Tan. 6733. 
LOTUS PELIORHYNCHUS. 
Native of Teneriffe. 
Nat. Ord. Leguminosz.—Tribe Lorex. 
Genus Lotus, Linn. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. i. p. 490.) 
Lorus peliorhynchus ; fruticulus cano-sericeus, ramosissimus, ramis gracilibus 
decurvis, ramuks filiformibus, foliis sessilibus, foliclis filiformibus, floribus 
axillaribus solitariis binisve breviter pedicellatis, calycis sericei curvi ad medium 
oN §-fidi lobis lanceolatis acuminatis falcatis sinubus acutis, corolla coccinew vexillo 
a corniforme abrupte uncinatim recurvo, alis longioribus dimidiato-lanceolatis 
subacutis, carina alis longiore longe rostrato incurvo. 
Heinekenta peliorhynclia, Webb MSS. in Bourg. Plant. Canariens, n. 805 ; et 
in Bourgeau Plant. itin. secund. n. 1319 (Heinchenia). 
Peprosia Berthelotii, Lowe USS. 
The Canary Islands are remarkable for the number and 
_ variety of the endemic species of Lotus which they contain, 
r and of these none is to compare with the subject of the 
present plate for singularity or beauty. It is also an ex- 
—ceedingly rare plant. Accompanying a specimen given by 
M. Berthelot (the companion of Webb in his exploration of 
the Canaries, and joint author of the History of the Islands) 
_ to the Baron de Pavia, and now in the Herbarium at Kew 
_ (formerly in that of the Rev. R. T. Lowe), I find the 
following memorandum in French :—*‘ This curious species, 
commonly called Pico de Paloma (Pigeon’s beak), grows 
_ exclusively in Teneriffe, in the great ravine of Tamadava, 
on the most precipitous rocks. My lamented friend P. B. 
Webb recommended me earnestly to search for this plant, 
of which we had been shown a very small specimen in 
1828, At last I have procured a specimen, but too late for 
my friend to receive it! it is this that [ offer to my worthy 
- friend Castallo de Pavia.” ‘To this specimen Mr. Lowe 
_ had attached the name “ Pedrosia Berthelotii, Lowe (Hein- 
 chenia peliorhyncha, Webb MSS.),” a name by which it 
- geems to be known in Teneriffe, but which I nowhere find 
: JaNUARY Ist, 1884, 
