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Tivfolium.] LEGUMINOS# (Harv.) 159 
Erect or diffuse, not prostrate : root annual. 
Flowers red or white : 
Leaflets very long, linear-lanceolate, acute .. ... (4) angustifolium. ~~ 
Leaflets obovate-oblong, retuse or emarginate ... (5) stipulaceum. 
Flowers yellow : 
Heads 30-40 flowered ; vex. spreading, strongl k 
Purrowed? 2. 523: St ene ag bs (6) agrarium. “ 
Heads 10-15 flowered; vex. connivent, nearly 
BMOOCD ...0 ek bere See 90s sew. Abi Jae cited: (7) procumbens, °¥ 
1, T. Burchellianum (Ser. in DC. Prod. 2. p. 200) ; nearly glabrous; 
stems procumbent or prostrate, rooting; leaves on long petioles ; leaf- 
lets obcordate, denticulate, nerve-striate, glabrous ; stipules oblongo- 
lanceolate, leafy ; peduncles axillary, elongate; heads many flowered, 
flowers subsessile ; segments of the subglabrous calyx setaceo-subulate, 
nerved, longer than the tube ; legume obovate, mucronate, 2—-seeded ; 
seeds ovate, dark brown. 7’. repens, Thunb.! in Herb. Ups.. non Linn. 
LE. § Z.! 1507. 
Has. S. Africa, Burchell. Moist places at the foot of Devil’s Mt., Capetown ; 
Puspas Valley, Swell. ; Adow and Port Elizabeth, Uit., Z. ¢ Z./ Near Swellen- 
dam, Dr. Pappe! Howison’s Poort, Mr. Hutton / Orange River ; near Colesberg ; 
near Sedbury, Burke § Zeyher! (Herb. Th., Hk., D.) 
Root perennial. Stems numerous, proceeding horizontally on or under the soil, 
rooting at the nodes, 1-2 feet long. Petioles 1-3 inches long. Leaflets }—4 inch 
long, broadly obcordate, cuneate at base, the midrib and closely placed lateral nerves 
prominent ; the latter prolonged upwards into marginal teeth. Heads resembling 
those of ‘white clover” (T. repens). Calyx teeth very slender and long, bristle- 
pointed. There are sometimes a few villous hairs on the peduncle and calyx : such 
specimens almost unite with 7. africanum, B. 
2. T. africanum (Ser. in DC. Prod. 2.-p. 200); villoso-pubescent or 
hirsute ; stems procumbent or prostrate ; leaflets cuneate-oblong, obtuse 
or emarginate, denticulate, nerve-striate, villoso-pubescent 3 stipules ob- 
longo-lanceolate, leafy ; peduncles axillary, elongate, hirsute; heads 
many flowered; segments of the villous calyx setaceo-subulate, nerved, 
longer than the tube; legume? 7. hirsutum, E. Mey.! Comm. p. 91, 
non Thunb. 
Var. 8. glabellum ; stem and leaves either glabrous or sparingly hirsute ; petioles, 
peduncles and calyces villous. #. Mey. l.c. T. africanum, £. ¢ Z. 1508 in Hb. D. 
Has. Moist places near Mooyplaats and Camdeboosberg, 4-4500f., Drege. Near 
the Orange River, Burke § Z / 8. Tambukeland, Z.§ Z. Port Natal, Drege, 
Sanderson, &c. (Herb. Hk., D.) 
Closely allied to 7. Burchellianum, from which it chiefly differs by its narrower 
leaflets, rarely subobcordate, mostly rounded at end, and usually copious pubescence. 
Var. 8. is, however, an intermediate state, sometimes nearly glabrous, and then 
only to be known by its narrow leaflets. I have seen no authentic specimen of 
Burchell’s pt and describe from a sp. in Hb. Hooker, marked by Bentham. 7. 
hirsutum, Thunb. ! fide Hb. Upsal, is some Lotononis not ascertained. 
3. T. tomentosum (Linn. sp. 1086); stems procumbent or prostrate ; 
leaflets broadly obovate, glabrous, sharply serrulate, striate ; stipules 
ovato-lanceolate, much acuminate ; peduncles very short, axillary ; heads 
globose, flowers sessile ; calyces after flowering much inflated, membra- 
nous, netted with veins and tomentose, the segments shorter than the minute 
corolla ; legumes one seeded. DO. Prod. 2. p. 203. E. §& Z.1 1513. 
Has Sand: near the Amsterdam Battery, Table Bay, E. ¢ Z.! Pappe / 
W.H.H. hat ae W. Elliott. Simon’s Bay, OF} Wright ! (Herb. D., — 
