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25. legumixos^:. 
small but very elegant, scentless, at first cream-col. faintly tinged 
with a pink or rose blush and tipped with dark crimson, the 
cal. pale primrose ; in withering the narrow standard and wings 
become also pale primrose, and the tip of the keel turns atro- 
purpureous or black. Heads generally geminate, the lower 
nearly sessile, the upper stalked. 
The large heads of cream-col. or pale blush-pink crimson- 
tipped fl., turning as they wither into a delicate pale primrose 
or lemon-y., render this a very well-marked sp., although in 
other respects it has very much the habit of the common Europ. 
A. Vulneraria L. I still possess an excellent flowering spec, 
collected in the Serra d’Agoa in 1828 bv my late friend Webb 
under the name of u A. montana L. ?” But Dr. Lemann first 
furnished me with living spec., although in too advanced a state 
of fl. for description, from the Icehouse Peak, in July 1837. It 
is however perfectly distinct as a sp. from either A. montana L. 
or the Spanish (not Canarian) A. Webbiana Hook. (BM. t. 3284) ; 
differing at first sight particularly from the latter in its truly suf- 
frutescent habit. 
Tribe II. Psoralece. 
8. PSORALEA L. 
1. P. bit umin o s a L. Fedegosa. 
Suffrutescent bituminous ; 1. pinnately ternate, Ifts. ovate- 
lanceolate or lanceolate entire nearly or quite smooth, sometimes 
adpressedly pubescent chiefly beneath and at the edges, pe- 
tioles and ped. closely and adpressedly pubescent ; fl. in abrupt 
short croicdcd spikes or heads ; sep. acuminate- awned. — Desf. ii. 
191; Brot. ii. 100: Buell! 197.no. 400; EL Gr. t. 738 ; DC. ii. 
210. P. bitummosa a, communis WB. ! ii. 92. — Slir. per. Mad. 
reg. 1, 2, ccc. PS. reg. 1, rr. In Mad. everywhere on dry 
rocks and banks ; in PS. only near the SW. point. Through- 
out the year. — A small sparingly branched shr. usually 1-2 ft. 
high with somewhat stout and straggling firm or woody elon- 
gated branches leafy upwards. L. on rather long sometimes 
nearly smooth stalks. Efts, dark gr. somewhat shining 1-1^ in. 
long, those of the lower 1. rounded-oval broader and shorter, of 
the upper oblong-lanceolate narrower and longer. Fl. in dense 
heads or clusters on long slender axillary ped. 2-4 times longer 
than the 1., pale greyish bl. or lilac, rather handsome. Ped. 
upwards, hr. and nerves of cal. very dark blackish gr. Cal. 
shaggy with grey .and black bristly hairs ; sen. acuminate- 
subulate or produced into long awn-like points. Pod fiat inde- 
