Ml. LOWE, ON MADERAX BOTANY. 545 



Madefj.^' "^''*"' '"'^^'''''- '"'" ''"'''' ''^'^''^' g--'"i"««aque montana 



Constantly distinct, and easily distinguished by its large and 



handson^e flowers, delicate sn^ooth foliage, fine narrow leaflel. and 



much coarser habit in Madera. Neither is it to be confounded with 

 f. ang^sHJolia "Roth, and WiUd." (V. sativa (i. Sm. in E. Fl ) • nor 

 aga,n ..th V. Bohartii Forst. (K angustifoUa Sm. in E. Fl. n on Roth, 

 et U.lld.) It differs from the former in the much r.arrower leaflets 

 of the upper and inversely heart-shaped ones of the lower leaves- 

 but more strikingly, in the much larger and conspicuous bright rich 

 purple (approaching to crimson) flowers. In both these points it comes 

 much nearer V. Bobartu: but still the flowers are larger; and those 

 only winch open first, at the beginning of the season, are solitary : 

 later they are two or three, and even sometimes quite the upper.nost 

 are four together: the leaflets are more numerous and smoother; and 

 the whole plant is larger, with the stems from one or two to three feet 

 long. 



47. Vicin capreolata, nob. 



. ^/"bpubescens, ramis gracilihus. elongatis, filiformibus: foliis cir- 

 rosis; fohohs 5-11; lineari-olongis, ranotis: stipulis parvis, lineari- 

 oblongis, angustis, semi-sagittatis, simphcibusve, acuminatis vel apice 

 bifidis, coloratis, marcescentibus : pedunculis submultifloris ; floriferis folio 

 a.quant,bus; fructiferis duplo longioribus : calyce puberulo f; dentibus 

 duobus superioribus inter se arcuato-incurvis ; tribus inferioribus longi- 

 onbus, acumniatis: floribus secundis, subdenis: leguminibus oblonjs, 

 subfalcatis, glaberimis, obsolete reticulatis, 4-5-spermis: seminibus 3-4 

 subtetrahedns, oblongis, subcompressis, glabris, nigrescentibus ; funiculo' 

 magno hiloque longo. 



Hab in rupibus umbrosis convallium Mader*. Florentem primus 

 detexit. cl. Car. Lemann, M. D. 



Flores eorum V. Cracca^ L. fere magnitudine, ochroleuci Videtu, 

 r. ochroleuca Ten. affinis. An V. parviflora Cav., Brouss ? 

 48. Bisenu/a Pelecinus E. 

 a. /mbescem — B. Pelecinus L. D. C. Prodr. ii. 307. 



