412 APPENDIX E. 



The Oreodaphne f ceteris of the Canaries and Maderia is now ' 

 referred to the American, Madagascar, and South African genus 

 Ocotea, and is most nearly allied to a species found in the latter 

 country. 



The Maroccan flowering plants are thus grouped by Ball in 

 his ' Spicilegium Maroccanum ' ^ : — 



Total niunber of Maroccan species ...... 1,627 



Species widely diffused, temperate or tropical .... 467 



Of which there are common to Marocco and the Islands . . 300 



Maroccan, but not Insular 167 



Mediterranean species in Marocco ...... 995 



Of which there are widely spread species common to the Islands 



and Marocco 254 



Confined to Marocco and the Islands 15 



Mediterranean species in Marocco, but not in the Islands . . 726 



Maroccan species exclusively ....... 165 



The proportion of Monocotyledons to Dicotyledons is in 

 Marocco 1 to 4'6, in the Canaries 1 to 6 — a very great dif- 

 ference. 



The leading natural orders in Marocco and the Canaries re- 

 spectively are : — 



Composite 



LeguminoSEe 



Graminese . 



Umbelliferse 



Labiatse 



Cruciferas 



Caryophylleas 



In each country these seven natural orders include nearly half 

 the Dicotyledonous plants. But in the Canaries the Crassulacece 

 ■with 31 species should replace the Cruciferae, and the Umbelli- 

 feroB be excluded. 



The natural orders which are indigenous to the three 

 Archipelagos of the Canaries, Madeira, and the Azores, but 

 which are absent in Marocco, and the reverse are : — 



' In Bentham and Hook, f ., Gen. Plant, (vol. iii. ined.), the Lawrinecs 

 are described by Bentham, who has determined, for the first time, the 

 proper position of the Canarian Laurels. 



' Jown. Linn. Soc. Bot. vol. zvi. 



