154 NATIVE COUNTKY OF ARUM CANAKIENSE. 
Paloia, However, they did not pay much attention to it, for when 
working up their materials, it was found in their herbarium without 
specified locality. Bourgeau succeeded in finding the plant again, 
hut instead of recognizing it as a new species, he took it for Arum 
Italictim, Mill. It was growing in Teneritfe, in a cultivated spot, the 
courtyard of the Academy of Lagune, one of those patios which, ac- 
cording to Spanish fashion, are a combination of garden and yard, and 
in this instance full of foreign plants, with hardly a trace of indigenous 
vegetation. In 1852, two years after it had been published, I met 
with the plant in a similar locality, the courtyard of the country house 
of Don Cristobal M. de Lara at La Oliva, situated not in the Laurel 
region of TenerifFe, but the littoral district of the mnch warmer island 
of Fuertaventura. It flowered in April, and here also grew surrounded 
by exotics. 
These clrcuuistances would render it likely that the plant had been 
introduced, and become naturalized in the rich soil in which it was 
found] but in 1856, I had the good fortune to collect it in two other 
localities, which leaves no doubt that it is truly indigenous. The 
season being far advanced, I could collect leaves only, but these proved 
sufficient for the identification of the species. The two localities were — 
1, roadsides, close to the town of Villa de la Orotava, Teneriffe, in 
stony soil; 2, banks of rivulets in the valley of Hermigna, island of 
Goraera, between the village and the forest, growing in great abun- 
dance in company of Comwelyna agraria^ Kth., and being to all appear- 
ances perfectly wild. 
The fact is, Arum Canariense enjoys but a limited range, is one of the 
rarer plants of the Canary Islands, and is partial to good soil such as 
is generally found in the above-mentioned palios. Many additional 
spots where the plant is truly wild, remain doubtless to be discovered. 
That it has not been introduced from abroad is rendered certain by the 
fact that it bears not a Spanish, but Guanche popular name (Taga- 
ragunchej. 
1 know nothing about the occurrence of the plant in^Madeira, re- 
ferred to by Dr. Schott. Perhaps the E.ev. E. Lowe, who knows the flora 
of that island better than any other botanist, might be induced to give 
us some information on that head. In a manuscript list of Madeira 
plants, made by Professor 0. Heer, I find Arum Italicum mentioned 
as growing amongst vineyards, and flowering about the end of March. 
Can this be Ar?i}n Canariense ? 
