21)0 XLTIIT. T.EGl'MiyOS.T. 



Leaves 3-foliolate; petioles y^^-| in. long, silky; stipules minute, triangular, 

 acute, persistent. Leaflets |-| by j\-^ in., broadly obovate-cuneate, 

 occasionally retuse (the lateral leaflets more or less oblique), silky on 

 both sides with appressed hairs ; petiolules very short. Peduncles 

 reaching 1-2 in. long, very slender, 1-4-flowered. Calyx pubescent 

 outside ; upper lip shorter than the lower ; teeth all triangular, acute. 

 Corolla rose-colored or purplish ; standard longer than the upper lip of 

 the calyx. Pods ^-| in. long bv ^ in. broad, silky-pubescent. Seeds 

 10-15. Fl. B. I. V. 2, p. 64 ; Ait. Pb. & Sind PL p. 38. A. Kotscluji, 

 Boiss. Diag. ser. 1, fasc. 6, p. 32. 



A very rare plant. Sind : Stocks ! ; Boogta hills, Vicary ex Aiichison (1. c). — 

 DisTRiB. India (N.W. Provinces) ; Belucbistan, Persia. 



3. LOTONONIS, DC. 



Herbs, rarely shrubs. Leaves digitately 3-foliolate ; stipules connate 

 or free. Flowers in terminal or leaf-opposed racemes or umbels. Calyx- 

 tube narrow, turbinate, the 4 upper teeth more or less connate, the 

 lowest deeper and narrower than the others. Corolla slightly exserted ; 

 standard oblong ; wings shorter and narrower ; keel longer, suddenly in- 

 curved at the tip, its petals firmly united along the back. Stamens uniied 

 in a tube slit along the top ; anthers dimorphous. Ovary sessile or 

 scarcely stalked ; ovules many ; style abruptly incurved at the base ; 

 stigma terminal, often oblique. Pod linear, usually compressed, but in 

 the species below turgid. — Distrib. Chiefly inhabitants of S. Africa; 

 species about 00. 



1. Lotononis Leobordea, Benth. in Lond. Joum. Bot. v. 2 (1843) 

 p. 607. A diffuse much-branched herb ; stems less than 6 in. long, 

 clothed as is the rest of the plant with fulvous silky hairs. Leaves 

 somewhat fleshy ; petioles as long as the leaves. Leaflets subsessile, 

 g-| in. long, obovate or oblanceolate, sometimes mucronate ; stipules 

 ovate-lanceolate, ^ in. long, hairy. Flowers in subsessile clusters of 1-5, 

 in the axils of most of the leaves. Calyx ^-| in. long. Corolla pale 

 yellow or red, scarcely exserted. Pods linear-oblong, turgid, scarcely 

 longer than the calyx, 4-8-8eeded. Fl. B. I. v. 2, p. 64 ; Aitch. Pb. & 

 Sind PI. p. 36; Oliver, Fl. Trop. Afr. v. 2, p. 6 ; Woodr. in Journ. 

 Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1897) p. 420. 



A very rare plant. Sind: cultivated land between the jilains and the Eoliill pass, 

 Stocks, 698!; Sehwan, H'ooc^cou.' !— Distkib. India (Panjab), Arabia, Periiu, Syria, 

 Abyssinia, Egypt, Belucbistan. 



4. HEYLANDIA, DC. 



A prostrate herb. Leaves simple, entire. Flowers small, axillary, 

 solitary. Calyx-tube turbinate, the 2 upper lobes slightly connate, the 

 lower much deeper cleft. Co:olla much exserted; standard large, sub- 

 orbicular; wings ohovate-oblong, much smaller; keel-petals joined along 

 the back, narrowed into an incurved beak. Stamens all united in a tube 

 slit above ; anthers dimorphous. Ovary sessile ; ovules 2 ; style abruptly 

 infiexed above the ovary ; stigma terminal. Pod small, oblong, flat, 

 1-2-seedcd. — Distkib. Endemic in India and Ceylon ; species 1. 



