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subulate nearly as long as tube ; pods large broad and flat de- 
clining or pendulous scimitar-shaped or booked downwards 
only towards tbe tip, distinctly j ointed or moniliform ; beak 
hooked, as long as or longer than the topmost joint. — Desf.ii. 172; 
Brot. ii. 159; Buch! 197. no. 397; FI. Gr. t. 714; DC. ii. 311 ; 
WB. ii. 117. — Herb. ann. Mad. reg. 2, 3, ccc. Sunny open spots 
and mountain pastures everywhere. Waste ground about 
Funchal, at Camacha, &c. April-June. — Altogether hairy or 
pubescent, and of a peculiar somewhat pale or hoary light apple- 
gr. St. numerous from a radical tuft of 1. prostrate or pro- 
cumbent 6-18 in. long spreading all round stout strt&ight and 
stiff. Lfts. numerous in 10-20 pairs crowded and close together 
larger than in Arthrolobium ebracteatum DC. ; the lowest pair 
in the upper 1. close to the st. ; in the lower 1. oval, in the upper 
elliptic ; all acute or mucronulate. Ped. 2-5-fl. short with a 
sessile pinnate 1. at top beneath the umbel. FI. small, the 
same size as in A. ebracteatuyn DC. but clear y. approaching to 
lemon. Pods much compressed 1-2 in. long, 1^-2 lines broad, 
straight below, strongly hooked towards their point, finely 
pubescent, distinctly constricted between the joints which are 
oval and truncate at each end : when ripe or dry longitudinally 
striate. 
17. Hippocrepis L. 
§ Annual. Sinuses of pods circular or nearly closed. 
1. H. MULTISILIQUOSA L. 
Ped. about the length of or a little shorter than the 1. mostly 
4-6-fl. ; pod arcuate or circularly falcate with deep liorse-shoe- 
shaped sinuses opening on the convex edge, hispid-echinulate 
over the horse-shoe-shaped seeds and minutely glandular-ciliate 
irregularly at the upper convex edge. — Desf. ii. 175 ; DC. ii. 312 ; 
WB. ii. 118 ; FI. Gr. t. 717 ; Moris Sard. i. 543. t. 66. — Herb, 
ann. Mad. reg. 1, rrr ; PS. reg. 2, r. Brazen Head, Mad., out- 
side the rocky hummock ; hill-sides in PS. here and there to- 
wards the sea. April, May. — Nearly smooth and shining, only 
here and there slightly puberulous. Cotyledon-leaves long 
linear. Boot nearly simple white. St. several 6-12 in. long 
sometimes erect mostly procumbent or diffusely spreading 
straight angular strongly ribbed or striate shining reddish or 
purple. L. dark full gr. 1£ in. long ; lfts. of lower 1. in 2 or 3 
pairs broad oval, of upper in mostly 5 pairs with an odd one 
narrow elliptic about 1 in. long slightly retuse mucronate, 
beneath like the short leafstalks, ped., and st., subpuberulous. 
Ped. usually nearly or quite the length of the 1. sometimes 
shorter 2-6-fl. FI. rather small bright golden y., standard a 
little streaked outside with reddish-purple. Pods of a very 
singular and beautiful form, an in. or more long, J in. broad 
