VICIA. 
205 
E. FI. iii. 282 (“not Roth, Willd., Rivin.” Sm.) is much more 
questionable, resting principally on the large pea-like consp'cuous 
brilliant-coloured crimson fl. with a broad expanded or dilated 
standard, and the mostly smooth dark dull-gr. foliage. So much 
of confusion and uncertainty prevails however with regard to the 
various pi. described imder the name V. angustifolia, that I should 
be unwilling to perpetuate or perhaps add to it by its adoption 
in any of its various senses for the Mad. pi., even were it pos- 
sible to establish the absolute identity of this with any one of 
them. The following svnonvms are those however which cer- 
tainly come nearest to V. conspicua var. a Iceta : 
V. angustifolia “Sibth.” Sm. E. FI. iii. 282; Hook, in EBS. 
t. 2614; Hook. Br. FI. (ed. 5) 1. 87 (excl. syn. V. Bobartii Forst. 
and V. sativa /3. Sm. FI. Br. 770). V. angustifolia (3. JBobartii 
Koch 217 (not V. Bobartii Forster in EBS. t. 2708) ; Gren. et 
Godr. FI. Fr. 1. 459. “ V. sativa y. Sm. FI. Brit. 770.” V. 
sativa d. Ser. in DC. ii. 361. 
Mr. Forster in EBS. t. 2708 appears to me to have exactly 
reversed the right syn. of t. 2614 and t. 2708. The former at 
least, by its linear upper lfts., seems, rather than t. 2708 with 
lanceolate upper lfts., to be the true V. angustifolia “ Sibth.” Sm. 
E. FI. iii. 28 2, to which Hooker had previously indeed, at t. 2614, 
referred it. Very possibly however t. 2708 is nothing more than 
a dwarf early 1-fld. state of t. 2614. 
4. V. pectinata Lowe. 
Slender with dark dull foliage, sparingly and minutely but 
inconspicuously puberulous, appearing almost smooth ; st. thin 
slender wiry branched climbing rampant; lfts. in 4-6 (mostly 
5 or 6) pairs awned or mucronate, all except those of quite the 
lowest 1. pectinate parallel linear very long and narrow 10-20 
times as long as broad mostly acuminate-cuspidate or acute, the 
lower mucronate retuse, the lowest only oblong- obcimeate or 
obcordate and minute ; stip. small half-sagittate laciniate- 
toothed, the teeth acuminate-subulate, pale-branded beneath ; 
fl. solitary or binate all distinctly stalked conspicuous ; cor. pea- 
like with the standard broad ; cal. subpubescent, sep. linear- 
subulate nearly equal about the length of the tube ; pods straight 
naiTOw subcompressed 8 or 9 times as long as broad black mi- 
nutely puberulous slightly knobbed by the seeds, not reticulate or 
veiny, 10-12-seeded ; seeds rather small nearly globose smooth 
even, tawny-y. thickly speckled with black, without any inter- 
mediate dissepiment — Herb. ann. Mad. reg. 1, rr. Amongst 
Cacti on the verge of the sea-cliff about a mile and half out of 
Funchal to the eastward, outside the Quinta on the right hand 
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