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the fruiting pedicels. Pedicels rather slender and often long, in 

 flower generally arcuate-deflexed almost as in F. capreolata, in 

 fruit straight or flexuous, erect-spreading or divaricate. Sepals 

 3-5 (commonly 4) 7nm. long, 1^-2| (commonly 2) mm. broad, oval, 

 peltate, acute, suhentire, or with a little shallow toothing about the 

 base, whitish or rosy in colour, with the median line often obscure, 

 rather narrower than the corolla-tube. Corolla 11-13 mm.. long, 

 rose-pinh in colour, with the tip of the inner petals and the ivings 

 of the upper one blackish-red. Upper petal rather broad but not 

 dorsally compressed, generally subacute or apiculate, with reflexed 

 wings rarely reaching the apex, but equalling or somewhat exceed- 

 ing the keel. Loiver petal subacute or apiculate, luith very narroio 

 spreading margins, often deflexed and free. Fruits of moderate 

 size or rather large, 2f-2f mm. long and 2^2| mm. broad, sub- 

 rotund in profile, broadest about the middle, and almost equally 

 narrowed above and below to a very short apex, ivhich is acute 

 ivhen fresh, but sometimes roimded luhendry, and an almost obsolete 

 neck, slightly narrower than the tip of the pedicel ; little com- 

 pressed laterally and obscurely keeled ; nearly smooth when dry or 

 sometimes, when quite mature, rugulose, with distinct and rather 

 large, though shallow, apical pits. 



F. paradoxa may be distinguished from F. muralis by its more 

 robust habit, many-flowered, lax, and short-peduncled racemes, 

 larger flowers, generally recurved on the pedicels, and larger, less 

 uniformly smooth fruits. Its long racemes similarly separate it 

 from F. Borcei, which also differs essentially in its larger, ovate, 

 toothed sepals, and obovate, obtuse fruits. F. neglecta presents a 

 marked contrast in its small and obtuse flowers, and smaller, 

 almost truncate fruits. 



Of F. sepium I have seen no authentic specimen, but it is no 

 doubt a species widely separated by its more climbing habit, 

 short, few-flowered racemes, long bracts, and lanceolate sepals. 



I have likewise been unable to examine any example of the 

 Algerian species, F. Munbyi, which resembles F. paradoxa in its 

 long racemes of large flowers. The narrow leaf-segments ascribed 

 to it, in conjunction with toothed sepals and very small, com- 

 pressed fruits, suffice, however, to show that it must be a different 

 species ; and similar leaf and fruit characters serve in a still wider 

 degree to differentiate F. Beuteri. 



From the forms united by Haussknecht under F. Gussonei, 

 F. paradoxa differs chiefly in its subentire sepals and its smooth 

 or rugulose instead of rugose fruits. Its leaflets are also some- 

 what broader, the upper petal is less laterally compressed, the 

 margins of the lower petal are narrower, and no Gicssonei form 

 bears such large flowers, with the possible exception of F. affinis. 



All the species of the Capreolatce are characterised by much 

 longer peduncles and larger sepals ; and the Agrarice differ widely 

 in the much broader margins of the lower petal and the tuber- 

 cular-rugose fruits. 



Distribution. — On the Continent F. paradoxa is at present 

 known in two locahties only in the interior of Spain, viz. Naval- 



