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25. LEGUMIN’OSiE. 
Canaries ; and I have myself lately found abundantly T. resupi- 
natum L. in Gomera, an island never visited by MM. Webb and 
Berth elot. 
13. T. RESUPINATUM L. 
Quite smooth dark full gr. ; st. numerous prostrate or pro- 
cumbent ; lffcs. obovate or obcordate finely and sharply serrulate ; 
ped. axillary rather short about as tony as rarely somewhat longer 
than the l. ; heads in fl. small jlat-topped umbellate with the in- 
volucre or bractlets very minute , fi. shortly stalked radiant, the 
standard resupinate or heloiv the keel ; heads in fr. large naked or 
only slightly pubescent not velvety subglobose somewhat loosely 
botryoidal, the upper part of cal. much inflated saccate conspicu- 
ously 2-horned beaked lageniform dejlexed scarious conspicuously 
reticulated pubescent chiefly at the base, with 2 short prominent 
divaricate conspicuous setaceous teeth. — Brot.ii. 109 ; DC. ii. 202 ; 
EBS. t. 2789 (fl. incorrect) ; Spr. iii. 218 ; WB. ! ii. 77; Koch 190 ; 
Bab. 79. — Herb. ann. Mad. reg. 1, r ; BS. reg. 3, r. Dry sunny 
grassy places near the sea ; Machico at the E. and W. end of the 
beach, abundant in the Plane-tree public walk or Praca. Ascent 
of Cabo Girao (Dr. Lippold) ; in PS. at the Fonte das Pombas 
and N. side of P. de Juliana. May- Aug. — Boot strong white 
fleshy, merely annual. Herbage quite smooth dark gr. St. 2-12 
in. long radiato-prostrate but not rooting, very numerous matted 
in the centre straight slender. Lfts. bright full gr., barred or 
spotted, remotely nerved as usual, not closely striate. Stip. ovate 
acuminate or lanceolate finely pointed. Fl. deep rose inclining 
to purple, conspicuous in radiant umbellate heads like little 
double daisies with a pale eye, the deep rose-col. standards form- 
ing the rays, and the pale pink-edged wings and keel the disk 
or iris, the centre or pupil of which is again deep rose, consisting 
of the unexpanded buds. Ped. sometimes shorter rarely longer 
than the 1. mostly erect sometimes in fr. deflexed. Heads small 
in fl., large in fr. Bractlets or involucre reduced to an incon- 
spicuous ring of very minute transversely oblong truncate shortly 
ciliate-toothed pale whitish membranous scales, not longer than 
the very short pedic. of the outer or lowest row of fl. Standard 
alone resupinate from a twist in its claw, deep rose with darker 
lines. Two upper teeth of cal. linear-setaceous closely parallel 
equal pale with a large dense silky-villose tuft of white hairs at 
their base, the 3 lower teeth larger broader divergent equal deep 
gr. ; tube pale or whitish, smooth in fl., pubescent in fr. all over. 
Heads in fr. half an in. or more in diam. of a peculiar light trans- 
parent apple-gr. not streaked or tinged with red, the large 
bladdery calyxes deflexed imbricate and standing out distinctly 
like a bunch of filberds, the 2-horned vaulted upper lip quite 
concealing the remains of the cor. strongly conspicuously and 
