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hiscent about half an inch long, the lower 1 -seeded part not 
longer than the cal. -tube turgid tightly coating the seed, 
shaggy with erect grey and black bristles and dotted with black 
glands ; the upper barren part or beak protruding in. long 
slender acuminate very tlat and thin straight and ensiform or 
slightly falcate naked pubescent at the edges, very pale brown. 
Seed single large ovoid compressed black shining closely ad- 
herent to the pod ; hilum nearly equidistant from each end. 
The whole pi. smells strongly of naphtha or bitumen. 
f2. P. AMERICANA L. 
Suflfutescent bituminous; 1. pinnately ternate, Ifts. rhom- 
boidal or rounclish-ovate repand-toothed , wedge-shaped and entire 
towards the base, nearly smooth glandular-dotted ; petioles and 
ped. glandulose and more or less pubescent ; fl. in pyramidal or 
oblong -pointed somewhat short and interrupted spikes or ra- 
cemes; sep. simply acute. — Linn. “sp. 1075;” Spr. iii. 200. P. 
dentata DC. ii. 221 . 
/3. cal. glandular and shaggy-villose. DC. 1. c. P. ame- 
ricana Buch ! 197. no. 401 . P. dentata , Holl’s List ! in J. of 
Bot. i. 20. — per. Mad. reg. 1, r. Borders of cornfields and 
amongst corn in all the district between the Bibeiro Seco 
to the W. of Fimchal and the Praia Formosa below 500 ft. ; 
not seen elsewhere, and evidently merely naturalized. Through- 
out the year, but chiefly March-June. — Rootstock per. sending 
out every year numerous ann. though somewhat shrubby stiff 
and woody stout diffusely spreading or procumbent branches 
1-2 ft. long, which are gr. striated and thickly sprinkled with 
y. or brown pellucid wart-like glands intermixed with a few 
hairs. Foliage rather large, dark shining gr. with a rank bitu- 
minous smell. Petioles long. Middle 1ft. stalked, larger than 
the other two which are about an inch in diam. FI. rather 
small, spicate on long axillary ped., pale lilac. Spikes or rac. 
at length 2 or 3 in. long interrupted below, dense upwards. 
Br. ovate-lanceolate shorter than the striated glandulose and 
densely villose cal. Sep. linear-oblong simply acute. Pod 
without beak 1-seeded indehiscent closely coating the seed 
altogether enclosed in the cal. shorter than the sep., 2 lines long, 
Itj broad, flat broadly oval densely muricato-glandulose or gra- 
nulose, otherwise smooth, dark tawny-brown. Seed closely 
adherent to the pod oval flattened smooth tawny or yellowish - 
brown. Hilum nearer one end than the other. 
