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cyanin — though never so bright red as H. erecta — , the leaves are narrower, 

 the fruit only slightly tetragonous and mostly without a trace of wings, see 

 fig. 18 g — p. Fruits from both numbers were sown in the Gothenburg Garden 

 and yielded numerous plants; at present I have 13 specimens of no. 457 and 

 32 of no. 442 in cultivation. The latter are exactly like the mother plant, but 

 the former are unlike no. 457 and habitually very like no. 442. Still, small 

 wings develop in many fruits as in the mother plant, but not so regularly. I 

 suppose the difference in vegetative characters is due to external conditions, 

 but it is less probable that these should influence the development of wings. 



H. asperrima is very near H. erecta, but this is less scabrous and the 

 leaves are nearly smooth, especially the margin, which, in H. asperrima, is 

 thickly beset with microscopic aculei. The stigma-papillae are mostly 2-celled 

 and the fruit 3,5 — 4 mm long in erecta. 



Area of distribution: Endemic in Masafuera. 



84. H. masatierrana nov. spec. — H. alata (erecta), Johow, Estud. 97, 

 SKOTTSBERG, Stud. 10, non Murr. nee Jacq.; SCHINDLER in Pflanzenreich p. p. 

 — Fig- 19- 



Fi°\ 19. Halorrhagis masatierrana: a two lower, b three upper leaves, nat. size; c flower on 

 male and d on female stage, X 6,6; e sepal and f petal, X 20; g fruits of no. 304, h of Johow 



no. 6, all X 6,6. 



Suffrutex 2 — 5 dm altus, glaber, laevissimus, fere a basi opposite ramosus. 

 Rami cylindraceo-tetragoni, longitudinaliter 4-lineati, cortice ± rufescente. Folia 

 omnia opposita vel superiora florigera alternantia, discoloria, supra laete 

 viridia, subtus glaucescentia, inferiorum lamina ovata, acuta, basi late cuneata, 

 petiolo 3-8 mm longo suffulta, plerumque 15—30 mm longa et 9— 14 mm lata, 



