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** Ped. short 1-fl. FI. greenish tipped with blackish-purple. 
4. P. macrantha Lowe. Cabelleira. 
Suffrutescent dull glaucous-green subcinereous very finely and 
minutely adpresso-puberulous scarcely silky-hoary ; st. slender 
stiffish bushy procumbent or diffuse ; 1. very distinctly stalked ; 
Ifts. and stip. unlike very small , the latter transversely oval or 
rhomboidal nearly sessile, the former roundish-obovate obtuse or 
retuse minute ; fl. solitary on short axillary ped. versicolorous ; 
pods very long and straight evenly cylindric many-seeded smooth ; 
seeds 30-40 minute orbicular compressed shining dark brown. — 
Lotus macranthus Novit. 24 or 546. — subper. Mad. reg. 1, r; 
PS. reg. 2, 3, 4, c. Mad., Brazen Head, outside the hummock 
on sunny rocky slopes. PS., hill-sides and highest rocky peaks, 
general. March- June. — Root scarcely more than ann. or at 
most bienn. nearly simple or tapshaped flexuose whitish soft 
brittle j nicy. From its woody suffrutescent crown spring several 
partly prostrate st. spreading all round to the length of a span 
or more, forming usually a little bushy shr. They are round 
smooth and purplish at the base, hoary upwards with close- 
pressed silky hairs, and altogether stouter stiffer and less wiry 
than in P. glauca. Foliage much finer and smaller than in 
that sp. , less close or dense, and not white or grey, but glaucous 
dull smoky green, appearing smooth, yet clothed like the st. 
upwards and the petioles with fine short close-set or distant 
adpressed white and silky hairs. Stip. nearly sessile leaf-like 
subinequilateral broader than long often emarginate at the base. 
Petioles about two lines long. Lfts. roundish-obovate or ob- 
cordate 1-2 lines long, 1-lf broad ; petiole or common foot- 
stalk 1^-3 lines long. Fl. very large often an inch long, always 
solitary cernuous or even pendulous on short jointed rounded 
axillary ped. 2 or 3 lines long, scentless, often dull purplish even 
in the bud, but mostly at their first expansion pale sulphur or 
pale greenish-y., streaked or tinged more or less with dull 
brownish purple, with a blackish purple patch at the base of the 
standard, and the tip of the keel always dark purple. As it 
fades the whole fl. becomes first brownish, then more or less 
dark purple or blackish. There is usually a stalked 1-3-foliate 
br. at the joint or base of pedic. Cal. large pale gr. pubescent ; 
teeth f, long linear acuminate nearly equal in length, the two 
upper broadest ; the 4 upper ascending, the lowest straight. 
Pet. not loose and flaccid as in P. glauca, but compact and close, 
altogether concealing the stamens and style. Wings as long as 
standard, closely embracing the remarkably long purple-beaked 
keel, uniform pale sulphur. Stam. diadelphous 9|1 the 9 com- 
bined into a smooth silvery-whitish sheath ; fil. unequal, the 
longer dilated upwards and often barren. Ov. hairy chiefly 
along the upper suture, soon becoming smooth. Style as long 
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