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preceding. St. erect much branched from the base, 1-3 ft. high 
straight and stiff with many long weak wide-spreading lower 
side-branches at the base, of a peculiar white or pale-y. colour. 
Foliage dark gr. harsh, not viscid, scentless. FI. sessile incon- 
spicuous nearly concealed by the fl. 1. and their white hardened 
chaffy scale-like close-pressed dilated stip. ; cal. tubular ; cor. 
pale purple scarcely longer than the sep. which are equal lan- 
ceolate-cuspidate fringed many-nerved or striate gT. leafy with 
a pale or whitish scarious base and tube. Pods light brown 
sessile erect small flat broadly ovate or oval with a very abruptly 
hooked short beak or point, pubescent upwards, 2-3 lines long, 
1^-2 broad, not longer than and quite concealed by the broadly 
ovate cuspidate leafy many-nerved sep. Seeds 3 or 4 rather 
small (1^ millim. diam.) dark brown or black flat or compressed 
orbicular indistinctly notched, with a slightly prominent radicle 
coiled round a central hollow on each side ; strongly muriculato- 
granulate. 
7. Anthyllis L. 
1. A. Lemanniana Lowe. 
St. sufffutescent downwards, diffuse or decumbent, clothed 
with close-pressed silky hairs ; 1. pinnate with an odd one, lfts. 
about 10 elliptic-oblong silky-hairy beneath unequal, the lowest 
smaller, the end odd one not larger than the middle lfts. ; heads 
of fl. mostly double or in pairs bracteate, br. ligulate ; cal. very 
hairy a little inflated oblong pale primrose or lemon-y., cor. 
cream-col. more or less tinged with pale rose or flesh-col. turn- 
ing lemon-y. in drying, with the tip dark blackish crimson or 
atropurpureous ; pod semi-oval 1-seeded. — Hook. J. of Bot. 
viii. 291.— Herb, or — per. Mad. reg. 3, 4, rr. Highest central 
rocky crags and peaks of the island, scarcely or only accidentally 
below 5000 ft. ; Serra d’Agoa along the Caminho Central under 
Pico Grande, Webb, 1828 ; rocky peaks towards the Curral das 
Freiras, about the Pico do Areeiro, C. Lemann, 1837 ; a little 
way down the Voltas descending into the Curral das Freiras ; 
Rib. da Metade, high up in the bed of the ravine, numerous 
fine pi. in fi., May 1857, Mr. N. H. Mason : but in both these 
two last localities it is merely an accidental straggler from the 
central heights above, i. e. the peaks about the Icehouse or Pico 
do Areeiro. I have myself observed it for several successive 
vears flowering in all these localities except the last of all. 
May-July. — About a foot high branched forming a low bush or 
tuft of a rather pale greyish green scarcely hoary ; st. slender 
suffrutescent at the base. L. 2-4 in. long ; lfts. elliptic acute 
3-7 lines long 1^-3 lines broad, above smooth full gr. silvery- 
hairy only at the edge, beneath silky-hairy scarcely silvery. Fl. 
in close heads on long slender erect or ascending ped. rather 
