., Bth., Sd.) 
__Erect, woody, branched from the base, the whole plant densely clothed with soft, 
silky, close-pressed, reddish hairs. Leaves closely set, imbricate ; leaflets 4-1 inch 
long, 1-14 line wide, tapering to each end, when dry the leaves of the lamin folded 
together. Flowers small, often crowded near the ends of the branches. Legume 3-1 
inch long, 1} lines wide, linear, acute, many seeded. This has the foliage of one of 
the flat-leaved triphyllous Aspalathi; but the pod of a Lotononis. 
XV. LISTIA, E. Mey. 
Calyx trifid, the anterior segment subulate, the lateral broader, bi- 
dentate. Carina obtuse, longer than the vexillum and ale. Stamens 
monadelphous. Legume linear, compressed, many-seeded, repeatedly 
folded and twisted from side to side. H. Mey. Comm. p. 81. Endl. Gen. 
6491. Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. 3. p. 338. 
: beer sre species has the habit of a Lotononis of the section Polylobium ; 
= ~— m all the other Genistes in the remarkable twisting and folding of its 
— e trifid calyx is formed of 5 sepals, the four uppermost of which are 
= est and connate in pairs ; the anterior is much narrower, and stands apart. 
_ the name is In memory of Fr. Z. List, » German botanist. 
1. L. he lla Mey. 1. 
Leh: eee (E. Mey. 1. c.). Benth. Lond. Journ. 3. p. 338. 
Has. Dry stony hills near Gaatje, 4600 ft., and on table lands near Wildschuts- 
hoek, 4000 ft. Drege! Storm 8 spruit, Burke and Zeyher! Burchell, 
Queenstown District, Mrs. Barber? (Herb, D., Hk., Sd, Beh.) —— 
Root perennial. Stems slender, procumbent, not much branched, 6-12 inches long ; 
the whole plant nearly glabrous. Stipules in pairs, unequal, small. Leaves trifo- 
