340 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 
undershrubs or herbs; leaves 3-foliolate, more rarely 1- or 5-foliolate ; 
stipules 2, or much oftener 1, l-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’). 
219. Pleiospora Harv.2— Flowers almost of Lotononis; keel 
oblong straight obtuse. Legume ovate-lanceolate compressed, 
continuous within, 2-valved.—A_ lofty shrub;* 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’). 
220. Listia E. Muzy.'—Flowers of Lotononis ; keelincurved obtuse, 
longer than standard. Legume linear compressed, with transverse 
folds or bends, retracted within marcescent keel and calyx, «-seeded.— 
A. prostrate herb; leaves digitately 3-foliolate; flowers’ in terminal 
racemes; bracts small, bractlets minute or 0. Other parts of 
Lotononis (South Africa’). 
221. Rafnia Tuuns.’—Receptacle 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’) or obliquely 
beaked (@dmannia”), more rarely subfornicate broadly and obliquely 
truncate or emarginate (Pelecynthis"), or fornicate (Caminotropis). 
Stamens 10, l-adelphous ; filaments connate into sheath split longi- 
tudinally above ; anther of 2 kinds (of Ledechkia or Lotononis). Germen 
sessile or stipitate ; ovules 2-; style incurved, at apex minutely 
capitate stigmatiferous. Legume linear or lanceolate, obliquely 
6 Yellow. 
1 Species as many as 60, Jauz. & Spacu, Ill. 
7 Species 1. L. heterophylla E. Mery., loc. 
Plant. Orient., iii. t. 256 (Leobordea).—FENZL, 
in Russ. Reis., t. 4.—E. Mey, loc. cit., 67 
(Telina), 69, 76, 155.—Botss., Voy., t. 52— 
Harv. & Sonp., Fl. Cap., ii. 47.—Baxer, in 
Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr., ii. 5.—Watr., Rep., v. 455. 
2 Thes. Cap., t. 81.—B. H., Gen., 475, n. 41, 
3 With thick foliage and tawny silk, and the 
habit of many Psoralea. 
4 Species 1. P. cajaniflora Harv., loc. cit.— 
Harv. & Sonp., Fl. Cap., ii. 47. 
5 Comm. Pl. Afr. Austr., 80.—ENDL., Gen. 
n. 6491,—B. H., Gen., 476, n, 43. 
cit.—Hary. & Sonp., Fl. Cap., ii. 66. 
5 Fl. Cap., 563.—DC., Prodr., ii. 118.— 
Enpu., Gen., n. 6459.—B. H., Gen., 475, n. 39 
(incl.: @dmannia Tuuns., Pelecynthis E. Mry., 
Vascoa DC.). 
§ DC., Mém. Légum., 186; Prodr., ii. 119. 
10 THUNB., in Act. Holm. (1800), 281, t. 4, 
UE. Mey., Comm. Pl. Afr. Austr, 13.— 
END1t,, Gen., n. 6460. 
