88 Capt. Francis M. Norman on tJie [sess. li, 



in all the upper parts of the island between 2000 and 5000 

 feet, and whose foliage turns into most brilliant crimson tints 

 of every shade, imparting to the hillsides quite a gorgeous 

 appearance ; but chiefly we shall mark the Clethra arhorea, 

 found in woods everywhere in the uplands of the interior, 

 first introduced into England in 1784, and growing, I believe, 

 at the present time in the Botanical Gardens. The native 

 name for Cldhra is " Folhado," and its wood being light and 

 strong, is in great request for hammock poles and such 

 uses. 



The Borcujinaccce furnish two remarkably fine and strong 

 species of Echium, both of which adorn the sea cliffs in 

 spring — viz., ccmdicans or fast icosum, "The Pride of Madeira," 

 and 7iervosum, less showy. 



In the Solanacece I take particular interest, as to it belongs 

 the genus w^hich Mr Low^e did me the honour to name 

 after myself. But I was never fortunate enough to 

 find Xormania triphylla, and the specimen I have came 

 from the Lowe Herbarium, which, as I have mentioned, is 

 at Kew. 



Among the Scrophulariaccce I would ask your particular 

 attention to Isoidcxis sceptrum, one of the handsomest but 

 one of the rarest of mountain treasures. To find it one must 

 penetrate the recesses of the most remote and sometimes 

 difficult and dangerous ravines. It is a shrub with large 

 Gloxinia-like corollas of an orange colour, striped with 

 brown. 



There is a common and pretty Sihthoiyia p)ercgrina, 

 in shape and habit resembling aS*. eiiropcea, but much 

 larger. 



Among the Lahiatm, TJiyrnus micavfi glitters profusely with 

 (jdoriferous glands, but is abundant fudy in three or four hill 

 localities — not universally diirused, like our Scottish wild 

 thyme. 



Siderilis Massoniana is a hoary, velvety Labiate, conniion 

 enough in ravines. I cannot find a notice of it in any of my 

 Ijotanical dictionaries as being known here. Before leaving 

 the Lahiatce, which supplies no less than ten to our list of 

 peculiar plants, let me mention that there are thiee handsome 

 species of Teitcriwm. 



Fiimtbayiriacece shows Armeria maderensis, Madeira thrift, 



