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subulata, ad 4 mm. longa. Calyx 7 mm. longus, 10-12 nervatus, extra 
parce pilosus, supra medio fissus, lobis subulatis inter se subaequalibus. 
Vexillum unguiculatum, spatulatum, in toto 10-12 mm. longum, lamina 
8 mm. longa, 2 '5 mm. lata, acuta, basi leviter truncata, dorso parce sericea, 
mox glaberima ; alae vix curvatae, in toto 10 mm. longae, limbo 3 mm. 
lato obtuso sagittato extra parcissime pubescente ; carina alis similis sed 
paulo longior et angustior. Ovarium complanatum, falcato-oblongum, 
7 mm. longum, stylum valde curvatum aequans, glaberrimum, fuscum. 
South Africa. Natal. At the Umzinyati Kiver, 60-120 m. Wylie, 
Herb. Wood and Keiu 11525 ! 
A highly decorative and distinct species easily recognised by the 
characters cited ; like its congener L. foliosa, Bob, it shows the peculiarity 
of turning black on drying, a peculiarity manifested by only one more of 
this section, viz., L. lanceolata, Benth. 
§ 6. LEOBORDEA. 
59. L. CARiNALis, Harvey, in Harv. and Sonder, El. Cap. II. 60. 
South Africa. Western Region. Little Namaqualand, Wyley, Herb. 
Harvey, Dublin. 
60. L. Steingroeveriana, Diimmer, comb. nov. L. clandestina, Bth., 
var. Steingroeveriana, Schinz, in Abh. Bot. Ver. Brandenburg, XXX. 
(1888), 157. 
South Africa. Kalahari Region. Lower Orange River, Steingroever, 
Herb. Schinz and Keiv, 109 ! 
Differs from the following species in the more caespitose habit, larger 
flowers and calyces, which latter are subinflated and prominently nervate 
at maturity. 
61. L. CLANDESTiNA, Bentham, I.e. 607 ; Harvey, I.e. 61. Capnitis 
clandestina, E. Meyer, I.e. 81. Leobordea clandestina, Steud., Nom. 
ed. II. ii. 23. 
Western Region. Little Namaqualand. Between Holgat River and 
the Orange River, 300-450 m., Drege I 
62. L. Leobordea, Bentham, I.e. 607 ; Harvey, I.e. 61. L. porrecta, 
Bentham, I.e., Harvey, I.e. 60. L. abyssinica, Kotschy in Sitzb. Acad. 
Math.-Nat. h. ii. (1865), 263. L. dichotoma, Boissier, El. Orient, ii. 30. 
L. Leobordea, D^lile in Laborde Voy. Arab. Petr. 86 (1833). L. platycar- 
pus, Viv. PI. Aegypt. Dec. IV. 14. L. persica and L. sphaerocarpa, Boiss. 
El. Orient, ii. 30. Leobordea persica, Jaub and Spach in Ann. Sci. 
Nat. Ser. II. XIX. (1843), 235. L. sphaerosperma, Jaub and Spach, I.e. 235. 
