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pedunculis folio triplo longioribus; floribus plurimis in umbellam 

 congestis denique reflexis ; dentibus calycis villosuli subidato-acumi- 

 natis tubo longioribus ; legumine pilosulo trispermo. 



Hab. Near Obrajillo, Ancles of Peru. (Chachapoyas, Matthews, 

 in herb. Hook.) 



A species belonging, like the foregoing, to the group of which T. 

 repens is the type, most allied apparently to T. obcor datum, Desv., of 

 Buenos Ay res (to which probably belongs T. pqlymorphum of Seringe, 

 in DC, if not of Poiret) ; but it has narrower and barely retuse, not 

 obcordate, and sharply serrulate, obovate-wedgeform leaflets. From T. 

 Peruvianum it is abundantly distinguished by its many-floioered, 

 umbelliform heads, nearly as large as those of T. repens, on peduncles 

 of thrice the length of the leaves (from 5 to 7 inches long), and by its 

 elongated procumbent stems, a foot or more in length, and perhaps 

 creeping. All the plant is softly and loosely hirsute; the leaflets how- 

 ever at length glabrate, or their upper surface glabrous. Petioles an 

 inch and a half in length. /Stipules membranaceous, acuminate, 4 or 5 

 lines long. Pedicels reflexed after anthesis, a line and a half in length. 

 Flowers 4 or 5 lines long. Calyx sparsely hairy ; the subulate-acumi- 

 nate teeth longer than the tube, nearly equal, shorter than the scarious- 

 persistent corolla. Legume oblong, sessile, very obtuse at both ends, 

 sparingly and minutely pubescent, three-seeded, as long as the persistent 

 corolla. Seeds nearly orbicular, flat. 



34. LOTUS, Linn. 

 1. Lotus glaucus, Ait. 

 Hab. Madeira ; very common on the coast, near Funchal. 



2. Lotus angustissimus, Linn., var. 



Lotus divaricatus, Soland. in Herb. Banks, ex Lemann, non Boiss. 



Hab. Madeira ; at Santa Anna. 



