AEENOCARPUS. 
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Hort. Kew. (ed. 2) iv. 255; Buch ! 197. no. 383; BM. 2265; 
Spr. iii. 176. — Shr. per. Mad. reg. 2, 3; cc. Dry sunny rocks and 
cliffs everywhere chiefly from 1000-4000 ft. but descending as 
low as 200 or 300 ft. "Neighbourhood of Funchal up the W. 
side of the Bib. de Joao Gomes, &c. ; beyond Camera de Lobos 
by the road, and top of Cabo Girao. Very plentiful about the 
Pico Grande along the Caminho Central ; sea-cliffs at P ta do 
Pargo, &c. March-July. — A shr. from 6-8 ft. high with 
much the habit as to its modes of growth of Common Broom 
(Sarothamnus scoparius L.) i. e. apparently naked or with small 
inconspicuous 1., but with more slender almost filiform crowded 
flexible drooping tufted switchy tresslike or brushlike branch- 
lets and of a pale hoary or greyish silky lustre instead of dark 
dull gr. L. small very variable in size and shape, the upper 
simply acute or acuminate, the lower bluntly obovate and mu- 
cronate, the midrib inconspicuous and but slightly excurrent, 1-4 
or 5 lin. long, |~1|- lin. broad. FI. slightly fragrant smaller less 
conspicuous and more lemon-y. at first than in G. maderensis 
Webb, afterwards more golden, and often turning rich orange- 
brown as they wither ; aggregate in little heads of 2-4 together 
at the end of the branchlets and forming dense corymbose masses. 
Cal. silky-pubescent, 2 upper sep. triangular-ovate acute, 3 lower 
linear-lanceolate sometimes united into a single ovate one. Br. 
inconspicuous minute much shorter than cal. -tube linear silky- 
pubescent. Standard and keel silky-pubescent. Wings smooth. 
Stigma oblique inwards. Pods ^-scarcely 1 in. long, 2-3 lines 
broad, silky-hairy 3-5-seeded very flat acute or apiculate, often 
waved or sinuate at the margins, and strangulate or constricted 
between the prominent oval not much flattened shining black 
seeds, of which seldom more than 2 or 3 come to maturity. 
The tough flexible branches and branchlets are used occa- 
sionally as withs for binding bundles, &c. 
5. Adenocarpus DC. 
1. A. divaricatus (Herit.). Codeqo or Codeso. 
Branches pale or whitish divaricate stiff straight slender, 
tapering and puberulous upwards ; 1. fasciculate, dark gr., lfts. 
smooth and even above, puberulous and pitted or pustulose 
beneath, small mostly conduplicate ; rac. terminal lax elon- 
gated, often compound or branched below and forming a loose 
pyramidal-oblong panicle ; the lower fl. subremote, the upper 
crowded ; pedic. longer than the very unequally 2-lipped tuber- 
cular-glandulose cal. — Cytisus divaricatus II6rit. ! Stirp. 184; 
Ait. ! Hort. Kew. (ed. 1) iii. 50 (not Sibth. Fl. Gr. t. 704). 
C. parvif olius Lam. Enc. M6th. ii. 248 (excl. syn.). u C. com- 
plicatus DC. Fl. Fr.” (not Brot.). C. glutinosus Sol. ! MSS. 
