Lebeckia
(said to be derived from the native name of some of the species). ORD. Leguminosoe. A genus containing about twenty-four species of greenhouse shrubs, all natives of Southern Africa. Flowers yellow, in terminal, often unilateral racemes; bracts and bracteoles small and inconspicuous. Leaves linear-filiform, one to three-foliolate. Branches unarmed, slender, or muchbranched and spinescent, glabrous or silky. Perhaps the only species now in gardens is L. cytisoides. Some of the plants formerly included here are now placed under Aspalathus, &c. For cultivation, see Aspalathus. L. cytisoides (Cytisus-like). fl. bright yellow, large, on spreading longish pedicels. May. l. long-stalked, trifoliolate; leaflets linear-oblong, silky, canescent. h. 2ft. to 4ft. (B. M. 1699, under name of Crotalaria pulchella).