138 
25. LEGUMIN0S.E. 
8 or 10 in. long- slender but firm dull violet or purple, the ends 
ascending. Lfts. softly hairy on both sides dull or dark smokv- 
gr. immaculate from 1 to ^ in. long and half as broad, minutely 
toothed. Stip. broad at the base narrow upwards and produced 
into a long acuminate point nerved membranous. Heads on 
long or short ped. sometimes sessile with one or two 1 . at their 
base about 6 lines long and 3 or 4 lines broad sometimes in 
pairs of a dark dull greyish gr. tinged with purple, bristly with 
the long hairlike cal.-teeth but soft. Cal. unchanged after fi. 
except in becoming more hairy 3 tube pale gr. strongly 10 - 
nerved its throat closed with a raised dark-gr. internal hairy 
rim or border ; teeth twice the length of the tube spreading 
setaceous a little dilated at the base purplish or dark dull gr. 
not becoming rigid, the lowest scarcely longer than the rest. 
Cor. very small pale-pink or rose. Pod obovate 1-seeded. Seed 
obovate smooth v. ; radicle prominent on one side. 
This sp. often has the heads of fl. so distinctly oblong that it 
might well be placed in the preceding group * but for its close 
affinity in other points with the next succeeding sp. 
4. T. LAPPACEUM L. 
Foliage hairv-pubescent dark dull blackish gr. ; st. erect with 
numerous cespitose elongated diffuse or prostrate side-branches 
from its base ; lfts. villose-hairy obovate minutely subdenti- 
culate at top ; heads hirsute hairy-webbed subylobose subsessile 
solitary terminal harsh rigid and spinescent after fl.) cal. -tube 
20-ribbed smooth , teeth triangular and S-ribbed at the base pro- 
duced into long bristly awns or subulate points fringed with 
long spreading hairs nearly or quite equal erect 2 or 3 times 
longer than the cal. -tube and a little exceeding the cor., after fl. 
spreading enlarged rigid somewhat horny and spinose. — Brot. ii. 
104(excl. var. Conimbric.) ; Spr. iii. 214; DC. ii. 191; Fl. Gr. 
t. 740 ; Moris Sard. i. 482. t. 02. f. 1 ; Seub. Fl. Azor. 49. no. 372 ; 
WB. ! ii. 71; Koch 188. — Herb. ann. Mad. reg. 1, r. Nl). 
Fields or waste fallow ground near the fort at the E. end of the 
Praia, find a little out of Funchal to the E. along the Cani^o 
road. ND. near the ruined house. March-June. — St., sheath 
of stip. and cal.- tube nearly or quite smooth ; lfts., free point of 
stip. and cal.-teeth softly hairy ; petioles sprinkled more or less 
with hairs. Foliage a peculiar dark lurid or smoky blackish-gr. 
Main stem erect not above 5 or 9 in. high ; side-branches pro- 
strate or ascending, often a foot long or more, spreading widely 
all round on the ground, mostly straight find simple. Lfts. 
rather small and short, softly find copiously hairy, stip. long 
and narrow acuminate taper-pointed ribbed or striate. Heads 
rather large find nearly globose. Fl. white with a faint pink 
blush. Cal. -teeth after 11. hard and almost pungent, triangular 
