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25. LEGUMIXOS^. 
PI. Gall. Par. 1. 10. t. 32 ; DC. ii. 372 (excl. /9) ; Koch 221. 
u L. coccinetis All. FI. Ped. no. 1222. L. axillaris Lam. Diet, 
ii. 706 ’’ (DC.). L. angulatus WB. ii. Ill (not Linn.). — Herb, 
ann. Mad. reg. 2, 3, r. Curral dos Romeiros a little way above 
the bridge at the bottom, in steep stony places ; Serra d'Agoa 
Webb, 1828 ; by the road approaching the Curral das Freiras 
on the E. side, Dr. Lippold, 1837. May-July. — A small grass- 
like pi. resembling L. Kissolia L. Boot small fibrous with a few 
little tubercles. St. erect amongst loose stones and grass, con- 
siderably branched towards the base but not bushy, the branches 
diffuse quadrangular throughout, not more than a foot long 
slender hard and wiry. Whole pi. quite smooth bright gr. Lfts. 
grass-like remarkably long and narrow, those of the upper 1. 
2-2§ in. long, | in. wide, finely acuminate. Upper 1. with a 
long simple awn-like mostly straight not curling or prehensile 
tendril ; the petiole of the lower ending in a short awn-like 
point. None of the petioles, not even the lowest, aphyllous. 
Each half of stip. very narrow and finely acuminate, the upper 
half often considerably longer than the leafstalk which is 3-6 
lines long. Ped. solitary axillary, produced into a long fine 
slender awn bearing at or below rarely above the middle of the 
whole length of the ped. and awn together a single, stalked fl. 
jointed to the ped. in fr. ; the part below the joint or true ped. 
1-12 lines long, but mostly considerably shorter than the 
awn or leafstalk. Fl. rather small, about 4 lines long or the 
size of those of L. Kissolia L., dull vermilion. Pods 1^-2 
in. long 3 lines wide pale brown or fawn-col. smooth, with nu- 
merous strong longitudinal nerves, and the dorsal or seed-bear- 
ing suture narrowly margined, 8-12-seeded. Seeds orbicular 
rather than spherical compressed 2 lines in diam. 1 lino thick 
dusky olive-brown obscurely spotted or speckled with black, 
quite smooth and even ; hiluni oval or ovate. 
ttt3. L. SATrvus L. Chicharo. 
Nearly smooth somewhat glaucous branched bushy suberect 
climbing by the branched tendrils ; branches difiuse winged 
compressed ; petioles narrowly winged linear ; lfts. in one pair 
linear-lanceolate elongate acuminate ; stip. oblong or ovate- 
lanceolate semi-sagittate shorter than the slightly winged leaf- 
stalk; ped. 1-fld. longer than the leafstalk awnless; fl. large; cal.- 
teeth herbaceous lanceolate equal almost 3 times as long as the 
tube ; pod short ovate or elliptic compressed irregularly reticu- 
lated smooth, curved 2-winged and channeled at the upper edge 
or suture, mostly 3-seeded ; seeds 2-4 compressed angular 
smooth even.- BM. t. 115; Des£ ii. 168; Brot. ii. 188: Fl.Gr. 
t.. 695 ; Buch 197. no. 387 ; DC. ii. 373 ; WB. ii. 112 ; Koch 
222 ; Seub. Fl. Azor. 49. no. 388. L. satin/s y. coloratus Ser. in 
DC. 1. c. — Ilerb. ann. Mad. reg. 1, 2, cc. A common crop cult. 
