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crop about 12 or 15 in. high. Whole pi. nearly or quite smooth, 
light gr. leafy with finely pectinate foliage. Branches numerous 
from the base, rarely or sparingly subdivided, firm erect strongly 
ribbed or angular, as thick as a crowquill, 9-12 in. long. L. 2-1- 
3^ in. long with numerous (8-16) pairs of narrow linear some- 
what crowded pectinate lfts. 3-4 lines long and ^-1 line broad, 
of which the lower and often all are placed very irregularly and 
alternately. Lower lobe and teeth of upper lanceolate part of 
stip. linear-setaceous. Tendrils reduced to a short simple awn. 
FI. middle-sized 3-4 lines long pale rose-purplish, the keel tipped 
with w. Ped. not half the length of 1. Cal. and sep. smooth 
or only puberulous, the latter long and subsetaceous longer than 
the tube. Style capitate sparingly pubescent upwards along 
the upper side only. Pod 6-8 lines long, 2^ broad, pale yel- 
lowish or fawn-colour perfectly smooth and even, but curiously 
moniliform or strangulate from the very prominent large seeds, 
which are 1| line in diam. and of a reddish tile-colour. Hilum 
small oval. 
ftf5. E. monanthos L. Lentillia. 
Smooth climbing branched from the base, branches little sub- 
divided rampant ; lfts. linear or linear-oblong truncate or retuse 
mucronate in 5-7 pairs, the tendrils branched and twining ; 
stip. dissimilar very unequal, one very small sessile simple 
linear-lanceolate entire, the other large stalked pedately fringed 
or ciliate with long subulate setaceous divisions ; ped. 1-flowered 
nearly or quite as long as the 1. mostly awned ; sep. equal linear- 
lanceolate acuminate half the length of cor. ; pods broadly ob- 
long compressed torulose3-or 4-seeded smooth; seeds prominent 
large orbicular compressed. — Brot.ii.152; DC.ii.367; Koch 219. 
Vida monanthos Desf. ii. 165. V. monantha WB. ii. 101. Vida 
articulata Willd. ; Spr. iii. 267. Lathyrus monanthos Willd. 
Enum. (non Spec.) ex DC. — Ilerb. ann. Mad. reg. 2, Cult, 
as a crop in fields amongst corn to the E. of Funchal along the 
Cani^o road beyond S. Gon^alo, and above the Brazen Head. 
April, May. — Wholly smooth ; st. 1-3 or 4 ft. long scarcely 
branched except at the base, climbing thickly interwoven and 
entangled, especially when growing as a crop, by the mostly 
3-cleft tendrils, stout striate or 4-angular with a strong rib up 
each of the 4 sides. Stip. very peculiar ; the fringe-like lacinia) of 
the large stalked pedate one long and setaceous. Lfts. subremote 
in tolerably regular pairs, 4 9 lines long, 1-1 1 broad. Lower 
ped. shorter, the middle about as long as the 1. FI. rather 
large 4-6 lines long mostly considerably larger than those of the 
next sp. (E. y radio Loisel.) pale bluish grey; standard with 
dark dull v. veins and lip of keel with a dark v. spot, the wings 
white. Cal. and sep. quite smooth, the latter straight and 
equal acuminate longer than the tube about half the length of 
