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25. LEGUMrSOS.E. 
4-5 or 6 lines long and 1-1£ broad, densely pilose, pale brown 
or yellowish tipped with the long waved capillary style, 
scarcely or only a little longer than the persistent somewhat 
enlarged and spreading cal. Seeds 1| mill, in diam. roundish- 
reniform flat or compressed deeply and distinctly notched with 
the radicle very prominent ; uniform plain black and elegantly 
and minutely granulate. — Var. : 
a. tridentata Lowe (1838) Novit. p. 26 or 548 ; 4 upper sep. 
dilated upwards, mostly 3-toothed. — Subv. 1. FI. rose-col. O. 
dentata Sol. ! MSS. Prim. (Cam. Phil. Tr. iv.) 34. t. 4. O. re- 
clinata a. Lowed WB. ! (1840) 1. c. 28. — Abundant at top of 
the Ilheo da Cevada or dos Embarcadores on P ta S. Lourenco, 
Mad. Dry waste places by the road-side at Camaxa and rocky 
summits of Pico do Castello and P. d’Anna Ferreira in Porto 
S t0 . — ND. along the central rocky crest or ridge. GD. on tops 
of the highest peaks towards the south. — Subv. 2. FI. pure 
white. GD. rr. on tops of highest peaks with subv. 1. 
/3. simplex Lowe Novit. 1. c. ; sep. all simple entire linear- 
lanceolate acute or acuminate. — O. reclinata EBS. t. 2838 ; 
Hook. Brit. FI. ed. 5. i. 76 ; Koch ed. 2. 174 ; Bab. 73. O. 
Cherleri Desf. ii. 148 ; FI. Gr. t. 677 ; DC. ii. 162 ; Koch u ed. 1. 
159 ” (not Linn.). O. pendula Desf. ii. 147. t. 191 P DC. ii. 162 P 
O. mollis Lag., Savi,” DC. ii. 162. O. reclinata (3. Linncei and 
y. Fontanesii WB. l.c. 28. — Mad. reg. 1, rrr. On P ta S. Louren£o 
beyond the Bocha Furada, Dr. C. Lemann. ND. rr. growing 
intermixed with a. SD. at top, rr. 
No dependence can be placed on the difference in the sep. of 
a and /3, which vary through innumerable intermediate grada- 
tions from the dilated normally 3-toothed state to simple linear 
acuminate ; a being however both in Mad. and the Canaries by 
far the most abundant form. 
O. pendula Desf. seems from his fig. and description to be 
only a large luxuriant state of this pi. with smooth lfts. grown 
in a damp rich soil or situation. 
§§ Bugrana DC. FI. and pods nearly or quite sessile ; the 
stalk not jointed. 
2. O. MICRANTIIA Lowe. 
Herbaceous annual glandular-pubescent more or less viscid 
leafy ; st. numerous procumbent or ascending ; 1. temate, only a 
few of the uppermost simple ; lfts. subcoriaceous nerved short 
broadly obovate or oval, closely evenly and sharply serrate ; stip. 
large leafy ovate broadly amplexicaul more or less serrulate ; 
fl. solitary erect subsessilo in long leafy spikes, inconspicuous 
shorter than the 1., cor. not longer than sep. ; cal. campanulate 
