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25. LEGTJMINOSJE. 
per lanceolate ; stip. ovate-oblong or lanceolate semi-sagittate 
shorter than the leafstalk ; ped. somewhat longer than 1., 1-3- 
mostly 2-3-fld.; fl. large remote; sep. unequal, Supper shortest 
ovate, 3 lower longer and narrower, all shorter than the tube; pod 
linear-elongate compressed subtorulose faintly reticulated smooth 
6-7-seeded, the sutures narrowly bimarginate; seeds oval com- 
pressed smooth and even. — Jacq. Vindob. 18. t. 46 ; BM. t. 100 ; 
Desf. ii. 160; DC. ii. 374; WB. ii. 113; Seub. FI. Azor. 49. no. 
389. — Herb. ann. Mad. reg. 1 (upper part) rrr. Waste rocky 
ground above the Quinta de S. Miguel along the Levada de S* a 
Luzia, Funchal, u quite naturalized ” (Sr. J. M. Moniz 1860). 
Apr., May. — A stouter more robust pi., larger and coarser in all 
its parts than any other of the Mad. Lathyri, and with broader 
shorter dark dull gr. or somewhat glaucous lfts. St. stout stiff 
quadrangular winged. Petioles about an inch long angular 
stout and stiff) produced into a long stiff' naked stalk 1-3 in. 
long, and then mostly 3-branched into long slender tendrils. 
Stip. large and leafy, broader than usual. Lfts. 1-2 in. long, 
3-6 lines broad, many-nerved. Ped. 2 or 3 in. long erect stout. 
FI. very large scentless dark atropurpureous red-purple, about 
an in. broad or long, placed when more than one remotely on 
the ped. Pods 3-4 in. long 4-5 lines broad, very smooth and 
shining pale yellowish-brown or fawn-colour. Seeds 3^x2^ 
lines in diam. dark rich reddish-brown mottled and streaked 
with black, perfectly smooth and even ; hilum linear= about \ 
circumference of seed. 
Common in most of the Canary Islands, but assuredly of very 
recent introduction into Mad. 
§ 2. Clymenum DC. ; standard with a pair of compressed tu- 
bercles inside at the base, one on each side. Annual ; ped. 
1-few-ffowered ; lfts. several, mostly alternate, in the 
lower 1. wanting. 
7. L. Clymenum L. 
Smooth more or less glaucous tall branched rampant, st. slender 
elongate climbing by the branched tendrils, winged 4-sided; 
lfts. in mostly 3-4 pairs often alternate narrow-oblong or linear- 
lanceolate slightly obtuse mucronate; stip. obscurely semi-has- 
tate unequal lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, 2-3-toothed at the 
base, the uppermost large leafy ovate ; ped. as long as or longer 
than the /., 1-3 -Jld . ; ff. rather large ; cal. deep-cleft above; sep. 
unequal, the 2 upper short triangular remote diverging laterally, 
3 lower narrower and longer parallel, all much shorter than the 
tube; style rhomboidally spathulate ; pod narrow-oblong with 
straight margins subcompressed very narrowly and faintly chan- 
neled ut the back, smooth and nearly or quite even, mostly 0-8- 
