340 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



undershrubs or herbs ; leaves 3-foliolate, more rarely 1- or 5-foliolate ; 

 stipules 2, or much oftener 1, 1 -lateral, more rarely 0; flower 

 terminal, leaf opposed, or more rarely beside the leaves, solitary 

 racemose, or subumbellate {South and North Africa, Mediterranean, 

 Europe and Asia 1 ). 



219. Pleiospora Harv. 2 — Flowers almost of Lotononis ; keel 

 oblong straight obtuse. Legume ovate-lanceolate compressed, 

 continuous within, 2-valved. — A lofty shrub; 3 leaves digitately 3- 

 foliolate ; stipules 2, free ; flowers in short capituliform spikes, 

 terminal or (on short almost leafless floriferous twigs) axillary ; 

 bracts and bractlets narrow subulate (South Africa 4 ). 



220. Listia E. Met. 5 — Flowers of Lotononis ; keel incurved obtuse, 

 longer than standard. Legume linear compressed, with transverse 

 folds or bends, retracted within marcescent keel and calyx, oc -seeded. — 

 A prostrate herb ; leaves digitately 3-foliolate ; flowers 6 in terminal 

 racemes ; bracts small, bractlets minute or 0. Other parts of 

 Lotononis (South Africa 1 ). 



221. Rafnia Thunb. 8 — Eeceptacle unequally cupuliform lined by 

 a disk rather thick above. Calyx often sub- 2 -labiate, lobes unequal, 

 lowest usually smaller, standard suborbicular glabrous thick-ungui- 

 culate; wings falcate; keel incurved beaked (Vascoa 9 ) or obliquely 

 beaked ((Edmannia 10 ), more rarely subfornicate broadly and obliquely 

 truncate or emarginate (P elect/ nt his 11 ), or fornicate (Caminotropis). 

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

 tudinally above ; anther of 2 kinds (of Lebeckia or Lotononis). Germ en 

 sessile or stipitate ; ovules 2- oc ; style incurved, at apex minutely 

 capitate stigmatiferous. Legume linear or lanceolate, obliquely 



1 Species as many as 60. Jaub. & Spacu, III. 6 Yellow. 



Plant. Orient., iii. t. 256 (Leobordea). — Fenzl, 7 Species 1. L. heterophylla E. Met., loc. 



in Puss. Reis., t. 4.— E. Met, loc. cit., 67 cit.— Haev. & Sond., Fl. Cap., ii. 66. 



(Telina), 69, 76, 155.— Boiss., Toy., t. 52.— s Fl. Cap., 563.— DC, Prodr., ii. 118.— 



Harv. & Sond., Fl. Cap., ii. 47.— Bakes, in Endl., Gen,, n. 6459.— B. H., Gen., 475, n. 39 



Olio. Fl. Trop. Afr., ii. 5.— Walp., Rep., v. 455. (incl. : (Edmannia Thunb., Pelecynthis E. Met., 



2 Thes. Cap., t. 81.— B. H., Gen., 475, n. 41. Vascoa DC). 



3 With thick foliage and tawny silk, and the 9 DC, Mem. Legum,, 186 ; Prodr., ii. 119. 

 hahit of many Psoralece. )o Thunb., in Act. Holm. (1800), 281, t. 4. 



4 Species 1. P. cajanifiora Habv., loc. cit. — » E. Met., Comm. PI. Afr. Austr., 13. — 

 Haev. & Sond., Fl. Cap., ii. 47. Endl., Gen., n. 6160. 



5 Comm. PI. Afr. Austr., 80.— Endl., Gen. 

 n. 6491.— B. H., Gen., 476, n. 43. 



