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straggling ascending ribbed rugged and knobbed upwards, the 
young tiowering shoots with their petioles and rac. silky- villose 
or shaggy with soft brown or fulvous ascending hairs ; knobs 
( pulvini ) strong and prominent ; 1 . all ternate and very distinctly 
stalked ; stip. small distinct conspicuous ovate-acuminate per- 
sistent villose ; lfts. oblong obovate or lanceolate acute very 
distinctly awned or mucronate adpressedly silky-pubescent, 
with their margin and the prominent strong midrib beneath, 
like the petioles and stip., silky-villose ; rac. cymose-panicled 
terminal erect very short and abrupt or truncate rather few-fld. 
scarcely overtopping the 1., leafy at the base ; rachis pedic. br. 
and cal. fulvous- villose ; lower lip of cal. indistinctly 3-cleft. — 
Teline maderensis WB. ! ii. 37. Genista canariensis Buch ! 197. 
no. 385 (not Linn.). Cytisus candicans Holl’s List ! J. of Bot. i. 
21 (not Lam., Linn., &c.). Genista candicans Webb It. Hisp. 
50 in part only (not Linn.). — Shr. per. Mad. reg. 3, §. Per- 
pendicular shady sides of rocks and steep wooded banks in most 
of the principal ravines. Rib. Frio by the road a little beyond 
the cottages ; along the Levada at the Lamaceiros, &c., June, 
July. — A rather tall robust and somewhat sparingly branched 
shr. or sometimes almost tr. 5-15 or 20 ft. high with stout 
ascending straggling thickish naked branches bushy and leafy 
only towards their ends and below the 1. angular ribbed and 
knotty with sharp projecting knobs or spurs formed by the old 
prominent pulvini of the 1. Stip. small 1-2 lines long narrow- 
ovate finely acuminate or linear-lanceolate becoming hardened 
and persistent with the enlarged woody pulvini. L. crowded ; 
petioles as long as or longer than the lfts. which are often nearly 
or quite equal £ in. long and about half as broad, dark gr. 
and often nearly smooth or naked above, always acute with a 
strong prominent midrib beneath produced into a distinct pro- 
jecting awn-like point. Fl.-branchlets short leafy, forming thick 
crowded cymose panicles at the ends of the branches. Rac. 
G-12 fl., 1-4 in. long, short and as it were pnemorse or abruptly 
truncate, not produced beyond the 1. Fl. large and handsome 
conspicuous slightly fragrant bright v. Rachis, pedic., br. and 
cal. densely fulvous-villose. Br. distinct long linear, as long as 
cal. -tube. Upper lip of cal. cloven halfway down into 2 ovate- 
triangular divergent teeth ; lower lip a little longer and narrower 
obscurely 3-cleft at the tip, the 3 divisions linear connivent or 
closely parallel, and sometimes partially or quite combined into 
one. Standard roundish smooth or only a little pubescent out- 
side about the notch at top. Keel densely silky-pubescent. 
Wings quite smooth longer than the keel. Stigma oblique in- 
wards. Pods short about an in. long 2-3 lines broad flat com- 
pressed subvillose 4-7-seeded, one or more seeds usually abortive 
and the pods irregular in shape. Seeds dark olive-black flat- 
tened shining. — Pubescence of the young or flowering shoots, 
