LEGUMINOSH-PAPILIONACEZ. 339 
standard or subequal. Stamens of Lebeckia. Germen stipitate ; 
ovules 2 or few; style incurved glabrous; stigma terminal. Legumé 
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 Zedeckia; flowers’ in 
terminal, often 1-lateral racemes; bracts and bractlets small or 0 
(South Africa’). 
217. Rothia Purs.'— 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, |-adelphous; filaments connate into a sheath split 
above ; anthers uniform. Germen sessile; ovules ©; 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’). 
218. Lotononis DC.’°—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 o; 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. Wieur & Arn., Prodr., 195.— 
2 Species 7. DC., Mém. Légum., t. 57, fig. 
Baker, in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr., ii. 7. 
2.—E. Mry., Comm. Pl. Afr. Austr., 28.— 
Devess., Icon. Sel., iii. 38, t. 64.—Wap., in 
Linnaa, xiii. 476.—Harv. & Sonp., Fl. Cap., ii. 
90. 
3 Syn., ii. 638 (nec ScHREB.).—DC., Prodr., 
ii, 882.—Enpu., Gen., n. 6475.—B. H., Gen., 
477, n. 44.— Westonia Sprena,, Syst., iii, 230.— 
Dillwynia Roru., Catalect., iii. '71 (nec SM.).— 
Harpelema Jacq. ¥., Eclog., ii. t. 129 ined. (ex 
END1.).—Gatzea REICHB., Consp., n. 83928.— 
Xerocarpus GuitL, & PERR., Flor. Seneg. Tent., 
i. 169, t. 44, 
5 Mém. Légum., 223; Prodr., ii. 166 (Ono- 
nidis sect.).—ENDL., Gen., n. 6487.—Eck1, & 
ZEYH., Enum., 176.—B. H., Gen., 476, n, 42.— 
Leobordea Det, Fragm. Fl. Arab., 28, fig. 1.— 
ENDL., Gen., n. 6489.—Leptis Ecxr. & ZEye., 
op. cit., 174.—ENDL., Gen., n. 6486.—Krebsia 
Ecxu. & ZEYH., op. cit., 179.—EnpL., Gen., n. 
6490.—Polylobium Ect. & ZuvHu., op. cit., 180. 
—Eyp., Gen. n. 6488.—Lipozygis E. Mxy., 
Comm. Pl. Afr. Austr., 76.—Capnitis E. Mry., 
loc. cit., 81.—Aulacinthus E. Mzy., loc, cit., 
155.— ? Amphinomia DC., Prodr., ii. 522. 
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