LOTUS. 
169 
GD. reg. 2, §. — Dry sunny rocky ground and mountain pastimes 
everywhere. Top of rocks E. of the Quinta doValle near Funchal, 
the Praia Formosa, mountain pastures 3000 ft up the Caminho 
do Meio, Serra beyond Camacha, at Canii^o, S' Anna, mouth of 
the Rib. da Janella, bed of the Rib. da Metade, summit of the 
Pico da Suna, &c. May-Sept. 
St. prostrate very numerous branched and often almost matted 
or cespitose, 6-18 in. long, slender pale or whitish. Whole pi. 
pilose, but hairs shorter less copious and silky than in L. angustissi- 
mus L. Stip. leafy. Ped. filiform, considerably longer than the 1., 
1-1^ in. long, straight or curved, not deflexed, with mostly 3, 
sometimes 4 or 2, very rarely 5 or 1 fi., 3 being the normal num- 
ber by a vast majority. FI. -bract or 1ft. lanceolate, always in 
Mad. single. FI. much larger than in L. parvi/lorus Desf., but 
slightly smaller than in L. angustissimus L., bright full orange- 
y., with the standard streaked inside and tinged outside with 
red, turning in drying a peculiar dark indigo -gr. Pod 3-6 lines 
long, i-1 line thick, very straight and equably cylindric, beaked 
by the simple (not forked) long straight slender minutely capi- 
tate persistent style ; the valves twisting spirally after bursting. 
Seeds small globose pale y. speckled with rufous or plain light 
brown. 
Constantly distinct from L. angustissimus L. in habit, pale st., 
less hairiness, mostly smaller or finer foliage, rather smaller 
deeper orange fl. turning gr. in drying, normally 3- (not 2-) fl. 
umbels on mostly longer ped., and above all, by the short and 
twice as thick pods. Both pi. occur continually growing inter- 
mixed. 
A starved maritime smaller more hairy state than usual of this 
pi., of which I have a spec, gathered in 1827 by Herr Holl, is 
possibly L. cytisoides of his List, which otherwise omits the pre- 
sent common sp. altogether. The true L. cytisoides L. is not 
found in Madeira. 
3. L. ANGUSTISSIMUS L. 
Very pilose; st. firm and stiffish procumbent or diffuse some- 
times erect ; lfts. lanceolate or oblong-obovate ; stip. inequi- 
laterally ovate or lanceolate half-cordate acute ; umbels 2 -ft. ; ped. 
in all stages straight erect longer than the 1. ; cal.-teetli straight 
linear-subulate, nearly twice the length of the tube, much shorter 
than cor. ; pods subtorulose linear long narroiv-cylindric very 
slender straight 4 or 5 times longer than cal. and 10 or 12 times 
as long as broad, 18-24-seeded. — Brot. ii. 119; Hook. Brit. Fl. 
(ed. 5)83(var. a.); Koch 198; Seub.Fl. Azor.49.no. 380 ; Bab. 80; 
WB. ! ii. 85 (excl. syn. L. hispidus Desf.). L. angustissimus andi. 
diffusus Ser. in 1)C. ii. 213. L. diffusus Sol. ! in BTI. ; Buch ! 198. 
no. 414 ; EB. t. 925. — Herb. ann. Mad. reg. 1, 2, 3, c. With the 
