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many-nerved, sessile or amplcxicaul, exstipulate. Flowers yellow, axillary 

 or terminal, scattered or racemose.— 13 species, chiefly Western and South- 

 Western. 



10. RAFNIA, Thunb. 



Calyx unequally 5 -fid, the lowest segment narrowest. Co- 

 rolla glabrous; standard roundish; keel incurved, either sharply 

 beaked or obliquely truncate. Stamens 10, mouadelphous. 

 Ovary sessile or stipitate, many-ovuled ; stigma capitate. 

 Legume lanceolate or linear, the upper suture sharp or some- 

 what winged. — Fl. Cop. ii. 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 Gap. ii. 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 falcate-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. — Fl. Cci]). ii. 

 i?. 39. 



A large genus of both hemispheres, mostly tropical. Leaves either 

 simple or palmately 3-5-7-folioled, with or without stipules. Flowers ra- 

 cemose 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, tapermg into a subulate, straight style ; 

 ovules numerous ; stigma simple. Legume? — Fl. Cap. ii. 

 2). 47. 



P. cajanifolia, IL, the only species, is a shrub, wuth 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. 



