The specimens on which Z. campylocladus was originally 
based were gathered near Guimar in Tenerife, and differ 
from the form of the species now depicted in the smaller, 
more obovate leaflets and the shorter subappressed indu- 
mentum. The form villosior, here described, was originally 
met with by the late Mr. P. Barker Webb at Fuencaliente 
in the south of Palma, and was identified by him as L. 
arenarius, Brot., though with an indication that he had 
long felt a doubt as to whether the Tenerife and the 
Palma plants should not be treated as varieties of one 
species. Specimens which have since been gathered at 
Guimar and elsewhere in Tenerife have shown how well- 
founded was the doubt thus expressed; it is found that 
these specimens form a connecting series within which it 
is impossible to distinguish even varieties. At the same 
time L. campylocladus is undoubtedly closely allied to L. 
arenarius, within which the form now figured was included 
by Webb; the best distinguishing mark is to be found in 
the more or less cuneate leaflets, retuse or subtruncate at 
the apex, which characterise the former. The form here 
termed villosior is widely distributed both in Tenerife 
and in Palma. In the latter island it was met with by 
Mr. Sprague and Mr. Hutchinson in the Gran Caldera 
in 1913. The plant from which our figure has been 
made was raised at Kew from seeds presented by 
Dr. G. V. Perez of Orotava. It is possible that the 
seed came in the first instance from Tenerife, for it 
appears that Dr. Perez received it under the name 
LL. mascaensis, Burchard, a species known only from 
Tenerife. At Kew the species has been tried out of 
doors but does not give promise of being hardy. When 
grown in a frame it forms a plant about a foot in height, 
compact in habit and pleasing both in its flowers and in 
its silvery foliage. 
Description.—//erb ; root woody, branching from the 
base, with branching ascending stems woody below and 
shortly rather densely clothed with spreading hairs, as 
are the leaves and the calyces; internodes in cultivated 
plants }—1 in. long, in wild specimens up to 2 in. long. 
Leaves petioled, 3-foliolate; leaflets subsessile, cuneate, 
apex retuse or subtruncate, rarely rounded, in cultivated 
