Synopsis of the Species of Lotononis and Pleiospora. 
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§ 1. AuLACiNTHUS, Bentham, Hook. London, Jour. Bot. II. (1843), 596. 
Bacemes terminal, prolonged. Legume turgid with a sunken ventral 
suture. 
Eigid shrublets. Leaves trifoliolate ; stipules minute, solitary or absent. 
Aulacinthus, E. Meyer, Comment. PL Afr. Aust. 156 (1835). 
§ 2. Krebsia, Bentham, I.e. 
Floiuers solitary, in pairs or few together, subsessile or shortly 
pedicellate, axillary or terminating short lateral branchlets (rarely terminal 
or racemosely disposed). Legmne compressed, without a sunken ventral 
suture, sessile or shortly stipitate. 
Eigid shrublets, with subsimple ascending rod-like branches (rarely 
divaricately branched), or with a persistent woody rootstock from which 
annual subsimple erect flowering branches develop. Leaves tri- to quin- 
quefoliolate ; stipules solitary or in pairs, foliaceous. Krebsia, Ecklon and 
Zeyher, Enum. PI. 179 (1835). 
§ 3. Telina, Bentham, I.e. 
Floiuers solitary or few, subumbellately terminating elongated 
peduncles. Carina obtuse. Legumes straight or turgid, or compressed 
and falcate-subtorulose. 
Diffuse or decumbent undershrubs or herbs. Leaves trifoliolate ; 
stipules solitary or in pairs, foliaceous. Telina, E. Meyer, I.e. 67. 
§ 4. PoLYLOBiUM, Bentham, I.e. 
Liflorescence pedunculate, umbellate. Carina obtuse or acute. 
Legume straight, compressed or turgescent. 
Diffuse or rarely suberect suffruticose-herbaceous plants. Leaves 
trifoliolate ; stipules solitary or in pairs. Polylobium, Ecklon and Zeyher, 
I.e. 176. 
§ 5. LiPOZYGis, Bentham, I.e. 596. 
Liflorescence subsessile ; flowers disposed in terminal or lateral, hemi- 
spheric or globose heads. 
Diffuse or decumbent herbs (occasionally annual), or with a perennial 
woody roostock sending up subsimple, erect, leafy, annual, flowering 
shoots. Leaves trifoliolate, rarely quinquefoliolate ; stipules solitary or 
none, foliaceous. Lipozygis, E. Meyer, I.e. 76. 
§ 6. Leobordea, Bentham, I.e. 597. 
Flowers solitary, subsessile, opposite the leaves or few together in the 
forks of the stems. Lower calyx-segment much shorter than the remain- 
