200 
25. LEGTJJIINOS^. 
mate, tlieir points singularly curving inwards towards each 
other, with strong fleshy midribs ; 3 lower more produced or 
acuminate, with less prominent midribs and withered or dis- 
coloured tips ; the teeth all hairy like the rest. Cor. cream- 
coloured more or less lilac, the standard streaked with dark- 
lilac or indigo-blue lines, keel nerved and tipped with a patch 
of the same, its edge pale y. or cream-colour. Stam. 1/9 not 
longer than the style, the sheath smooth. Style smooth below, 
clothed upwards chiefly beneath the capitate stigma with glan- 
dular spreading hairs, not bearded across with a distinct bunch 
or pencil as in genuine Vicice . Ov. quite smooth. Pod 14 in. 
long and 4 in. wide (in the NI). pL narrower, viz. 1|— in- 
long and only 2 lines or 4 in. wide), glaucous pale reddish 
brown or fawn-col. when ripe ; straight or somewhat scimitar- 
shaped, the point curving upwards. Seeds rather large and 
shaped somewhat like horse-beans, 5 millim. long and 3 broad, 
mottled with black on a dark red-brown ground. Hilum linear 
extending the whole length of one side of the seed ; funiculus 
very large and conspicuous. Nearly allied to the British V. 
sylvatica L. 
23. Yicia L. 
§ 1. Cracca ; fl. in distinctly stalked secund spikes or racemes. 
1. V. albicans Lowe. 
Ann. villose hoary, st. 4-sided climbing ; lfts. elliptic-oblong 
mucronate in 6-12 somewhat irregular pairs, the tendrils 
much branched and twining; stip. semisagittate deeply cut and 
toothed ; ped. 2-5- (mostly 2-) fld. much shorter than the 1. ; 
cal. coloured villose-hairy, the 2 upper teeth minute and indi- 
stinct, 3 lower linear-subulate shorter or not longer than the 
tube ; pods oblong rather broad and short compressed velvety 
or densely pubescent about 4-seeded ; seeds globose smooth. — 
Prim. 33; Seub. Fl. Azor. 49. no. 386. V. gracilis Sol. ! MSS. 
quoad legumina; BH. quoad ex. ad dextram schedae “ 2 Madeira, 
1777; Fr. Masson” inscriptum ; Buch ! 197. no. 390 in part 
(not Loisel.). Vida micrantha Lowe ! Prim. 33 and App. (ed. 
2. p. v). V. atropurpurea y. biflora WB. ii. 105. V. biflora , 
W15. t. 65 b. (not Desf.). — Herb. ann. Mad. reg. 1, r. Sunny 
rocky ground in the neighbourhood of Funchal ; e. g. at the top 
of the W. bank of the Rib. de Joao (tomes ; amongst cornfields 
and waste ground to the E., especially below the Capella das 
Ndves on the Cani^o road ; in the vineyards on the road to 
S. Antonio a mile out of Funchal to the W., See. Jan. -June. 
— Root small fibrous with small tubers. St. diffuse branched 
at the base, climbing by means of the much branched 3- or 
4-cleft tendrils, 2 or 3 ft. long leafy upwards and rather stout. 
