Leaves scattered, flat. Petals yellow. Fruit linear or lanceolate, more or less flattened. 168 168. Plant hairy. Leaves stalked.--Species 90. =Lotononis= DC. Plant glabrous.--Species 30. South Africa. Some are used medicinally. =Rafnia= Thunb. 169. Leaves more or less distinctly stalked, narrow, usually thread-shaped. Flowers in racemes, yellow. Fruit linear. Funicle very short.--Species 25. South Africa. =Lebeckia= Thunb. Leaves sessile. 170 170. Leaves many-nerved, flat, stiff. Calyx 5-cleft, with pungent segments. Corolla yellow; standard villous. Fruit linear or lanceolate, slightly flattened.--Species 15. South Africa. =Borbonia= L. Leaves one-or few-nerved, usually thread-shaped and in tufts. Fruit obliquely-ovate or-lanceolate. Funicle filiform. (See 167.) =Aspalathus= L. 171. (163.) Calyx 2-lipped, the upper lip 2-toothed or 2-parted, the lower 3-toothed or 3-parted. Corolla yellow. Fruit linear. 172 Calyx not 2-lipped, all segments subequal or the 4 upper ones united in pairs. 174 172. Keel longer than the standard and the wings. Calyx deeply two-lipped. Fruit flat, somewhat constricted and with thin partitions between the seeds, not glandular. Undershrubs. Leaves exstipulate. Flowers solitary. Bracteoles small.--Species 4. South Africa. =Dichilus= DC. Keel shorter than the standard. Leaves stipulate. 173 173. Fruit glandular-hairy or viscid, flat, usually constricted between the seeds. Calyx tubular, usually shortly two-lipped. Shrubs or undershrubs. Flowers in spikes or racemes. Bracteoles mostly leaf-like.--Species 12. South Africa. =Melolobium= Eckl. & Zeyh. Fruit hairy, but not glandular. Calyx deeply two-lipped. Standard suborbicular. Bracteoles usually small.--Species 60. (_Tephrothamnus_ Sweet, including _Macrolotus_ Harms) =Argyrolobium= Eckl. & Zeyh. 174. Calyx-lobes distinctly unequal, the upper 4 united in pairs, the lowest separate and narrow. 175 Calyx-lobes about equal. 177 175. Keel and style straight. Standard spatulate. Bracteoles bristle-like.--Species 3. South Africa. (_Pleiospora_ Harv.) =Phaenohoffmannia= O. Ktze. Keel and style curved inwards. Bracteoles none. 176 176. Fruit flattened, repeatedly folded and twisted from side to side. Corolla yellow; keel exceeding the standard. Stigma oblique. Herbs. Flowers in racemes.--Species 1. South Africa (Cape Colony). =Listia= E. Mey. Fruit slightly flattened or turgid, straight or curved. (See 168.) =Lotononis= L. 177. Fruit winged, flat, ovate or oblong, stalked, indehiscent. Petals long-clawed, yellow; keel exceeding the standard. Ovary stalked. Ovules few. Shrubs. Flowers in racemes.--Species 7. South Africa. (_Viborgia_ Thunb.) =Wiborgia= Thunb. Fruit not winged. Ovules usually numerous. 178 178. Fruit ovate, 1-3-seeded. Corolla white, yellowish, or red; standard with a long claw, clothed with long hairs. Shrubs. Flowers in spikes or heads, without bracteoles.--Species 10. South Africa. =Buchenroedera= Eckl. & Zeyh.