170 
25. LEGUMrXOSJE. 
last sp. liere and there, general, but less common or abundant. 
Top of rocks to the E. of the Valle Quinta near Funchal. Chest- 
nut woods at the Jardim da Serra. Along the Levada in the 
Rib. das Cales above the Arrebentao, bed of the Rib. da Metade, 
and summit of Pico da Suna above Porto da Cruz, mixed with 
L. hispidus Desf. May-August. — St. 6-12 in. high, generally 
more or less erect, in young pi. often quite so, finally spreading 
or diffuse. Habit leafy with the st. somewhat stout firm or stiff' 
and reddish-brown or purplish downwards. More hairy with 
mostly larger foliage than L. hispidus Desf., of a dark dull gr. 
Lfts. and stip. inequilateral. Ped. about an in. long, both in ff. 
and fr. longer than 1., and in fr. sometimes twice as long, but 
varying on the same pi. FI. -bract often 3-foliate, lfts. lanceo- 
late. Fl. normally 2, often 1, rarely 3 together, rather larger 
than in L. hispidus, full y., the standard streaked inside and 
tinged at the base outside with red; sometimes in dry spots 
orange, but generally paler than in L. hispidus, and never turn- 
ing gr. or blackish-indigo in drying. Style simple, not forked 
or toothed ; stigma plainly though minutely capitate even to the 
naked eye. Pods slightly torulose (knobbed or knotted) smooth 
and shining, dark rich reddish-brown, f-1 in. long, \ line broad, 
beaked by the straight persistent style, lomentaceous within, 
with distinct transverse membranous partitions or diaphragms 
between the seeds, which are small orbicular compressed (not 
globular) and plain testaceous or fulvous brown. 
4. L. ULiGriNOSUS Schkuhr. 
Perennial cespitose robust sprinkled more or less with hairs, 
rarely quite smooth ; st. procumbent or ascending, more or less 
erect, succulent stout hollow ; lfts. elongate-obovate ; stip. large 
short and broad roundish-ovate subcordate and unequal at the 
base; heads or umbels fiat-topped many-tt. on long stout up- 
right stalks; cal. -teeth linear-lanceolate leafy, ciliate-hairy stel- 
late spreading or recurved in the bud like a star, hairy, not longer 
than the tube, much shorter than the cor., the 2 upper teeth di- 
vergent; pod smooth cylindric straight slender 4 or 5 times as 
long as cal. and 8 or 10 times as long as broad, 20-25-seeded. — 
Koch 107. L. major FR. t. 2001 ; Sm. F. Fl. iii. 313; Bab. 80. 
L. corniculatm [3. major DC. ii. 2 14 ; Seub. Fl. Azor. 40. no. 382 a. 
— Herb. per. Mad. reg. 1, 2, 3, c or ccc ; y. reg. 3, rrr. 
/3. glahriuscula Bab. 1. c. ; nearly smooth the edges and veins 
only of tin; lfts. stip. hr. and sep. pilose; st. procumbent or as- 
cending. — L. major (i. Bab. 1. c. L. corniculatm si/lvaticus Brot. ii. 
121. L. odor atm IIoll’s List in Hook. J. of Bot. i. 20 (not Schousb. 
or Sims in BM. t. 1233). — Moist steep banks about waterfalls or 
dripping rocks and borders of streams, general. Particularly 
abundant along the sea-dills of the S. coast from the Cabo Girao 
