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many-nerved, sessile or amplexicaul, exstipulate. Flowers yellow, axillary 
or terminal, scattered or racemose.—13 species, chiefly Western and South- 
Western. 
10. RAFNTA, Thunb. 
Calyx unequally 5-fid, the lowest segment narrowest. Co- 
rolla glabrous; standard roundish; keel mcurved, either sharply 
beaked or obliquely truncate. Stamens 10, monadelphous. 
Ovary sessile or stipitate, many-ovuled ; stigma capitate. 
Legume lanceolate or linear, the upper suture sharp or some- 
what winged #7. Cap. i. p. 31. 
Glabrous and frequently glaucous South African shrubs and half-shrubs. 
Leaves simple, very entire, alternate, exstipulate. Flowers yellow.—22 
species, very few Eastern. 
11. EUCHLORA, E. and Z. 
Calyx deeply 5-cleft, the lowest segment much narrower than 
the rest. Corolla glabrous; standard long-clawed, roundish, 
reflexed ; wings obtuse, longer than the subtruncate keel. Sta- 
mens monadelphous, with a slit tube. Ovary few-ovuled, 
hairy ; style glabrous. Legume swollen, ovate, few-seeded.— 
Fl. Cap. ui. p. 38. 
E. serpens, E.and Z., the only species, is a small, prostrate undershrub. 
Stem, branches, and leaves hairy. Leaves lanceolate, sessile. Peduncles 
terminal. Flowers small, purplish, in a dense subcapitate spike. Western 
districts. 
12. CROTALARIA, Linn. 
Calyx sub-2-labiate, the upper lips 2-fid, the lower 3-fid. 
Standard large, cordate ; keel faleate-acuminate. Stamens mo- 
nadelphous. Ovary 2- or many-ovuled; style long, sharply-bent, 
often laterally pubescent. Legume turgid, with very convex 
valves, sessile or stipitate, few- or many-seeded.— FV. Cap. u1. 
p. 39. 
A large genus of both hemispheres, mostly tropical. Leaves either 
simple or palmately 3-5-7-folioled, with or without stipules. Flowers ra- 
eemose or subsolitary, yellow, rarely purple.—24 South African species, 
dispersed. 
13. PLEIOSPORA, Harv. 
Calyx ovoid, 5-fid, 4 upper segments approaching in lateral 
pairs, the lowest narrowest. Standard straight, vaulted ; wings 
patent ; keel straight. Stamens monadelphous, with a split 
tube. Ovary sessile, tapering into a subulate, straight style ; 
ovules numerous ; stigma simple. Legume?—#Fl. Cap. i. 
p. 47. 
P. cajanifolia, H1., the only species, is a shrub, with the aspect of a Pso- 
ralea. Leaves 3-foliolate ; leaflets broadly lanceolate, silky. Stipules seta- 
ceous. Peduncles terminal and axillary, subcorymbose, each bearing glo- 
bose or oblong, spicate heads of flowers. Magalisberg and Crocodile river. 
