Tas. 8693. 
CYTISUS asus. 
Spain and Portugal. 
Leauminosak. Tribe GENISTEAE. 
Cytisus, Linn; Benth, et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 484. 
Cytisus albus, Link, Enum. Hort. Berol. vol. ii. p. 241; DC. Prodr. vol. ii. 
p. 153; Loud. Arboret. pars iii. p. 589, fig. 282; Spach in Ann, Sc. Nat. 
Bme sér. vol. iii. p. 152; G. Don, Gen. Syst. vol. iii. p. 154; Willk. et 
Lange, Prodr. Fl. Hisp. vol. iii. p. 457 ; C. Schneider, Handb. Laubholzk. 
vol. ii. pS: Bean, Trees & Shrubs, vol. i. p. 457: nec C. albus, Haquet, 
stirps baleanica melius monente Briquet pro subspecie C. supini, Linn., 
habenda ; species C. purganti, Benth., et C. acutangulo, Jaub. et Spach, 
affinis, ab illo floribus albis nee luteis, ab hoe foliolis pro ratione angustis, 
ab utroque habitu graciliore, ramis elongatis foliis inferioribus 3-foliolatis 
nec omnibus 1-foliolatis differt. 
Frutex erectus ad 2 m. altus, admodum ramosus ramis multicostatis primo 
argenteo-sericeis mox glabrescentibus. Folia inferiora 8-foliolata, petiolo 
6-8 mm. longo suffulta, superiora 1-foliolata, petiolata vel subsessilia ; 
foliola lineari-lanceolata vel anguste oblonga, in planta culta ad 12 mm. 
longa, 4 mm. lata, in spontanea minora et pro ratione angustiora, 
argenteo-sericea ; stipulae 0. lores copiosissime secundum ramos virgatos 
dispositi, solitarii vel 2-3-ni ex axillis foliorum ; pedicelli graciles, 4-5 mm. 
longi. Calyx persistens, breviter campanulatus, parce pilosiusculus, 
labiis aequilongis brevibus denticulatis. Corolla alba vel in prole quadam 
culta roseo-tincta, petalis aequilongis ad 1 em. longis. Legwmen sub- 
oblique lineari-oblongum, 2°5-3°5 cm. longum, 6-8 mm. latum, adpresse 
sericeo-hirsutum.—C. multiflorus, Sweet, Hort. Brit. ed. 1, p. 112; 
Briquet, Etud. Cytis. p. 154; Aschers. & Graebn. Syn. Mitteleurop. Fl. 
vol. vi. Abteil. ii. p. 800. C. lwsitanicus, Quer apud Willk. Prodr. Fl. 
Hisp. Suppl. p. 256; Lazaro, Compend. Fl. Esp. vol. ii. p. 227; Coutinho, 
Fl. Portug. p. 427. Genista alba, Lamk, Encyc. Meth. vol. ii. p. 622. 
G. multiflora, Nouv. Duham. vol. ii. p. 76, t. 238. Spartium multiflorum, 
Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 1, vol. iii. p.21; Willd. Sp. Pl. vol. iii. p. 930 et Enum. 
Hort. Berol. vol. ii. p. 744; Ait. fil. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, vol. iv. p. 256. 
S. multiflorum incarnatwm, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1052, S. dispermum, 
Moench, Meth. p. 180; Willk. in Ust. Mag. vol. iv. pars xi. p. 35, t. 2. 
S. album, Desf. Fl. Atlant. vol. ii. p. 182. Spartothamnus albus, Presl, 
Bot. Bemerk. p. 138. Sarothamnus parviflorus, Willk. et Cut. ex Willk. 
in Linnaea, vol. xxx. p. 95. Spartocytisus albus, C. Koch, Dendrol. vol. i. 
p. 31.—O. Srapr. 
The Portugal White Broom, here figured, a native of 
northern and central Spain and Portugal, has had a 
somewhat chequered cultural history. Whether it be, 
as Lamarck and others have thought, the Genista alba 
aRy, 1917, ee te Fo re 
