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standard or subequal. Stamens of Lebeckia. Germen stipitate ; 

 ovules 2 or few ; style incurved glabrous ; stigma terminal. Legume 

 stipitate, unequally ovate or oblong; placentary suture (or both) 

 unequally winged ; faces rugose, striate, or with wing-like crests. — 

 Shrubs, with aspect and 3-foliolate leaves of Lebeckia ; flowers 1 in 

 terminal, often 1 -lateral racemes ; bracts and bractlets small or 

 (South Africa"). 



217. Rothia Pers. 3 — Calyx gamosepalous narrow; lobes 5 sub- 

 equal, or 2 superior a little broader. Corolla short ; standard ovate 

 oblong ; wings narrow ; petals of keel nearly free, resembling wings. 

 Stamens 10, 1-adelphous ; filaments connate into a sheath split 

 above ; anthers uniform. Germen sessile ; ovules oo ; style incurved 

 finally straight, apex capitate stigmatiferous. Legume linear or 

 linear-lanceolate, thin acute, continuous within, dehiscing as a 

 follicle at vexillary suture. Seeds reniform ; aril rudimentary. — 

 Diffuse annual herbs ; leaves digitately 3-foliolate, stipules 2, lateral 

 free ; flowers small, leaf-opposed, solitary or 2-4 on a pedicel ; bracts 

 and bractlets setaceous (India, tropical Africa 1 ). 



218. Lotononis DC. 5 — Calyx gamosepalous high up; lobes un- 

 equal ; 4 superior rarely free, usually connate or coherent in pairs, 

 lowest free often narrower. Standard suborbicular, ovate or oblong ; 

 wings oblique ; keel incurved obtuse or more rarely acute. Stamens 

 10, 1-adelphous ; filaments connate into a sheath split above ; anthers 

 5 shorter versatile, 5 longer subbasifixed. Germen sessile or sub- 

 sessile ; ovules go ; style incurved ; stigma subterminal, usually 

 oblique. Legume more or less elongated, subcompressed or terete 

 turgid, continuous within, 2-valved. Seeds exarillate. — Shrubs, 



1 Yellow. 4 Species 2. Wight & Arn., Prodr., 195. — 



2 Species 7. DC, Mem. Legum., t. 57, fig. Baker, in Oliv. Fl. Prop. Aft:, ii. 7. 



2.— E. Met., Comm. PI. Afr. Austr., 28.— 5 Mem. Legum., 223 ; Prodr., ii. 166 (Ono- 



Deless., Icon. Sel., iii. 38, t. 64. — Walp., in nidis sect.). — Endl., Gen., n. 6487. — Eckl. & 



Linncea, xiii. 476. — Harv. & Sond., Fl. Cap., ii. Zeyh., Emm., 176. — B. H., Gen., 476, n. 42. — 



90. Leobordea Del., Fragm. Fl. Arab., 23, tig. 1. — 



3 Syn„ ii. 638 (nee Schreb.). — DC, Prodr., Endl., Gen., n. 6489. — Leptis Eckl. & Zeyh., 

 ii. 382. — Endl., Gen., n. 6475. — B. H., Gen., op. cit., VIA-. — Endl., Gen., n. 6486. — Krebsia 

 477, n. 44. — Westonia Spreng., Syst., iii. 230. — Eckl. & Zeyh., op. cit., 179. — Endl., Gm., n. 

 Dillwynia Both., Catalect., iii. 71 (nee Sm.). — 6490. — Polylob'wm Eckl. & Zeyh., op. cit., 180. 

 Harpelema Jacq. F., Eclog., ii. t. 129 ined. (ex — Endl., Gen., n. 6488. — Lipozygis E. MET., 

 Endl.). — Gcetzea Reichb., Consp., n. 3928.— Comm. PI. Afr. Austr., IB. — Capnitis E. Met., 

 Xerocarpus Guild. & Terr., Flor. Seneg.Tent., loc. cit., 81. — Aulacintkus E. Met., /<><". cit., 

 i. 169, t. 44. 155. — ? Amphinomia DC, Prodr., ii. 522. 



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