Synopsis of the Species of Lotononis and Pleiospora. 
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South Africa. Eastern Eegion. Pondoland. Bachmcmn, Herb. Zilrich 
and Keio, 578! 
Distinguished from L. dehilis, Bth., by its less branched glabrous habit, 
obovate-lanceolate leaflets and totally glabrous corollas. 
36. L. FALLENS, Bentham, I.e. 605. Harvey, I.e. 56. Polylohium 
pallens, Ecklon and Zeyher, Enum. PL 182. 
South Africa. Coast Eegion. Clanwilliam Div. : Mountain-sides near 
Brak Fontein, Ecklon and Zeyher, 1294. This species is not included in 
the collections examined by me. 
37. L. ANGOLENSis, Welwitsch ex Baker in Oliv. El. Trop. Afr. ii. 6. 
Argyrolohium deflexiflorum, Baker in Kew Bulletin (1897), 253. 
Tropical West Africa. Angola. Huilla and Pungo Andongo, 720- 
1650 m., Welwitsch, 1895 and 1896 ! Mossamedes, Neioion, 97 ! North- 
West Ehodesia ; on mica schist near Pemba, 1050 m., Rogers, 8558 ! 
M.dk.o\\, Bogers, 8285 ! Between Goudkopje and Katzele, 1250 m. Bawn, 
Herb. Zurich, 199 ! 
Tropical East Africa. Tanganyika Plateau, Fort Hill, 1050-1200 m., 
Whyte ! 
38. L. Bainesii, Baker, I.e. 
Tropical South-West Africa ; lat. 23°. Chapman and Baines ! 
German South-West Africa, Hereroland, Dinter, 473 ! 
This species is very closely allied to the preceding, and more material 
may hereafter suggest its approximation to it. 
39. L. INVOLUCRATA, Bentham, l.c. 602 (in part). 
A diffuse or decumbent plant, densely covered all over, excepting the 
upper surfaces of the leaflets and the corolla, with long spreading foxy 
hairs ; shoots up to 35 cm. ft. long, angular, distichously branched (very 
rarely simple), the lateral branchlets rarely exceeding 15 cm. in length, 
densely leafy. Leaves trifoliolate ; petiole up to 10 mm. long, flattened ; 
leaflets linear to lanceolate, subacute, the lateral slightly falcate and up to 
14 mm. long ; terminal invariably straight and slightly larger, subcori- 
aceous ; stipules geminate, spreading, leaf-like but more acute. Umbels 
indistinctly pedunculate, subglobose, 5-10-flowered, subtended by a 
whorl of conspicuous and leafy ovate-lanceolate, often cuspidate bracts ; 
flowers shortly pedicellate. Calyx about 10 mm. long, densely covered 
externally with long foxy hairs and cleft below the middle ; segments 
subulate. Standard clawed, 12 mm. high ; limb broadly triangular, obtuse, 
almost truncate at the base, glabrous except for a longitudinal line of 
hairs posticously ; wings 12 mm. long, entirely glabrous ; limbs condu- 
