82 LEGUMINOS (Harv.) ‘[Loddigesia. 
1. H. obcordatus (Thunb. Prod. 124); Thunb. Fl. Cap. p. 570. DC. 
Prod. 2. p. 135. Deless. Ic. 3. t. 63. Bot. Mag. t. 3894. Mauwnd. Bot. 4. t. 
198. Eck. & Z./ 1255. Benth. Lond. Journ. 3. p. 354. Crotalaria cordi- 
folia, Linn. Mant. p. 266. Spartium sophoroides, Berg. Cap, 198. 
Has. Cape, Thunberg! Kochman’s Kloof, Mundt/ Puspasvalley and Kochman’s 
Kloof, Swell., 2. ¢ Z./ Cederberg and Dutoit’s Kloof, Drege / Schurfdeberg, Pappe / 
(Herb. Th., Bth., Hk., Sd., D.)_ 
A large shrub or small tree, densely branched, ramulous and closely covered with 
leaves, glabrous, except the growing parts. Twigs angular. Leaves trifoliolate ; 
leaflets 8-10 lines long, 6-8 lines wide, obcordate or obovate, deeply emarginate or 
truncate, mucronate, or sub-cuspidate, folding together when dry, reticulate with 
prominent ribs and veins beneath. Stipules subulate, deciduous. Racemes terminal, 
ovoid or oblong, densely many-flowered. Flowers reddish purple or lilac. Calyx 
rufescent. Legumes 14 inch long, 14 lines wide, linear-lanceolate, tapering at base, 
with a short stipe. A very Bs, nie! shrub. 
XX. LODDIGESIA, Sims. 
Calyx of Hypocalyptus. Vexillum much shorter than the ale and 
carina, Legume ovato-lanceolate, acute at each end, flat, the upper su- 
ture thickened, few-seeded. Benth. in Hook, Lond. Journ. 3. Pp. 355- 
Endl. Gen. No. 6476. 
A small glabrous suffrutex, with palmately trifoliolate leaves, and small, purple 
and white flowers in short, terminal racemes. The name is in honour of Conrad 
Loddiges, the celebrated nurseryman at Hackney, who died in 1820; and who, with 
his sons, greatly contributed to the progress of horticulture in England, during the 
last and present century. 
L. oxalidifolia (Sims, Bot. Mag. t.965) ; DC. Prod. 2. p.136. B.&Z.! 
1256. Benth. in Lond. Journ. 3. p. 355. 
Has. Among shrubs, on mountain sides. Zwarteberg and Klynriviersberge, 
E. &Z.! Pappe! Near George and Gnadendahl, Drege! Alexander Prior, §c. (Herb. 
Bth., Hk., Sd., D.) 
_ A-slender, erect or diffuse, laxly branched, small, glabrous shrub. Twigs terete, 
rufescent, flexuous, patent. Leaves trifoliolate, on very slender, setaceous petioles, 
equalling the lamin or longer. Leaflets obcordate or roundish-obovate, deflexed, _ 
mucronulate, netted-veined. Racemes terminal, few or several flowered, lax, 
lengthening. Bracts minute. Pedicels nodding, bibracteolate above the middle. 
Flowers 3-5 lines long, the vexillum and ale white; the keel dark purple at the 
point. The vexillum varies much in size in different specimens, sometimes scarcely 
exceeding the calyx, sometimes 3~4 times as long, but it is always shorter than the 
other petals. Legume stipitate, ovato-lanceolate, compressed, pointed at each end, 
XXL LEBECKIA, Thunb. 
Calyx obliquely-campanulate, shortly 5-toothed with rounded inter- 
spaces, rarely 5~cleft. Carina obtuse or sub-rostrate, longer than the 
ale, and usually than the vexillum. Stamens monadelphous. Ovary 
linear, sessile or stipitate, many ovuled. Legume linear, either flat, sub- 
compressed, terete or turgid. Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. 3. p. 355 
End. Gen. No. 6478. Stiza, Lebeckia, and Sarcophyllum, E. Mey. Acantho- 
botrya, Calobota and Lebeckia, E. d&: Z. ae 
Small shrubs (often spiny) or suffrutices, very diverse in habit. Leaves either 
unifoliolate or palmately 3-foliolate, glabrous or without stipules, Flowers 
racemose, yellow. Name in memory of Lebeck, bra Batre erg 
