Tas. 8086. 
GENISTA crnzRza. 
Western Mediterranean Region. 
Lecuminoss#. Tribe GENISTER. 
Genista, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 482. 
Genista cinerea, DC. Fl. Frane. vol. iv. p. 494; Reichenb. Ic. Fl. Germ. 
vol. xxii. tab. 41, fig. 1 et 2; G. ramosissime, Poir., affinis, sed indumento 
novellorum et foliorum (subtus) tenuiore adpresso sericeo et pedicellis 
distinctis diversa. 
Frutee 1-3 ped. altus, ramosissimus, ramis virgatis sulcato-striatis gracilibus 
junioribus magis minusve argenteo-sericeis adultis glabratis ob foliorum 
pulvinulos persistentes tuberculatis tandem cortice fusco-cinereo tectis. 
Folia sessilia, unifoliolata, sparsa in macrocladiis, dense congesta quasi 
fasciculata in brachycladiis floriferis, illa lanceolata vel lineari-lanceolata, 
acuta, circiter } poll. longa, } poll. lata, haec (fasciculorum) multo breviora, 
oblonga vel obovato-oblonga, obtusa, omnia facie glabra, dorso magis 
minusve sericea; stipule obscure. Flores plerumque 2, rarius 1 vel ad 4, 
approximati ad brachycladiorum apices, secundum macrocladia quasi in 
racemos longos dispositi, 2-bracteolati; pedicelli 1-1} lin. (in cultis ad 
2 lin.) longi; bracteolz subulatz, minutz. Calyx persistens, circiter 2 lin. 
longus, sericeus, labio supero ad basin in dentes triangulari-lanceolatos fisso 
tubum squante vel paulo superante, labio infero quam supero longiore 
breviter 3-dentato. Corolla aurea, marcescens, fere semipollicaris ; 
vexillum subrotundum, emarginatum, abrupte in unguem contractum, in 
dorso medio parce sericeum vel totum glabrum; alew glabre ; carina obtusa, 
alis paulo longior, sericea. Legwmen lanceolato-oblongum, breviter acute 
acuminatum, 4-3 poll. longum, sericeum vel sericeo-villosum, 2—5-spermum. 
Semina reniformi-ovoidea, spadicea vel fusca, nitida.—Spartiwm cinereum, 
Vill. Prosp. F. Dauph. p. 40. 
Genista cinerea is a characteristic constituent of the bush 
vegetation and the underwood of the forests of the western 
Mediterranean region. In France it has its northern limit 
approximately at 45° N. Lat. In Spainit ascends to 6,000 
feet in the Sierra Nevada. It has been in cultivation for 
a very long time, although it does not seem to have received 
the attention it deserves on account of its copious brilliantly 
yellow flowers. It flowers at Kew in June. 
Descr.—A shrub one to three feet high, with very 
numerous erect slender grooved branches; all the young 
parts more or less silvery-silky; old branches tubercled 
from the persistent leaf-cushions, at length covered with 
greyish-brown bark. Leaves sessile, unifoliolate, scattered 
on the long-shoots, densely fascicled on the short-shoots 
JULY Ist, 1906. 
