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ALASSIO AND ITS FLOkA 
towards the end. Leaves about 5 centi- 
metres long, at the most, imparipinnate, 
slightly sheathed at the base, with 4-9 
pairs of sometimes opposite, sometimes al- 
ternate leaflets nearly all equal in length 
oblong or elliptical, concave on the upper 
surface, convex and careened on the lower, 
about one centim.. long, green above, tomen- 
tose, silky, and silvery beneath. 
Flowers pale-yellow in compact axillary 
or terminal heads^ the latter placed two 
by two in pairs; the corolla is still atta- 
ched when dry to the ripe fruit. 
Calyx tomentose with 5 teeth shorter 
than the tube, attached to the fruit and 
as long as it while it is unripe, but shorter 
and cracked in many places when the fruit 
has arrived at full maturity. 
Pod oval, nearly heartshaped, small, 
about three millim. in length; seed unique, 
reniform, enclosed in a horny capsule nearly 
as thick as a delicate finger nail. 
Very abundant on the side of Capo Santa 
Croce, near the carriage road, and below it 
down to the sea, in cracks and on ledges 
of the cliffs. 
