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25. LUPINUS, Town. 



1. LUPINUS MICROCARPUS, Sims. 

 Lupinus microcarpus, Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 2413 ; Agardh, Syn. Gen. Lup. p. 2. 



Hab. Chili, near Valparaiso. (A form less hairy than usual.) 

 2. Lupinus Lindleyanus, Agardh. 



Lupinus Lindleyanus, Agardh, Syn. G-en. Lup. p. 9. 



Hab. Peru, below Obrajillo. 



A dwarf form of the species, a span to a foot high, more hirsute 

 than usual, or villous with long and spreading hairs, some of them on 

 the upper face of the leaflets. The flowers are said to be " pale blue, 

 with a white carina." 



3. Lupinus nubigenus, Kunth. 



Lupinus nubigenus, Kunth, PI. Legum. p. 174, t. 50 ; H. B. K. Nov. Gen. & Spec. 

 6, p. 480 j Hook. Bot. Misc. 2, p. 217; Agardh, 1. c. p. 21. 



Hab. Andes of Peru, above Baiios. (In flower only.) 



Our specimens are identical with Hooker's plant, above-cited, which 

 was gathered in the same district by Mr. Cruckshanks. They accord 

 so nearly with specimens from Antisana that I cannot but refer them 

 to Kunth's L. nubigenus: but the stem is more developed, often a 

 span high ; the short-pedunculate, very thick and dense, cylindrical 

 flowering spike is from 5 to 7 inches long; the upper lip of the calyx 

 is very deeply two-cleft, the lower tridenticulate, or more decidedly 

 three-toothed at the apex. Still the plant is not large enough to agree 

 with the character of L. alopecuroides, and the ovary is only four- 

 ovuled. The leaflets, from 9 to 11 in number, are an inch and a half 

 in length. " Flowers light blue." 



