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umbels a single ternate 1. like the other 1. FI. 12-15 in a head, 
full v. Cal. campanulate, the tube quite smooth pale gr., teeth 
always dark gr. narrow acuminate rather longer than the tube 
fringed with long white soft hairs, woolly and stellate in the 
bud. Standard faintly streaked with red indistinct not confluent 
lines. Shorter filaments not dilated upwards. 
13. Pedrosia Lowe. 
* Fed. 1-5 or 6-fl. FI. subumbellate y. or or. 
1. P. XEGLECTA Lowe. 
Suffrutescent mostly gr. and rarely glaucous hoary-grey or sil- 
very, yet clothed with fine short close-pressed inconspicuous 
pubescence ; st. elongated wiry slender lax and widely spreading 
procumbent or diffuse not intricate or cespitose; 1. distinctly 
stalked ; lfts. and stip. unlike but both submucromdate with the 
midrib slightly excurrent ; lfts. obovate or obcuneate t wice as long 
as broad, either obtuse and mucronulate or subacute ; stip. in- 
equilaterally deltoid or rhomboidal scarcely longer than broad and 
broadest at or near the base, mucronulate and 'subacute ; ped. long 
curved slender 3-5 -fi . ; pods rather short and thick scarcely 4 times 
the length of cal. straight torulose smooth 10-12 -seeded. — Lotus 
corniculatus var. Sol. ! in BII. quoad ex. in schedis tantum dua- 
bus inscriptis 11 Lotus corniculatus Linn, variet. Madera Fr. Mas- 
son 1776,” et 11 Lotus corniculatus Linn. var. Maderal776 Downe” 
(not Linn.). L. corniculatus Bucli ! 198. no. 415 (not Linn.). L. 
glaucus (3. nob. MSS. olim. L. cytisoides IIoll in J. of Bot. i. 
20 P ~ subper. Mad. reg. 1, r. Sea-cliffs to the E. of Funchal 
between Fort S. Jago and the Louros, and to the W. between 
the Soccorridos and Camera de Lobos. J uly, Aug. — Habit some- 
what resembling that of L. corniculatus L. except the wiry woody 
st., but much more like that of L. cytisoides L., being altogether 
greener with a more herbaceous look, and with larger thinner 
Hatter lfts. than in any of the following sp. except P. argentea. St. 
sparingly branched with elongated and distinct not interwoven 
and entangled branches, and not bushy or cespitose as in P. 
glauca Ait., the branches 1-2 ft. long rambling slender stiff and 
wiry, for the most part gr. though woody. L. not crowded 
always distinctly stalked ; petioles 1-2 lines long. Lfts 2-4 or 
even 5 lines long 1-2 or 3 broad, foliaceous fiat and membranous, 
not thick or succulent. Stip. shortly and broadly rhomboidal 
or rounded-deltoidal, not attenuated downwards but on the con- 
trary broadest below their middle, leafy, 1-2 lines long and broad. 
Ped. 1-3 in. long mostly curved or fiexuose but moderately stout, 
with a 3-foliate fi.-br. at top close below (he mostly 4- or 5-fid. 
umbel. FI. smaller than in P. glauca (Ait.) and of a less full 
golden (not at all or.) y., more like those of X. corniculatus L. 
but not turning gr. in drying. Cal. dark purple at the base ; 
