396 The Rev. R. T. Lowz on Chamemeles coriacea 
By a misapprehension, easily accounted for, it has been stated 
that this plant is called **.Buao" in Madeira. It is not uncommon 
here, as perhaps elsewhere, with a countryman when hard pressed 
for a name, to conceal his ignorance by coining an extempore 
one for the occasion; or rather, possibly, by taking the first 
that occurs of some similar object or plant. In the case of the 
present plant, it is therefore probable that some countryman 
who was applied to for its Portuguese name, misled by a fancied 
resemblance, really mistook it for the Buao; which, as any 
common Portuguese Dictionary will confirm, is the common 
garden Box (Buzus sempervirens). Misled myself by the above 
statement given in DeCandolle's Prodromus, on my first arrival 
here I made all possible inquiry after the Buro of Madeira; 
and the result of every requisition for a supply, never failed to 
be a huge bunch of common Box, or Buxus sempervirens, pro- 
cured from some garden, of all which in Madeira it is a favourite 
and constant inmate. Various disappointments of this sort 
confirmed a suspicion, entertained from the first, of the impro- 
bability that the common and well-known name Buzo (Anglice 
Box) should be properly applied, peculiarly and par excellence, 
to another quite different plant. These ideas have been since 
strengthened to certainty, since my discovery of the true Chame- 
oriaced, by the assurance that it is not at all known or 
ui shed by any particular common name here : and indeed 
the plant i is far too rare and unimportant as far as. regards prac- 
tical utility, to render it probable it should have obtained one. 
Among the few plants of much importance in their domestic 
uses peculiar to Madeira, Sempervivum glutinosum, or Ensaiüo 
as it is called by the country-people (pronounced In-say-oung or 
En-sai-yound), is distinguished for the use made of it by fisher- 
men in pre: z their lines. This species, belonging to a 
genus which pe ulia rly characterizes the xegstation of this island 
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