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25. LEGOIIN OS . 
stip. of G. maderensis, and in all states at all seasons finely 
silvery-pubescent instead of occasionally being tawny-woollv. 
L. crowded their petioles rather shorter than the lfts. which 
are slightly unequal in. long and more than half as broad. 
Rac. produced distinctly beyond the 1. 1-2 in. long narrow and 
slender, at first pointed or acuminate, but presently obtuse, 
with the fl. individually smaller and somewhat paler as well as 
more compact or oblong than in G. maderensis Webb, often 
distichous or secund. Cal. \ equally cleft but not quite half- 
way down into only 3 nearly equal equidistant triangular-ovate 
pointed teeth, the usual lower 3 being perfectly united or com- 
bined into a single one precisely similar to but slightly more 
acuminate or longer than the upper pair. Standard broadly 
rounded, as broad as long, altogether smooth. Wings as long 
as standard oblong wholly smooth. Keel finely silky all over, 
its exposed part oblong obtusely rounded at tip, very nearfy as 
long as wings or standard. Style long slender subulate except 
quite at base, smooth ascending towards the end. Stigma 
minutely capitate slightly oblique. Pods (immature) densely 
silky compressed flat 4-6-seeded. 
The simply 3-toothed cal. caused by the complete junction 
into one of the 3 usual divisions of the lower lip, at once dis- 
tinguishes this Genista from G. maderensis (Webb), G. ( Teline ) 
Spachiana Webb ! BM. t. 4195, and from a Canarian pi. collected 
by Bourgeau marked in HH. G. ( Teline ) discolor Webb MS. 
So elegant and distinct a sp. is no more than a just tribute 
therefore in the Flora of Mad. to the distinguished zeal and 
energy displayed in behalf especially of Madeiran and Canarian 
botany by my excellent friend and correspondent the Barao do 
Castello de Paiva, to whose persevering ardour and discrimina- 
tion I am indebted for at least two highly interesting recent 
additions, viz. Scirpus maritimus L. and the curious little Soliva 
stolonifera (Brot.), to the Mad. Flora. 
** Unarmed ; l. all simple. 
3. G. viroata (Ait.). Piorno or Giesta de Piorno. 
Unarmed much branched more or less silky-pubescent and 
hoary; branches virgate fascicled or crowded slender elon- 
gated drooping or pendulous striated and angular; 1. all simple 
sessile lanceolate or elliptic sometimes obovate, mucronulate 
silky-villose; stip. very minute or obsolete; fl. subcapitate 
in very short few-fld. erect terminal corymbose rac. or little 
heads ; rachis pedic. cal. standard and keel silky-pubescent ; 
pods hoary-pubescent. — DC. ii. 119. Spartium virgatum Ait. ! 
