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cor. Style slender capitate minutely puberulous upwards all 
round. Pods lik c those of the common garden-pea (Pisum sa- 
tivum L.) hut smaller, 1-1^ in. long, £ in. or 4 lines broad, 
quite smooth 2-4- mostly 3-seeded pale yellowish brown or fawn- 
colour. Seeds large 2^ lines or i in. diam. uniform velvety- 
black. Hilum small short linear white. 
6. E. gracile (Loisel.). Cigerao. 
Smooth or nearly so but occasionally subpubescent, branched 
climbing rampant; lfts. linear or linear-oblong acute cuspidate 
erect in 3-4 pairs but mostly placed irregularly or alternate, the 
tendrils simple unbranched twining; stip. all semisagiftate or 
hastate ; ped. 1-4 -flowered longer than the l., often twice as 
long, awned ; sep. nearly equal short half -ovate or triangular 
shorter than their tube , much shorter than cor., the 2 uppermost 
converging ; pods linear or linear-oblong compressed subtorulose 
6 or 7 -seeded smooth ; seeds globose even; hilum roundish-oval 
small . — “DC. Catal. Hort. Monsp. 109 ; FI. Franc. v. 581 ;” Koch 
219. E. tetraspermum (3. gracile DC. ii. 367 ; Seub. FI. Azor. 49. 
no. 384. U E. tenuifolium La g.,E. tenuissimum Pers. and E.longi- 
folium Ten.” DC. 1. c. E. varium Brot. Phyt. Lusit. Fascic. 1 
(1801) “no. 29;” Ejusd. FI. Lusit. ii. 152; WelwitschFl. Lusit. 
exsicc. Sect. ii. no. 811 in BII. Vicia gracilis Loisel. FI. Gall. ii. 
148. f. 12 ; Koch (ed. 1) 192 ; EBS. t.2904 ; Bab. 82. V. laxi- 
Jlora Brot. Phyt. Lusit. Fascic. 1 (1816) p. 125, t. 52. V. te- 
trasperma (3. laxiflora WB. ! ii. 100. — Herb. ann. Mad. reg. 1, 
2, 3, ccc; PS. reg. 2, 3, 4, c, or GD. reg. 2, c. Waste ground, 
■vineyards, &c., a common weed about Funchal, and in ravines 
and thickets everywhere in Mad. Boad-sides about Camacha, 
up P. do Facho and P. Branco, &c. in PS. Central valley, 
GD. March-June. — St. slender branched and climbing exten- 
sively amongst shrubs or herbage. Whole pi. slightly puberu- 
lous but apparently smooth, sometimes distinctly subpubescent, 
of a bright full gr. Lfts. commonly 5-10 lines long and linear or 
very narrow but variable in breadth, the lower especially, in 
luxuriant pi., sometimes half as broad as long, yet always acute 
and cuspidate, never blunt and mucronate. Ped. erect stiff 
slender 2-3 in. long, often, especially in fr., twice as long as 
the 1. FI. bluish-lilac 3-4 lines long i. e. larger than those of 
E. tetraspermum L. and twice the size of those of E. hirsutum L. 
Cal. and sep. subpubescent, the latter very slightly unequal 
short half-ovate or triangular-lanceolate, acute, the 2 uppermost 
broadest and shortest ascending and converging with their 
points mutually incurred, the 3 lower (especially the lowest) a 
little narrower and more lanceolate but very little longer, all 
shorter than the tube, scarcely ( with tube) half the length of cor. 
Cor. 2-3 times length of cal. Style capitate subpuberulous up- 
wards. Pods 6-7 lines long, 1^-2 broad, pale lawn-col., 5-8- 
