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sep. lanceolate f, tlie 3 lower exactly equal considerably shorter 
narrower and smaller than the 2 upper. Style very distinctly 
forked or toothed ; stigma slightly capitate. Pods f in. long, 
1 line thick, torulose but not moniliform or strangulate, straight 
spreading, dark coffee-brown. 
This may be subdivided into 2 states or varr., viz. a. virescens ; 
gr. herbaceous in aspect though shrubby, with long straggling 
branches, longer ped. (2-3 in.), and larger more naked lfts. and 
stip., approaching L. cytisoides L. much in habit and appearance, 
and growing in moister or more sheltered spots : and (3. cinerea , 
with more the habit of P. glauca, i. e. more suffruticulose of bushy, 
with shorter branches and smaller greyer or even silvery-silky 
foliage, the lfts. being only 1-2 lines long by \-l line broad, the 
petioles 1 line long, and stip. 1 line long and broad. Such spec, 
occur only late in the autumn (Oct.) before the rains or after 
the summer drought, along the sea-cliff to the E. of Funchal 
between Fort S. Jago and the Louros, and are merely depau- 
perated states of a, formerly confoimded by me with P. glauca. 
On the other hand, var. a. more resembles Lotus cytisoides L. or 
L. prostratus Desf., which are not however (quoad ex. in HH.) 
true Pedrosice, having the style simple. Hence however the 
present pi. rather than the small starved maritime state of Lotus 
hispidus Desf. above mentioned was probably Holl’s L. cytisoides. 
2. P. glauca (Ait.). 
Suffrutescent glaucous-grev very finely and shortly adpresso- 
pubescent not silvery scarcely silky-hoary ; st. slender filiform 
much branched and entangled cespitose prostrate or procum- 
bent ; 1. very shortly stalked or sessile rarely all sessile ; lfts. and 
stip. alike in size and shape crowded small often a little succu- 
lent or fleshy, twice as long as broad, mostly obovate or spathu- 
late obtuse or rounded at top, not mucronulate, the midrib not 
excurrent; ped. rather short 2-4-fl. ; pods rather short and slender 
2-4 times the length of the cal., irregularly beaded or monili- 
form and often here and there strangulate from abortion of the 
seeds, smooth 10-30-seeded ; seeds globose, often in part abortive. 
— Varr. : 
a. intricata : lfts. and stip. obovate or spathulate obtuse ; partly 
stalked, sometimes all or often nearly all sessile. — Lotus glaucus 
Ait. ! Hort.Kew. (ed.2) iv. 392 ; DC. ii. 210; Buc-h ! 198. no. 412; 
Holl’s List in Ilook. J. Bot. i. 20. P. glaucus a. and /3. Sol. ! in BH. 
L. glaucus WB. ! ii. 84 (in part only, and excl. icon. t. 61). “ L. 
corniculatus Linn, variet. Madera Francis Masson 1776,” Sol. ! in 
BII. quoad ex. in scheda una e tribus sub eodem nomine (non 
