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oblanceolate or obovate, blunt with a mucro, 6-9 lines long, glaucous, 
finely grey-silky, slightly fleshy. Flowers usually solitary, rarely ge- 
minate, on axillary peduncles 6-12 lines long. Bracts oblanceolate, 
usually solitary. Calyx 8-4 lines long, finely silky, the subequal 
linear-setaceous teeth reaching three-quarters of the way down. Corolla 
light rose-red, equalling the calyx. Pod linear, 9-12 lines long’, 3 in. 
thick, glabrous, brown, not torulose, 12—15-seeded. 
sity Guinea. Benguela; damp sandy ground by the river Bero, Dr, Wel- 
witsch ! 
6. L. corniculatus, Linn. ; DC. Prod. ii, 214. Stem 6-18 in. long, 
diffusely branched, glabrous or thinly silky. Leaflets subsessile, obo- 
vate-cuneate, 6—9 lines long, glabrous. Flowers 4—9, in an umbel on 
a peduncle 1-2 in. long, with a compound bract. Pedicels a line long. 
Calyx } in. long, glabrous or slightly silky, the teeth lanceolate- 
cuspidate, reaching more than halfway down. Corolla yellow, twice 
as long as the calyx. Pod 3-1 in. long, 1 line broad, straight. A. 
Rich. FI. Abyss. i. 176. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! Quartin-Dillon and Petit! 
This is the common form, which is diffused throughout Kurope, and reaches Japan 
and Australia. We have specimens gathered by Dr. Quartin-Dillon, like the Spanish 
var. glacialis of Boissier with silky stems 6 in. long, much smaller leaflets and flowers ; 
the latter 1-3 together, with 1 or 2 very small sessile bracts. 
7. L. creticus, Linn.; DC. Prod.ii. 211. A diffuse copiously-branched 
perennial 1—2 ft. high, sometimes sutfruticose, the branches densely grey- 
silky. Leaflets 5, rather fleshy, oblanceolate-cuneate, 4—6 lines long, 
both sides densely erey-silky. Flowers in umbels of 4—8 on axillary 
peduncles 9-18 lines long. Pedicels very short. Bracts compound, 
equalling or shorter than the calyx. Calyx 4 lines long, densely 
grey-silky, the linear teeth equal to the tube. Corolla yellow, twice 
the calyx. Pod linear, 12-18 lines long, turgid, glabrous, 9—15-seeded. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia (teste Schweinfurth). 
A common Mediterranean species. 
8. L. glinoides, Delile in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 2, vii. 286. Stems her- 
baceous, a foot or more long, thinly grey-silky. Leaflets 5, obovate- 
cuneate, 4—5 lines long, rather Heniy: glaucous, thinly grey-silky. 
lowers solitary or in pairs on short pedicels in the axils of the leaves, 
or in clusters of 3—4 as if terminal on short om! branches. Bracts 
trifoliolate. Calyx 4 lines long, densely silky, the linear teeth reaching 
three-quarters of the way down. Corolla reddish, scarcely exceeding 
the calyx. Pod linear, glabrous, 8-9 lines long, slightly torulose, 
8-10-seeded.—Walp. Rep. i. 647. 
Nile Land. Nubia, Kotschy! Abyssinia (teste Schweinfurth). 
9. L. Gareini, DC. Prod. ii. 212. Suffruticose, stems 6-12 in. 
long, twiggy and diffusely branched, clothed with adpressed grey 
pubescence. Leaves scattered, digitately trifoliolate. Leatlets obovate- 
cuneate, entire, 1-3 lines long by half as broad, tomentose. Flowers 
