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section, by their quinquefoliolate leaflets and shortly stipitate legumes, 
but it appears best to follow Harvey's view, as regards their inclusion in 
that section. 
In their habit, the representatives of the § Telina differ markedly from 
those of the preceding section in being diffuse or decumbent perennial 
herbs, with slender peduncled one- or few-flowered inflorescences, the 
species preponderating in the South- West Eegion of the Colony, and 
suddenly reappearing northwards in the Transvaal. The latter group 
comprises five species, two of which bear smaller yellow flowers, and 
subfalcate-torulose legumes. 
The approximation of the remaining species of the § Oxydium to 
§ Polylohium, a section showing slight overlapping to the § Telina is 
considered here, to facilitate comparison of the remaining sections. The 
species are also more or less coastal in their distribution and coincide with 
that of the members of the § Telina, except in extending farther eastwards 
up to Port Elizabeth and Albany, reappearing in Angola and East Central 
Africa. 
§ Lipozygis has a wider diffusion, the group comprising prostrate or 
decumbent herbs, occasionally annuals, with lateral subsessile globose 
flower-heads, occurring in Little Namaqualand to Tulbagh, in the Western 
and South-Western Coastal Eegion of the Colony, while the remaining 
species, exclusively perennial, with terminal hemispheric inflorescences, 
are Eastern and Central in their distribution, preponderating in the 
Griqualand East, Natal and Transvaal Provinces respectively. 
In the minute abaxial tooth of the calyx, the peculiarly curved carina 
and the almost tubular calyx, the four species constituting the section 
Leobordea, depart somewhat from the general type of the genus, and a 
more critical investigation of the group may suggest their separation ; 
their distribution is Coastal and Central, they being entirely absent from 
the Eastern Eegion. 
§ Leptis represents a large and heterogeneous group whose species total 
about forty-five ; their sequence here is not quite in accord with that of 
Harvey, as the disposition and nature of the indumentum of the leaflets 
has been found to be in correlation with their natural diffusion, upon 
which their sequence is therefore based. In this section a small group 
of three species mimicking in habit those of § Krehsia, with quinque- 
foliolate leaves, yellow flowers, and shortly stipitate legumes obtain, 
which are confined to Little Namaqualand, while one occurs in Algeria 
and Spain. The remainder of the section are more ubiquitous, pre- 
ponderating in Cape Colony, and extending via the East Coast to North 
Africa in Morocco. To facilitate the identification of recently described 
species a brief sketch of the sections as proposed by Bentham, but 
slightly modified to suit present exigencies plus a clavis to the individual 
genera, is appended. 
