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18 nearly or quite the same species as that on which cochineal is tended in Teneriffe ; 

 B6e Lowe FL Madeira, 313-319 ; Brand. For. FL 245-247. Eoxbnrgh states that the 

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Small fleshy shrubs; branches long, terete, or flattened and leaf-like. 

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 produced above the ovary, lobes 3-qo . Petals 6-10, spreading, oblong. Om;y 

 smooth ; style filiform, stigma 3-qo -rayed. Berry globose, smooth ; the pla- 

 centas projecting inwards nearly to the axis. Seeds obovoid ; albumen 0.— 

 DisTRiB. Species 30, confined to Tropical America, except the one species 

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1. R. Ca'ssytha, Gaertn. Finict. 137, t. 28. fig. 1 ; branches round pen- 

 dulous whorled, petals 5-6. DC. Prodr. iii. 476 ; Lodd. Bot, Cab. t. 865 ; Eooli. 

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Ceylox; upon tock^ and trees throughout the Central Province and certainly 

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CalyS'Segments 4-5, acute, very unequal, tinged with red at the h-pex.^ Corolla 

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