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plicate, narrowly oblong, obtuse to rotundate, auriculateat the base; keel 
similar to the wings, but the limb slightly broader. Ovary hirsute in front, 
the hairs extending to about the middle of the style ; style twice as long 
as the ovary, arcuate, glabrous above and terminated by an oblique 
subcapitate stigma. Harvey, I.e. 56 (in part). Lipozygis involucrata, 
E. Meyer, I.e. Ononis involucrata, Berg, PI. Cap. 213. 
South Africa. Coast Eegion. Malmesbury Div. : Grassy places, 
Groene Kloof, 100 m., Bolus ! Stellenbosch Div. : Stellenbosch, San- 
derson ! At the foot of the Hottentots' Holland Mountains, Bunhury ! 
Sir Lowry's Pass, Schlechter, Herb. Zurich, 23 ! Paarl Div. : Paarl 
Mountain, 300-600 m., Drege ! Klapmuts, Schlechter, Herb. Zurich, 
383 ! Tulbagh Div. : Stony slopes near Steendai Post, Tulbagh, 300 m., 
MacOiuan, Herb. Norm. Aitst.-Afr. 561 ! On the slopes of the Winter- 
hoek Mountain, Lamb ex Hei'-b. Diimmer, 1484 ! Swellendam Div. : On 
sandy parts of the Houw Hoek and Swellendam Mountains, Boiuie I 
Without locality. Lehmann I Scholl I Thorn ! Forbes ! Forbes, 
148 ! Masson I Niuen, 143 ! 
40. L. TENUiFOLiA, Diimmer, comb. nov. 
Habit of the preceding species, but less robust and the indumentum 
much less conspicuous; stem often unbranched. Leaflets — 15 mm. 
long, narrowly cuneate or oblanceolate, rotundate and often mucron- 
ulate, occasionally acutate ; stipules subulate to lanceolate. Umbels 
pedunculate, 3-7-flowered, bracts much less conspicuous than in 
L. involucrata, Benth. ; peduncles 30 mm. long ; flowers often nodding, 
pedicels 2-3 mm. long. Calyx persistent, about 9 mm. long, sparingly 
appressedly pilosulate externally, cleft to the middle, segments narrowly 
deltoid, the lower narrower and slightly longer. Standard about 10 mm. 
high, limb rounded at the base, sparingly appressedly hirsute posticously 
above the middle ; limbs of the wings not conduplicate, truncate at the 
base. Legume turgescent, oblong, 12 mm. long, ochreous, sparingly 
hirsute on the sutures and in front. 
L. involucrata, Bentham, I.e. (in part) ; Harvey, I.e. (in part). Poly- 
lobium tenuifolium, and P. angustifolium ? Ecklon and Zeyher, Enum. 
PI. 182. 
South Africa. Coast Eegion. Malmesbury Div. : Sandy places near 
Darling, Schlechter, Herb. Zurich, 5334 ! Vredenberg, Bachmann, Herb. 
Zurich, 2075 ! Cape Div. : Cape Town, Alexander, 38 ! Forbes I 
Wilms, 3148! Devil's Peak, Burchell, 8498! Vicinity of Cape Town, 
Newlands and Paradise, Burchell, 489 ! Simonsbay, Wright I Wynberg 
Hill, Wolley Dod, 28! Path beyond Miller's Point, Wolley Dod, 2879! 
Roadside near Noah's Ark Battery, Wolley Dod, 1253 ! Muizenberg, 
Scott Flliot,10S6l Table Mountain, 180-240 m., Diimmer, Herb. 154! 
