Lotus.} XLVII. § PAPILIONACEJE (BAKER). 63 



oblanceolate or obovate, blunt with a mucro, 6-9 lines long, glaucous, 

 finely grey-silky, slightly fleshy. Flowers usually solitary, rarely ge- 

 minate, on axillary peduncles 6-12 lines long. Bracts oblanceolate, 

 usually solitary. Calyx 3-4 lines long, finely silky, the subequal 

 linear-setaceous teeth reaching three-quarters of the way down. Corolla 

 light rose-red, equalling the calyx. Pod linear, 9-12 lines long, \ in. 

 thick, glabrous, brown, not torulose, 12-15-seeded. 



Lower Guinea. Benguela; damp sandy ground by the river Bero, Dr. Wel- 

 witsch I 



6. la. corniculatus, Linn.; DC. Prod. ii. 214. Stem 6-18 in. long, 

 diffusely branched, glabrous or thinly silky. Leaflets subsessile, obo- 

 vate-cuneate, 6-9 lines long, glabrous. Flowers 4-9, in an umbel on 

 a peduncle 1-2 in. long, with a compound bract. Pedicels a line long. 

 Calyx I in. long, glabrous or slightly silky, the teeth lanceolate- 

 cuspidate, reaching more than halfway down. Corolla yellow, twice 

 as long as the calyx. Pod f-1 in. long, 1 line broad, straight. A. 

 Rich. Fl. Abyss, i. 176. 



Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! Quartin- Dillon and Petit! 



This is the common form, which is diffused throughout Europe, and reaches Japan 

 and Australia. We have specimens gathered by Dr. Quartin-Dillon, like the Spanish 

 var. glacialis of Boissier with silky stems 6 in. long, much smaller leaflets and flowers ; 

 the latter 1-3 together, with 1 or 2 very small sessile bracts. 



7. L. creticus, Linn.; DC Prod. ii. 211. A diffuse copiously-branched 

 perennial 1-2 ft. high, sometimes suffruticose, the branches densely grey- 

 silky. Leaflets 5, rather fleshy, oblanceolate-cuneate, 4-6 lines long, 

 both sides densely grey-silky. Flowers in umbels of 4-8 on axillary 

 peduncles 9-18 lines long. Pedicels very short. Bracts compound, 

 equalling or shorter than the calyx. Calyx 4 lines long, densely 

 grey-silky, the linear teeth equal to the tube. Corolla yellow, twice 

 the calyx. Pod linear, 12-18 lines long, turgid, glabrous, 9-15-seeded. 



Nile Land. Abyssinia {teste Schweinfurth) . 

 A common Mediterranean species. 



8. L. glinoides, Delile in Ann. So. Nat. ser. 2, vii. 286. Stems her- 

 baceous, a foot or more long, thinly grey-silky. Leaflets 5, obovate- 

 cuneate, 4-5 lines long, rather fleshy, glaucous, thinly grey-silky. 

 Flowers solitary or in pairs on short pedicels in the axils of the leaves, 

 or in clusters of 3-4 as if terminal on short leafy branches. Bracts 

 trifoliolate. Calyx 4 lines long, densely silky, the linear teeth reaching 

 three-quarters of the way down. Corolla reddish, scarcely exceeding 

 the calyx. Pod linear, glabrous, 8-9 lines long, slightly torulose, 

 8-10-seeded— Walp. Rep. i. 647. 



Nile Land. Nubia, Kotschy ! Abyssinia {teste Schweinfurth). 



9. L. Garcini, DC. Prod. ii. 212. Suffruticose, stems 6-12 in. 

 long, twiggy and diffusely branched, clothed with adpressed grey 

 pubescence. Leaves scattered, digitately trifoliolate. Leaflets obovate- 

 cuneate, entire, 1-3 lines long by half as broad, tomentose. Flowers 



