brought away several plants, some of which have since 
flowered in Madeira, under the care of Sir J. M. Moniz, and 
other two are now flowering with me here in England. 
“The species belongs to the same group as S. urbicum, 
C. Schm., S. ciliatum, Willd., and S. Haworthii, W. B., ap- 
proaching nearest the two latter and especially the last; but 
it is perfectly distinct from all in habit and from each in 
various other characters. Its name is a just tribute to the 
unwearied zeal of the Baréo do Castello de Paiva in pro- 
moting, both personally and by kind offices towards others, 
the investigation of the botany, malacology, and entomology 
of the Canaries. 
“ Descr. A straggling tortuously branched low shrub, with 
a short erect stem, and long weak, slender, curved or crooked, 
pendently ascending or declining branches, 1-2 feet long, 
which are naked, woody and ashy-greyish downwards, with 
brown leaf-scars, fleshy, glaucous and leafy upwards, emitting 
occasionally aerial, brown, fibrous, pendent roots. Leaves 
highly glaucous, 1-24 inches long, 3-1 inch broad, those of 
the flowering branches thick and fleshy, of the barren thinner 
and finely serrulato-ciliate, the cilia white, short, acute, irre- 
gular and obsolete or wholly evanescent on the older leaves 
and flowering branches. Panicle terminal, ascendently erect, 
6—8 inches long and broad, minutely but thickly glandular- 
pubescent and slightly viscid, leafy; branches subelongate, 
erecto-patent, leafy, ending in forked cymes. Inflorescence 
and flowers (except the squamule and lower halves of ovaries) 
glandular-pubescent. lowers rather large, green, scentless, 
pyramidally conoidal in bud, } inch long, in flower ? inch 
broad. Sepals bright-green, fleshy, ovate, 4 inch long. Petals 
three times the length of the sepals, 34; inch broad, narrow- 
acuminate, erecto-patent, tips recurved and spirally curved or — 
twisted to one side both in bud and flower, pale-green, white 
downwards. Stamens erect or subincurved and connivent, not 
above half the length of the petals; filaments white, gra- 
dually thickened and obcompressed downwards ; anthers pale 
or whitish, retuse, not apiculate. Scales incisor-tooth-like, 
short, transversely oblong, nearly twice as broad as high, recti- 
lineally truncate, with a broad, flat edge, perfectly entire, 
smooth, and shining. Lower half of ovaries smooth, shining, 
upper glandular-pubescent ; styles erect, glandular-pubescent ; 
stigmas recurvedly patent ; the whole white, forming an urceo- 
late or inverted funnel-shaped column, 2-3 the length of 
the stamens.”—R. T. Lowe. 
Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Ovaries. 3. Single carpel :—all magnified. 
