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NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



rarely somewhat fleshy ; leaves simple or digitately 3-foliolate ; 

 leaflets sessile exstipellate on short or much reduced thick pul- 

 vinate or tuberculate petiole ; flowers 1 in short or elongated terminal 

 spikes, or more rarely solitary axillary or lateral ; bracts and bractlets 

 usually leaf-like {South Africa 2 ). 



214. Buchenrcedera Eckl. & Zeyh. 3 — Flowers almost of As- 

 palathus; catyx gibbous behind; teeth short subequal. Legume a 

 little longer than calyx, ovate obliquely acute, somewhat turgid. 

 Seeds 1-3, exarillate. — Silky or villous herbs ; leaves digitately 3- 

 foliolate, petiolate ; stipules foliaceous ; flowers 4 in elongated or 

 capituliform terminal spikes; bracts foliaceous {South Africa'). 



215. Lebeckia Thunb, 6 — Flowers almost of Aspalathus; calyx 

 oblique, with subequal teeth or short lobes. Keel acute or subros- 

 trate and nearly equal to standard {Eulebeckia 1 ) or longer (Stiza 9 ), 

 sometimes acute or subrostrate {Sarcqphyllum 9 ) often scarcely longer 

 than wings (Viborgioides 10 ), sometimes obtuse, longer than wings, and 

 equal to or longer than standard {Calobota 11 ). Stamens and pistil of 

 Aspalathus. Legume linear flat {Stiza, Sarcqphyllum), narrow terete 

 (Eulebeckia), or terete or turgid (Viborgioides, Calobota), cc -seeded, 

 2-valved. — Shrubs or undershrubs ; branches virgate or spinescent ; 

 glabrous or silky ; leaves simple or digitately 1-3-foliolate ; stipules 

 small or ; flowers 12 in terminal, often unilateral racemes ; bracts and 

 bractlets small or 13 [South Africa}*). 



216. Viborgia Thunb. 15 — Flowers of Lebeckia ; keel longer than 



1 White, yellow, red, or blue. 



2 Species about 150. Benth., in Hook. 

 Journ., vii. 583. — Hart. & Sond., FL Cap., ii. 

 94.— Bot. Mag., t. 344, 829, 1289, 2225, 2233, 

 2329.— Walp., Sep., i. 609 ; ii. 837 ; Ann., i. 

 207 ; ii. 320. 



3 Fnum. PL Afr. Austr., 194.— B. H., Gen., 

 478, n. 48. — Colohotus E. Met., Comm. PL Afr. 

 Austr., 156.— Ekdl., Gen., n. 6481. 



4 White or purplish. 



5 Species about 8. Haev. & Sond., Fl. Cap., 

 ii. 92. 



« Prodr. Fl. Cap., 2; Fl. Cap., 561.— DC, 

 Prodr., ii. 136.— Endl., Gen., n. 6478.— B. H., 

 Gen., 477, n. 45. — Acanthobotrya Eckl. & 

 Zeyh., Fnuni., 192. 



7 Benth., loc. cit., sect. 3. 



8 E. Met., Comm. PI. Afr. Austr., 31.— 

 Walp., in Lmncea, xiii. 476. 



9 E. Met., Comm. PL Afr. Austr., 32 (nee 

 Thfnb.). — Sect. Phyllodiastrum Benth. 



10 Benth., loc. cit., sect. 5. 



11 Eckl. & Zeth., op. cit., 191. 



12 Yellow. 



13 Bentham divides this genus into 5 sections : 

 viz. : 1. Stiza, 2. Phyllodiastrum, 3. Fulebeckia, 

 4. Calobota, 5. T^iborgioides. 



14 Species about 24. Jacq., Hort. Schaenbr., 

 t. 919 (Crotalaria).—kl(X)'R., Bot. Repos., t. 

 417. — Bot. Mag., t. 1699. — Haev. & Sond., Fl. 

 Cap., ii. 83. 



13 Fl. Cap., 560 (Wiborgia).— DC, Prodr., 

 ii. 135.— Endl., Gcv., n. 6479.— B. H., Gen., 

 477, n. 46. 



