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or filiform. FI. very small golden-y. in a loose capillary corym- 
bose panicle. Pet. about ^rd longer than the finely acuminate or 
subulate-pointed sep., very obtuse or truncate, erose or uneven 
at the edge, cohering laterally by the middle of their claw and 
thus all falling together. Styles 5. Branches of panicle not 
downy in the axils as in L. corymbuliferum Rchb. (Z. aureum 
DC. not Waldst. and Kit.). Pedic. in fr. longer than the cal. 
only in the earlier or lower primary first-opening fl. ; in the 
later or secondary upper fl. they are shorter. 
2. L. sthictum L. 
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Herbaceous smooth ; st. single or several from the base sim- 
ple stiffly erect thickly corymbose at top and leafy ; 1. crowded 
stiff linear-lanceolate very scabrous and minutely ciliate-ser- 
rulate at the edges; panicle dense corymbose leafy; sep. lan- 
ceolate sharply acuminate or produced into a long rough glan- 
dular-ciliate or serrulate point, twice as long as the caps. ; 
pedic. in fr. much shorter than the cal. — Desf. i. 278 ; Brot. i. 
484; DC. i. 424; Spr. i. 964; Presl 169?; WB. i. 26; Koch 
138. — Herb. ann. Mad. reg. 1, r ; PS. reg. 1, 2, c. Cornfields 
and sunny waste ground near the sea in a calcareous sandy 
soil; in Madeira scarcely except about the Fossil-bed at the 
Piedade near Can^al ; in PS. general, Rib. de Cochino, towards 
the Fonte d’Area, &c. April- June. — A remarkably stiff rigid 
leafy pi. 2-10 in. high, the st. very erect and leafy. Panicle 
forked proliferously, thickly leafy and bushy or crowded, with 
densely aggregate very shortly stalked golden-y. very small fl. 
almost buried in the 1. ; sep. membranous below, their long 
produced rough stiff point herbaceous ; in fr. pale whitish and 
stiffly membranous or horny downwards ; pet. acute shorter or 
not longer than the long-pointed conspicuous sep. Caps, glo- 
bose slightly pointed, smooth inside. 
tff3. L. TRIGYNUM Roxb. 
Shrubby smooth ; root creeping ; 1. alternate elliptic pointed 
at each end, fl. bracteated trigynous. — BM. 1. 1100 ; DC. i. 425. 
— Shr. per. Mad. reg. 1, cult, cc ; subnat. r. On terrace-walls 
and waste ground here and there in or about Funchal, and a 
very common ornament of gardens. Oct.-June. — Roots send- 
ing up turions or suckers. St. 1-2 ft. high dark gr. like the 1. 
which are 1-2 in. long and nearly sessile. Fl. very large and 
handsome 2 in. diam. bright golden-y. produced in vast pro- 
fusion and in long succession throughout the winter or spring 
months. 
** Edge of sep. not glandular. Fl. blue. 
4. L. ANGUSTiFOLiUM Huds. Linho bravo. 
Herbaceous smooth ; st. numerous procumbent ; 1. linear - 
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