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colour faintly and minutely streaked or mottled with dull 
ochre-y. 
In habit, foliage, and stature L. Cicera L. agrees with L. sati- 
vus L., differing principally in the narrower oblong unwinged 
4-seeded pods, larger stip. and smaller differently coloured ff 
5. L. ANNUUS L. 
Smooth branched climbing by the branched tendrils, branches 
rampant winged ; lfts. in one pair linear-lanceolate long and 
narrow elongate acuminate nerved; stip. semi-sagittate very 
narrow linear much shorter than the leafstalk ; ped. longer than 
leafstalk, shorter than 1., mostly 1- rarely 2-lid. ; 11. middle- 
sized ; cal- teeth ovate-lanceolate not quite equal scarcely longer 
than the tube ; pod narrow-oblong slightly compressed closely 
and distinctly reticulated smooth very narrowly channeled at 
the back 6-8-seeded ; seeds globose smooth thickly granulate 
or warted. — Brot. ii. 141; Bucli! 197. no. 388; DC. ii. 373; Spr. 
iii. 262 ; WB. ii. 1 12 ; Koch 222. — Herb. ann. Mad. reg. 2 and 
upper edge of 1, r. In bramble hedges in the neighbourhood of 
Funchal from 500 to 1500 ft., as by the roadside about a mile 
below the Palheiro, in a cross-road joining the Canii^o and Ca- 
macha roads about a mile out of Funchal, a little above the 
Palmeira, &c. March-May. — Habit somewhat of L. odoratus 
L., rather dull gr. not glaucous. St. climbing like the garden 
Sweet pea ( L . odoratus L.) to the height of 3 or 4 ft., broadly 
winged upwards. Lfts. grass-like 4 or 5 in. long, about l in. 
broad, attenuated at both ends. Stip. small very tine and nar- 
row. Leafstalks an inch long broadly winged. FI. y. scentless 
not inconspicuous but mostly rather smaller than those of 
L. Clymenum L. Ped. 1- rarely 2- fid., at first as long as, but 
presently much shorter than the 1., minutely or obsoletely bract- 
leted at the base of the pedicel, rarely awned by abortion of 
the 2nd fl. FI. pea-like 5-6 lines long. Standard rather dull 
orange-y., streaked inside with red and veined, with a promi- 
nent plait or fold not tubercle on each side at the base. Wings 
bright y. rounded. Keel greenish-y. very blunt and thick. Pods 
2-2^ in. long 4 lines broad somewhat compressed straight mostly 
8-seeded ; when fully ripe of a pale yellowish brown and some- 
what rough from the more prominent reticulating veins. Seeds 
perfectly globose nearly 3 lines in diam. elegantly warted or 
granulate all over, of a dark dull brown speckled irregularly 
with black, and having a slight glaucous bloom ; hilum oval or 
elliptic. 
tl‘6. L. TINGITANUS L. 
Smooth dull gr. or glaucescent branched climbing by the 
branched tendrils ; branches stout rampant flexuose winged; lfts. 
in one pair oval- or elliptic-oblong obtuse mucronulate, the up- 
