LOTUS. 
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westward. About Funchal, S ta Anna, S. Vicente, &c. May- 
September. 
Root perennial long thick somewhat fleshy stoloniferous. St. 
2 ft. long or more, nearly solid at the base, hollow and without 
pith upwards, stout purplish smooth, but sometimes sprinkled 
with a few long soft spreading hairs, cespitose, forming a large 
spreading tuft, quite prostrate at the base, their ends ascending 
and approaching to erect. Foliage dark full gr. flaccid quickly 
withering. Lfts. large oblong-obovate or elongate-obovate 
sprinkled with long soft hairs, the 2 side ones inequilateral ; 
glaucous beneath. Stip. very large broad leafy short and Roundish 
inequilateral half-cordate, also hairy like the 1. Fl.-br. 3-foliate, 
lfts. large very broadly ovate, the 2 side ones inequilateral half- 
cordate short. Fed. 2 or 3 in. long. FI. scentless rather large, 10- 
12 or more in a large close head or umbel, often about 20, rarely 
so few as 6 or 8, of a somewhat duller y. than in L. corniculatus 
L. a. ; standard saffron-red outside especially in the bud, streaked 
internally at the base with saffron lines ; it turns gr. in drying. 
Shorter filaments simple scarcely dilated upwards. Cal. -teeth 
densely hairy, almost woolly in the bud, and stellate like those 
of L. odoratus Sims in BM. t. 1233, mostly purplish, ovate, with 
long subulate hairy or ciliated points ; in fl. and fr. lanceolate, 
the 2 uppermost diverging at an acute angle. Pods cylindric 
about an in. long, in. or nearly 1*- line broad, dark coffee- 
brown quite smooth and nearly even, spreading or drooping, 
tipped with the slender straight minutely capitate simple style. 
Seeds orbicular compressed small, one millim. in diam., plain 
yellowish-brown or fulvous. 
y. pisifolia ; smooth glaucous ; st. suberect spreading or diffuse 
branched throughout dicliotomously, very stout thick firm hol- 
low ; lfts. and stip. very large. — L. pisifolius Novit. 24 or 546. — 
Wet grassy bank by a spring called the Junqueiro or Junceiro 
on the S. side of Pico Grande at the beginning of the ascent from 
the Caminho Central ; also in a very wet spot halfway down the 
Voltas below the Cruzinhas on the road to Seixal. July, Aug. 
— Very different in aspect and habit, but proved, by examination 
of the Pico Grande pi. subsequently in its place of growdh, to be 
a merely transitory rank luxuriant state of /3. 
Whole pi. quite glaucous and except the cal. nearly smooth. 
St. 2-3 ft. high and as thick as the little finger, quite smooth 
and glaucous, spreading or reclining but more erect than in /3, 
regularly forked throughout flexuose or zigzag and branched 
alternately in one plane, the branches expanding in a fan-shaped 
manner. Foliage very large and pale glaucous gr., as glaucous 
as in the common Garden Pea ( Pisum sativum L.) ; lfts. 1-2 in. 
long, u in. broad. Stip. rather larger than the lfts., sprinkled 
like them towards the edges with a few long hairs. Ped. 4-6 in. 
long bearing at top close beneath the heads or densely crow’ded 
