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or 4-5 or 6, rarely in pairs, 1-1| in. long, 2-3 lines wide, 
strongly and distinctly cuspidate. Fed. mostly 2-fld. and some- 
what crowded upwards. FI. rather smaller than in L. Clyme- 
num L. and more compact. Style pubescent above upwards and 
rhomboidal-pointed. Pod 2 in. long, 1 in. broad, beaded or arti- 
culated as it were on the sides by the prominence laterally of 
the seeds, and with both the margins slightly waved or strangu- 
late between the seeds, the dorsal or seed-bearing suture thick 
and tumid, not winged or channeled, reddish-brown or tile- 
colour. Seeds dull dark smoky brown mottled and streaked 
with black, appearing velvety but perfectly smooth q,nd even, 
larger few'er more remote and flattened than in L. Clymenum L., 
3 lines long X 2^ wide, oblong-quadrangular tumid compressed 
subcarinate. Subvarr. : 
1. atropurpurea) standard dark claret-purple. P t0 S t0 cult, 
and here and there naturalized. 
2. rosea ; standard rose. PS. in a little thicket of White 
Poplars by the unfinished Church of N. S. daGra 9 a; GB. up the 
central valley. — BM. t. 253 ; Desf., Brot., WB. ? 11. cc. 
Nearly allied to L. Clymenum L., but certainly distinct. It 
is altogether more dwarfish and robust in habit, with much 
stouter shorter st., not slender elongate rampant branched or 
straggling, shorter broader stiffer distinctly cuspidate lfts., 
shorter ped., smaller more compact fl. with a less dilated or ex- 
panded standard and almost always in pairs, few r er- more re- 
motely-seeded pods, which are strongly knobbed or beaded at 
the sides, and slightly waved at the edges by the prominent large 
flattened seeds, winch are much larger than in L. Clymenum L. 
There are no spec., Mr. Carruthers assures me, from either 
Webb or Bourgeau of L. articulatus L. in BH. In Till. Mr. Black 
tells me there is only a spec, marked u Canaries, Despreaux/' 
which has been named by Planchon “ L. Clymenum L.,” and 
one sent by Bourgeau for L. Clymenum L., but w r hich is cer- 
tainly L. tinyitanus L. Hence it is very doubtful whether L. 
articulatus WB. 1. c. collected by Despreaux iii Gr. Canary was 
really the true pi. Certainly I have never met with it in any 
of the Islands. 
tf9. L. Ocmtus (L.) 
Quite smooth glaucous sparingly branched procumbent or dif- 
fuse ; branches zigzag stout slightly climbing by the tendrils of 
the upper 1. 4-sided broadly winged ; leafstalks broadly winged, 
the lower leafless, the upper with 2-4 ovate or oval mucronate 
