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25. LEGTJMINOSiE. 
reddish or purplish before ripe, very narrow and slender almost 
filiform, an inch or more long and only ^ a line broad falcate of 
equal curvature throughout, nearly cylindric or only slightly 
compressed, and even or scarcely perceptibly strangulate or 
torulose, minutely punctato-rugulose, with a slender acuminate 
more or less hooked beak. 
Mr. Babington in EBS. t. 2844 refers to “ Koch. Syn. 189,” 
meaning his 1st ed., for the pi. is omitted altogether in his 2nd. 
16. Ornithopus L. 
1. 0. PERPUSIELUS L. 
Ped. about as long as the 1. mostly 2- -3-fid. ; cal. -teeth ovate 
2-3 times shorter than tube ; pod slender narrow compressed 
erect arched or curved upwards, distinctly jointed or moniliform, 
beak straight shorter than the topmost fertile joint. — Desf. ii. 
172 j EB. t. 369 ; Buch ! 197. no. 396 ; DC. ii. 312 (excl. var. 0) ; 
Sm. E. FI. iii. 290 ; Koch 209 ; Bab. 86. — Herb. ann. Mad. reg. 
2, 3, c. Grassy banks in chestnut woods and mountain pastures 
almost everywhere above 2000 ft., e. g. up the Cammho do 
Meio, at or above Camacha, Paul da Serra at the Chao de Ma- 
deira, &c., and abundant in chestnut woods about the Jardim 
da Serra. May- July. — An inconspicuous but elegant little pi., 
not easily discernible in the short mountain turf of which it is 
however in most places a constituent. Whole pi. pubescent. 
St. 3-12 in. long prostrate or procumbent slender straight and 
stiffish. Lfts. in 5-12 or even 2 or 3 more pairs, small 1-2 
lines long, half as broad oval or elliptic rather close or crowded, 
the lowest pair in all but the root-1, close to the st. Stip. very 
small and indistinct adnate to the petiole. Ped. 1-4-fi. slender 
filiform in. long with a sessile pinnate 1. at top. FI. very 
small white elegantly painted within with bright crimson and 
y. lines or dashes. Cal. pubescent the teeth short triangular- 
ovate. Pods pubescent £-£ in. long, 1 line broad, slightly curved 
upwards throughout their whole length, distinctly constricted 
between the joints; when riper or dry elegantly wrinkled or 
striate longitudinally. Joints oblong-oval truncate at each end. 
Beak straight short. 
O. sativus Brot. (O. roscus Dufour, O. perpusillus 0 DC.) with 
cal. -teeth linear-subulate as long as the tube, and rather longer 
straighter or quite straight inclining or pendulous pods with a 
beak as long as the topmost joint, should be looked for in Mad., 
occurring as it does both in Portugal and (Seub. FI. Azor. 49) 
in the Azores. 
2. 0. compress us L. 
Ped. shorter than tho 1. mostly 2 3-fld. ; cal. -teeth linear- 
