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pedicellos friictiferos graciles nunc rectos subpatentes divaricatosve 

 nunc flexuosos vel recicrvatos cequantes. SejKda 4-5 mm. longa, 

 acuminata. Corolla 10-11 mm. longa, soepe pallide rosea, petalo 

 superiore acuto efc quam in typo angustiore. Typi fructus. 



Of slender, climbing kahit like F. nmralis, but sometimes more 

 vigorous and growing to a larger size. Foliage usually ample, with 

 oblong-lanceolate leaf-segments. Peduncles incurved and rather 

 slender. Bracts, or at least the lowest, as long as the fruiting 

 pedicels, which are slender and very variable in direction, even on 

 the same individual plant, sometimes straight and erect-spreading 

 or divaricate, sometimes flexuous or even recurved almost as in 

 F. capreolata. Sepals 4-5 mm. long, acuminate. Corolla 10-11 

 mm. long, often pale in colour, with the upper petal acute and 

 narrower than in the type. Fruit much as in the type. 



8. BRiTANNiCA, nov. var. 



F. muralis auct. angl. ex parte, non Sonder. 



F. Borcei var. serotina Pugsley in Journ. Bot. xl. p. 177, non 

 Clavaud. 



Habitu laxo, scandente et gracili, sed minus quam in F. 

 murali. Folia quam in typo saepe minora. Pedunculi pedicel- 

 lique graciles. Sepala 3-4 vim. longa, 2-2f mm. lata, vix 

 acuminata. Corolla rar6 plus 10 mm. longa, saepissime pallide 

 rosea. Friictus circa 2 mm. longi, latitudine paululum minores, 

 suhrotundo-obovati vix compressi stipite obscuro quam pedicelli 

 apex minore praediti, in vivo ante maturitatem interdum subapi- 

 culati. Medium inter F. Borcei et F. muralem fere tenet. 



Habit slender and climbing or diffuse, but less so than in 

 F. muralis, although often with long internodes. Foliage fre- 

 quently smaller and more glaucescent than in the type. Peduncles 

 and pedicels slender. Sepals 3-4 mm. long, and 2-2f mm. broad, 

 acute but scarcely acuminate. Corolla rarely exceeding 10 mm. 

 in length, usually rather pale. Fruit about 2 mm. long and nearly 

 as broad, subrotund-obovate in profile, but little laterally com- 

 pressed and narrowed below to an obscure neck less in width 

 than the tip of the pedicel ; when fresh, sometimes subapiculate 

 before maturity. 



Sub -var. longibracteata. 



Eacemis paucifloris pedunculos baud yequantibus, bracteis 

 pedicellos fructiferos breves superantibus, sepalis acuminatis a 

 varietate britannicd differt. 



Racemes few-flowered, not equalling the peduncles. Fruiting 

 pedicels stout and short, exceeded by the subtending bracts. 

 Sepals acuminate. 



Sub- var sarniensis. 



Habitu suberecto ramosissimo, racemis brevioribus densioribus, 

 fructibus prope globosis. 



Suberect in habit and much branched. Racemes relatively 

 short and dense. Fruit nearly globose. 



