LATHYKUS. 
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seeded; seeds subglobose a little compressed subangular or 
straight and truncate at the liilum , smooth and even ; hilum 
linear circumf. of seed. — Desf. ii. 160; Brot. ii. 140; Buch ! 
197. no. 389 ; DC. ii. 375. L. tenuifolius Desf., DC. 11. cc. — 
Herb. ann. Mad. r eg. 1, 2, c. — Subvarr. : 
1. atropurpurea ; standard dark claret-purple, wings blue. — 
Mad. in bramble-hedges, beds of Opuntia and waste ground 
from 300 to 1500 ft., by the Can^o and Palheiro roadsides to the 
E. of Funchal, in the Bib. dos Cayados beyond Camacha, &c., 
c. March-May. 
2. roseopurpurea ; standard red-purple or rose, wings pale 
violet-blue ; fl. and whole pi. sometimes smaller and more glau- 
cous. — Mad. occasionally witii subv. 1. a little to the E. of 
Funchal, above the Brazen Head, up the Caminho do Meio, &c., 
r. March- June. 
3. albijiora\ standard pale blush-rose or purple or nearly or 
quite w.; wings white. — Mad. between theCanif^o road and Bra- 
zen Head ; Levada do Bom Successo, Sr. Moniz ; rrr. Apr., May. 
Quite smooth and with the fl. scentless, but otherwise with 
much the habit or aspect of the common garden Sweet Pea 
( Lathyrus odoratus L.); the fl. presenting analogous phases 
of col. Whole pi. of a dull dark slightly glaucous gr. some- 
times decidedly glaucous especially in subvar. 2. St. winged 
rather than 4-angular weak and slender 2 or 3 to 5 ft. high, 
branched throughout and climbing extensively. Leafstalks 
winged, the lower broadly so, dilated, leafless. Lower stip. none 
or very small ; middle stip. lanceolate ; uppermost broadly ovate, 
one much larger and broader than the other, scarcely or indi- 
stinctly semi-hastate but with one or more minute teeth at the 
base. Lfts. 1-2 in. long, 1-3^ mostly 1-2 lines wide, in 2-4 
mostly 3-4 pairs often placed irregularly or alternately. Ped. 
2-3 or 4 in. long, the lower 1-fld. shorter, upper rarely more than 
2-fid. longer than the 1. Fl. rather smaller than in L. odoratus 
L. but with the same variations in colour, viz. with the standard 
dark mulberry, rose-purple, pink, or white. Cal. unequally cleft, 
2 upper sep. broadly half-ovate or triangular divergent, 3 lower 
narrower approximate and parallel. Style short straight broad 
upwards, pubescent above, smooth beneath, rhomboidal-spathu- 
late and abruptly contracted at the apex into a short indexed 
point. Pods 6-10-seeded about 2 in. long and £ in. broad, not 
much compressed, quite smooth and even i. e. not at all or very 
obscurely torulose and with both margins perfectly straight or 
even, very faintly and indistinctly or not at all reticulated, pale 
brown or fawn-colour ; altogether much resembling those of L. 
odoratus L. Seeds 2 lines in diam. somewhat compressed and 
angular, perfectly smooth and even, dull blackish, being thickly 
