Tas. 8578. | 
-CYTISUS PALLIDUS. 
Canary Islands. 
LecuminosaE. Tribe GENISTEAE. 
Cytisus, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 484, 
Cytisus pallidus, Poir. Encycl. Meth. Suppl. vol. ii. p. 442; species a 
C; linifolio, Linn., cui valde affinis, foliolis latioribus facile distinguenda. 
Frutex 1-2-metralis. Ramuli juventute sericei, mox laxius adpresse argenteo- 
pubescentes, cortice viridi obtecti, luri-suleati. Folia trifoliolata, petiolo 
1-3 mm. longo simul ac ramulis pu nte suffulta; stipulae plus minusve 
persistentes, angustae, usque ad 5 mm. longae, sericeae ; foliola oblanceolata, | 
vel angustius oblanceolata, apice breviter acute acuminata, basi in petio- 
lulum breve attenuata, 1-8—4°5 cm. longa, 3-7 mm. lata, chartacea, pagina 
superiore laxius adpresse pubescentia, viridia, inferiore sericea, costa supra 
leviter immersa subtus prominula, nervis lateralibus haud conspicuis, 
margine saepe parum recurvo. Flores in racemum terminalem laxe 
capituliformem plerumque circiter 10-florum dispositi; bracteae deciduae ; 
edicelli vix 5 mm. longi, sericei; bracteolae angustae, circiter 8 mm. 
ongae. Calycis extra sericei tubus 2 mm. longus; lobi duo supremi 
55 mm. longi, 2 mm. lati, tres infimi in unum tridentatum connati. 
Vewillum elliptico-ovatum, apice emarginatum, 14°5 mm. longum, 10 mm. 
latum, extra ad nervos adpresse albo-pubescens, ungui 2°5 mm. longo ; 
alae vix 12 mm. longae, 4°5 mm. latae, ungui 2°5 mm. longo; carina 
11°5 mm. longa, 8°5 mm. lata, extra sericea, ungui 2°5 mm. longo, 
auricula 1°25 mm. longa. Antherae difformes, longiores 1°5 mm., 
breviores 1 mm. longae. Ovariwm 4 mm. altum, sericeum, stylo superne 
glabro stigmate minuto.—C. linifolius, Lamk., var. pallidus, Briquet 
Cytises Alpes Marit., p. 140. Teline linifolia, Webb et Berth., var. 
latifolia, Webb et Berth. Phyt. Canar. vol. ii. p. 42. Genista splendens, 
Webb et Berth. l.c. p. 42, t. 43.—W. G. Crats. 
The shrub here figured is one that has been raised 
from seed presented to Kew in 1912 by Dr. G. V. Perez 
of Puerto Orotava, Teneriffe, under the name Genista 
splendens, which is that given to it by Messrs. Webb and 
Berthelot on the plate on which it is depicted in their 
work on the Canaries. In the text of their work, how- 
ever, it is referred by these authors to the genus Teline 
and treated as a variety of what is now once more 
regarded as Cytisus linifolius, Lamk. More recently 
Professor Briquet has returned to the same view and 
there is no question that C. linifolius is the nearest ally 
of C. pallidus, while there is little doubt that Mr. Craib is 
OctosER, 1914. 
