420 PHANEROGAMIA. 



Hab. Andes of Peru, near Banos and Obrajillo. (Chachapoyas 

 and Purruchuca, Andes of Peru, Matthews.) 



A low and slender species, with weak stems, sparsely and softly 

 pubescent throughout, or the foliage at length glabrate. Leaflets 6 to 

 12, narrovjly oblong or elliptical, varying to linear, from 7 to 10 lines 

 long, 2i to 4 lines wide, of a thin and membranaceous texture 

 copiously veiny, very obtuse or mostly truncate and slightly retuse 

 mucronulate. Tendrils commonly pinnate; the lowest pair close to 

 the stipules. Stipules semisagittate, or the upper broader and semi- 

 cordate, sharply and incisely lobed or 2-3-cleft, 2 or 3 lines long, per- 

 sistent. Peduncles about 2 inches long, equalling the leaf, pubescent 

 four-flowered. Flowers about half an inch in length, recurved, on 

 pedicels of barely a line in length. Calyx campanulate, pubescent, 

 or else glabrate with age, almost equally five-cleft ; the subulate teeth 

 as long as the tube, the two upper ones slightly smaller. Corolla appa- 

 rently purple. Ovary linear, somewhat stipitate, glabrous or nearly 

 glabrous. Style densely bearded from the apex nearly to the 

 middle. Immature legume glabrous, somewhat sabre-shaped, fully an 

 inch long. 



This can hardly pass into V. Andicola, H. B. K. ; which has much 

 narrower and strongly mucronate leaflets, entire and narrower sti- 

 pules, the style bearded at the summit only, and larger pods. 



5. Vicia Menziesii, Spreng. 



V. glabella; caulibm angulatis prcelongis ; stipulis superioribus semi- 

 sagittatis acuminatis, inferioribus flabellatis pectinato-dentatis, dentibus 

 longe subidatis; foliolis 8-12 (magnis) ovato-oblongis obtusis mem- 

 branaceis; pedunculis folio brevioribus apice plurifloris; floribus 

 (maximis) purpurascentibus longiuscule pedicellatis; calycis dentibus 

 acutissime subulatis tubo wquilongis. 



Vicia Menziesii, Spreng. Syst. Teg. 3, p. 267. 



V. grandifiora, Smith, in Rees' Cycl. no. 7, non Scop. 



Hab. Hawaii, Sandwich Islands : in forests of Mouna Kea : without 



