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25. LEGTJMINOSJE. 
succulent climbing not much branched; lfts. in 4 or 5 pairs 
pubescent broadly orbcordate or obcuneate, the upper more ob- 
long, retuse or truncate with a very prominent awn or mucro, 
the lower less, none more than 2-3 times as long as broad ; stip. 
semisagittate many-toothed laciniate, the teeth acuminate- 
aristate, darkly branded beneath ; fl. \~2-nate all nearly sessile 
inconspicuous narrow-oblong ; sep. hairy-pubescent linear-lanceo- 
late acuminate unequal, the 2 upper distinctly longer than the 
tube ; cor. not more than twice as long as tube and sepals, 
standard narrow-oblong ; pod narrow linear 8-9 times as long 
as broad, smooth eyen or scarcely nodulose subreticulate or veiny 
flat or compressed 10-12-seeded ; seeds rathe r large (3^-4 mill.) 
orbicular compressed smooth and eyen, plain black, separated by a 
slight spongy cellular dissepiment. — DC. ii. 362 ; Koch 217 ; Gren. 
et Godr. Fl. Fr. i. 459. — Herb. ann. Mad. reg. 1, -§ ; PS. reg. 3, r ; 
GD. reg. 2, r. — Yarr. : 
a. Fl. dull-purple inclining to yiolet. 
ft. Fl. brighter-purple approaching to crimson. 
Cornfields and waste ground, never cult, as a crop, but singly 
here and there, and often intermixed with V. conspicua ; a. Mad. 
along the Canipo road to the E. of Funchal; ft. with brighter 
col. more conspicuous fl., Mad. iu com ; Loo-fields and between 
the Quinta do Valle and Bib. de Joao Gomes ; grassy mountain 
pastures amongst brambles at the Terra Queimada above Ma- 
chico on the road to S. Ant. da Serra ; PS. at the base of the 
steep grassy slope half a mile below the top of Pico do Facho ; 
GD. in the central valley. May- June. — A somewhat coarse 
and robust or rankly growing pi. of a bright full green, all over 
hairy-pubescent, and with rather large dense cumbrous foliage, 
18 in. high, but little branched, climbing by means of its 
branched twining tendrils. Branches stout and succulent. Stip. 
much cut or toothed, stamped with a blackish depression be- 
neath. Lfts. rather large and broad, 4-9 or 10 lines long, 2-3 
broad and, except the lowest, which are shorter and broader 
(roundish-obovate or obcordate), very uniform in size and shape, 
coarser or more substantial than in V. conspicua. Fl. all soli- 
tary in Mad. and nearly or quite sessile, narrow-oblong with a 
narrow standard : in a. inconspicuous with the keel dark dull 
red ; in ft. rather or at least more conspicuous, of a brighter 
colour verging towards crimson or (in GD.) dark crimson. Sep. 
unequal, the 2 uppermost a little shorter than the rest, but 
distinctly longer than the tube, which is split up in fr., linear- 
acuminate, pubescent. Pod 24-27 lines (50-55 mill.) long, 3 lines 
(6 mill.) broad, pale or rusty brown quite smooth flat or com- 
pressed feebly reticulate or veiny and not knobbed or bossed by 
the seeds, which are only large in comparison with those of 
V. conspicua and not speckled. 
