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25. LEGUMINOS^:. 
in BH. ; Bncli ! 197. no. 395. Adenocarpus parvifolius and 
A. intermedius DC. Prodr. ii. 158. A. parvifolius Spr. iii. 226; 
Holl’s List ! J. of Bot. i. 21. A. complicatus Gay ! — Slir. per. 
Mad. reg. 2, r. Sunny hillsides about 2 miles out of Funchal 
up the Caminho do Meio both to the right and left of the 
road, abundantly, forming sometimes thickets. June-Dee. — 
A peculiar-looking slir. 2-5 ft. high with remarkably straight 
stiffly divaricate or erecto-patent interlacing taper branches of 
a singularly pale or whitish straw-colour, gr. only towards their 
tips whilst young, and in great part naked, with remote tufts or 
little crowded bundles of remarkably small dark gr. 1. Branches 
stiff round slender tapering upwards, shining and smooth 
downwards, finely striate, minutely papillose and furry-puberu- 
lous upwards, especially whilst young ; the side-shoots occa- 
sionally almost pungent or spinescent. L. aggregate in little 
distinct tufts on very short furry-pubescent petioles ; lfts. 3 ob- 
ovate-oblong or lanceolate, obtuse, 3-5 lines long and 1-3 broad, 
nearly or quite smooth above, furry-pubescent and scabrous 
beneath, almost always folded together lengthways and with 
the margins involute. FI. bright lemon-y. scentless rather 
large and handsome, about the size of those of Genista virgata 
L., in terminal erect naked rac. at the ends of the main and 
short upper side-branchlets of the year, thus forming loose 
thyrsiform pyramidal or oblong panicles. Main rac. often 
branched or compound at the base ; otherwise slender elongate 
3-6 or 7 in. long with the lower fl. remote, the upper more 
crowded ; side-rac. short 2^- or 5-fid. Cal. strongly 2-lipped ; 
lips very unequal, the 3 lower sep. pendent, £rd longer than the 
2 upper : the whole thickly tubercled or muricate like the pods 
with short obtuse subcapitate glandular setae. Standard out- 
wardly thickly pubescent or velvety ; the rest of cor. smooth. 
Pods about an inch long, 2-2^ lines broad, compressed and fiat, 
oblong, somewhat obtuse, all over hispid-muricate or papillose 
with short thick often capitate glands and slightly viscid ; Burst- 
ing elastically when ripe with considerable force in the hot sun, 
the valves twisting spirally in opposite directions. Seeds 5-10 
very smooth and shining, at first dark greenish, then testaceous 
or reddish-brown mottled or speckled with black, flattened 
roundish-subtriangular or roundish -cordate, notched at the hilum. 
In BH. there are 3 sheets of spec, belonging to this pi. : viz. 
1, marked “ Cytisus glutinosus MSS.” with u divaricatns ” written 
underneath, and at the back “ Madera Fr. Masson 1776;” 2, 
u Cytisus glutinosus MSS.” with “ C. divaricatus ” and u Adeno- 
carpus ” written underneath, and “ Ilort.” at the back ; 3, named 
as above, with “ Herb. Miller” at the back. These 3 sheets 
therefore authenticate the syn. of H^ritier and Aiton. 
