7- Annals of the South African 



Flowers solitary, terminal or axillary, yellow. Calyx-lobes 6-7 mm. 

 long, ]'5-2 mm. broad, lanceolate, acuminate, acute, densely pubes- 

 cent, almost villous ; tube 4 mm. long, campauulate. Pedicel 4 mm. 

 long, terete, pubescent. Vexillum 1 cm. long, 7 mm. broad, ovate, 

 acute, glabrous, with a semiterete claw 3 mm. long ; alae 8'5 mm. 

 long, 3 mm. broad, oblong, truncate at the apex, with a narrow 

 linear claw 3 mm. long ; carina 8'5 mm. long, 3 mm. broad, almost 

 plano-convex in outline, obtuse, with a claw 2'5 mm. long. Stamens 

 monodelphous, with 6 filaments longer than the other 4 ; the longer 

 filaments 8'5 mm. long with globose anthers ; the shorter filaments 

 7 mm. long with inear anthers. Ovary 4 - 5 mm. long, oblong in 

 outline, niany-ovuled, villous ; style 5 mm. long, arcuate ; stigma 

 globose. Fruit 1'4 cm. long, oblong-linear, turgid, silvery-pubescent. 

 Near L. laxa, E. & Z., from which it differs in having larger leaves 

 and a differently shaped vexillum. 



L. Dieterlenii, Phillips, sp. nov. ( Krebsia). Sttffrutex 20-35 poll, 

 altus. Kami longi, graciles e caudice, dense pubesceutes. Folia 

 petiolata, trifoliolata. Petiolus 5 mm. longus, pubescens. Foliola 

 1'3-1'9 cm. longa, l-3'5 mm. lata, lanceolata, apice acuta, mucronata, 

 basi angustata, pubesceutia. Stipula circiter 2 mm. longa, linearis. 

 Itiflorescentia laxa, peduuculata, racemosa vel spicata, axillaria. 

 Pedunculus 2-7 cm. longus, dense pubescens, supra 1-4-florifer, infra 

 nuclus. Bracteae 2-5 mm. longae, - 5-l mm. latae, ineares vel 

 lanceolato-lineares, pubescentes. Pedicellus 1'5 mm. longus, teres, 

 villosus. Tubus calycis 5'5 mm. longus, villosus ; lobi 2 mm. lougi, 

 ovati, acuminati, apice acuti, villosi. Vexillum 9 mm. lougum, 

 ovatum, apice retusum, subtus pubescente ; alae 1 cm. lougae, - mm. 

 latae ; carina 1 cm. louga, 2 mm. lata, apice obtusa. Ovarium 4 mm. 

 longmn, villosum ; stylus 6 mm. lougus, arcuatus ; stigma capitatum. 

 Fructus junior 6 mm. longus, villosus. 



Slopes of high mountains. 20-35 in. high, flowers mauve-grey. 

 Malavangeng, Leribe District. Summer. A. Dteterlen, 871. 



DISTRIBUTION : Endemic. 



SESUTO : Mosita-tlali. See Buchenroedera viminea. 



A shrub 20-35 in. high. Branches long, slender, densely pubescent. 

 Leaves petiolate, 3-foliate, petiole 5 mm. long, pubescent ; leaflets 

 1 3-1/9 cm. long, l-3'5 mm. broad, lanceolate, acute, mucronate, 

 narrowed at the base, pubescent. Stipules solitary, about 2 mm. long, 

 linear. Flowers in racemose or spicate long-peduucled axillary lax 

 inflorescences. Peduncles 2-7 cm. long, densely pubescent, bearing 

 1-4 flowers on the terminal portion, naked below. Bracts 2-5 mm. 



