73 XLII. LEGUMINOSZ. 
ple, entire, sessilo, exstipulate, often with revolute margins. Flowers purple 
or rosy, with the keel dark-tinted, axillary and subsessile or crowded in a 
leafy spike.—9 species, all but 3 either Western or South-Western. 
6. LATHRIOGYNE, E. and Z. 
Calyx, ovary, and legume, as in the 1-ovuled species of Am- 
phithalea. Corolla scarcely longer than the calyx; the keel 
incurved, beaked.— Fl. Cap. 1. p. 593. 
Only 1 species, L. parvifolia, E. and Z., found in Hott. Holl. and 
Zwarteberg Mountains. A small, twiggy shrub, 12-18 inches high. Leaves 
4 lines long, lanceolate, flat, silky and silvery. Flowers 2-4, capitate, ter- 
minal, yellow, almost hidden in the very hairy calyx. 
7. CHALIDIUM, Vogel. 
Calyx nearly equally 5-fid. Standard obovate, shortly clawed, 
reflexed ; wings oblong; keel oblong, straight, obtuse, bluntly 
spurred at each side. Stamens monadelphous, the tube often 
very short. Ovary l-ovulate. Legume ovate, 1-seeded.—J#1. 
Cap. i. p. 24. 
Small, much-branched South African shrubs or undershrubs. Leaves 
simple, entire, sessile, exstipulate, with the margin mostly inflexed, closely 
pubescent on the upper, either glabrous or silky on the lower.—8 species, 
chiefly South-Western. 
8. WALPERSIA, Harv. 
Calyx campanulate, 5-cleft; the two upper lobes broader 
than the 8 lower. Petals nearly of equal length, all attached 
to the base of the staminal tube ; standard ovate, with a small 
callosity at the top of the claw; wings oblong, eared at base ; 
keel subincurved, bluntly spurred at each side. Stamens 
shortly monadelphous, 5 longer. Ovary 2-ovuled; style subu- 
late. Legume ?— Fl. Cap: ii. p. 26. 
W. burtonioides, H., the only species, was found by Zeyher at Glassen- 
bosch. A small shrub. Leaves petioled, linear, with reflexed margins. 
Flowers axillary, yellow. Calyx 2-bracted at base. Ovary sessile, silky, 
with a long style. A very rare, little known plant. 
Trrpe 3, GENISTER. (Gen. 9-24.) 
9. BORBONTA, Linn. 
Calyx acute at base, equally 5-cleft, the segments pungent. 
Standard hairy, emarginate ; keel obtuse. Stamens 10, mona- 
delphous, with a splittube. Ovary 2- or several-ovuled ; style 
filiform ; stigma capitate. Legume linear, compressed, longer 
than the calyx, several-seeded (rarely 1-2-seeded).—F7. Cap. 
li. p. 27. 
South African shrubs or undershrubs. Leaves alternate, simple, very rigid, 
