120 
25. LEGUMLN'OS^E. 
131 DC. ii. 407 ; Spr. Syst. iii. 227. L. prolifer Desr. in Lam. 
Diet. iii. 622 ; Brot. ii. 132 ; Biv. Bernh. Cent. l ma 55. — Herb, 
ann. Mad. cult. reg. 1, 2, ccc. Sown universally as a crop ; in 
fields for seed and fodder, in vineyards chiefly for manure to 
the vines. March, April. — St. erect 1-2 ft. high, stout and 
stiff, not branched till it has produced its terminal erect short 
blunt or truncate rac. of pale or rather dull blue fl. ; then pro- 
liferously branched, the side shoots producing each a terminal 
rac. often overtopping the first, but not usually branching again. 
Foliage dull or greyish gr. softly villose and peculiarly flaccid 
or fast withering when gathered. Fl. scentless middle-sized 
very pale bluish or lilac. Cal. with mostly a minute linear 
bractlet on each side at the notch between the upper and lower 
lip. Pod about 2 in. long, oblong, coarse and thick, velvety. 
Seeds large flat squarish-orbicular smooth and rather shining, 
pale flesh or cream-colour, about £ in. (6-7 lines) diam. and 2 
lines thick. 
The seeds are used as an ingredient in Sopas. The whole pi. is 
cut or pulled green for fodder ; and is often grown under the vines 
in order chiefly to be dug into the ground for their manure. 
In the Canaries, especially in Grand Canary, the same sp., 
called Chocho, is even more extensively cult, than in Mad. ; 
and the seeds, macerated for 24 hours in cold water, are much 
used for feeding cattle. 
Intermediate between L. dibits L. and L. t anus L., and marked 
by Mr. Bentham in HH. as a var. of the former ; but its proli- 
ferously branched and bushy habit with the short abrupt rac. 
of pale blue fl. constantly distinguish it. Webb unaccountably 
omits it altogether in his Canary Flora. 
L. LUTEUS L. Yellow Sweet-scented Lupine. 
St. branched upwards ; lfts. lanceolate-oblong acute, all over 
softly pubescent ; fl. y. bractleted in remotely whorled inter- 
rupted rac. ; upper lip of cal. 2-partite, lower 3-toothed ; seeds 
smooth and even, rather small Hat squarish-orbicular white or 
cream-col. speckled with black. — BM. 140; Desf. ii. 153; Brot. 
ii. 134 ; DC. ii. 407 ; Spr. iii. 228 ; Fl. Gr. t. 686. — Herb. ann. 
Mad. cult. reg. 1 or lower part of 2 ; r. At the Boa Nova on 
the road from Funchal to the Palheiro, sown for fodder and 
seminaturalized in and about the garden and environs. Mar.- 
May. — Whole pi. softly pubescent with white silky hairs but 
scarcely grey or villose, about 2 ft. high sparingly and strag- 
glingly or loosely branched upwards. Fl. conspicuous bright 
full y. approaching to orange, tilling the air in Mad. with their 
perfume, which resembles that of the Wallfl. ( Cheiranthus 
