'IHE VEGETATION OF THE JIAX FERNANDEZ ISLANDS 



Fig. 17. Diagrammatic sketch of a flowering shoot of Dendroseris litoralis cultivated in the 

 Goteborg Botan. Garden. Main a.xis dotted. 



Dendroseris litoralis Skottsb. Only known from Morro Vinillo, a rock off the 

 south coast of Masatierra, and from the coast cliffs of Santa Clara with the barely 

 detached islet Morro del Spartan (or de los Alelfes), PI. 103. To 1.5 — 2 m tall with 

 a main trunk about 10 cm thick. The cultivated plant in Fig. 15 was i i 2 years 

 old and showed no sign to flower; another, 5 years old and illustrated on PI. 19 

 (no. 7, this volume], had flowered for the third time. Bark smooth, bright green 

 and lustrous the first year, then turning brown. In bloom from Nov. -Dec. to 

 Feb. -March. 



Seeds sown 27.3. 1918 gave seedUngs 20.4; sown again (of the same portion) 

 28.3. 1919, the first seedlings were obtained 15.5 (Fig. 19 a). One year old plants 

 match the specimen in Fig. 15. All suftered badly from mildew which frustrated all our 

 efforts to get rid of it, and no specimen lived to. produce flowers. Some years later 

 fresh seeds were sent from Masatierra and numerous new plants raised which, although 

 attacked by the fungus, grew well; one is seen in Fig. 16. It was cut back and in this 

 way induced to branch, the fastgrowing branches supplying cuttings, evidendy an easy 

 mode of propagation in Dendroseris. One cutting, potted in 1936 and transplanted 



