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5. CKUCIFERJE. 
fruticosa DC. i. 226. Myagrum scabrosum Buch ! 195. no. 305. 
M. scabridum Sol. ! in BH. — Slir. per. Mad. reg. 2 ; r. Dry 
sunny rocks and cliffs on the S. coast, as on the edge of the 
Cabo Girao or of Pico de Faclio beyond Camera de Lobos; 
more rarely in ravines, as nearly at the bottom of the Curral 
das Freiras down the Voltas on the high rocks to the right of 
the road above the Church. March-July. — A low shrub 2 or 
3 ft. high with stiff fragile straggling crooked branches. L. 
ovate-oblong 1-2 in. long and 1 in. wide. Panicle large co- 
rymbose ; its branches thin stiff and naked ; the fl. white middle- 
sized crowded in dense racemes towards their ends, smelling 
rather disagreeably. Longer hi. often forked or toothed. Fr. 
dark brown the upper seed-bearing joint ovate tipped with the 
style, about a line long, soon and easily falling or separating 
from the short minute stalk-like quadrangular strongly corru- 
gated lower barren j oint. 
/3. bremfolia ; dwarfish stunted, sparingly or not branched ; 
1. short roundish or oval obtuse thick and fleshy toothed but 
nearly simple -with only a pair of very small inconspicuous 
auricles at the base ; panicle scarcely or not at all corymbose, of 
few simple or sparingly divided branches. — Shr. per. Mad. reg. 
1, r; PS. reg. 4, rr; ND. 1, rr; GD. 1, r; SD. 1, Sea cliffs; 
Mad. at Paul do Mar above the 'Waterfall, at Ponta de Pargo 
&c. : Porto Santo on the rocky summit of Pico d’Anna Fer- 
reira. May- July. — Merely the maritime form of a, with all the 
usual variations characteristic of its locality. FI. and fr. rather 
larger than in a. 
The Canarian C. strigosa from authentic specimens in the 
BII. is very distinct in its greater size, large ovate finely toothed 
1. 4 or 5 in. long and 2 or 3 broad, large ample elongated not 
at all corymbose panicle with the fl. thinly scattered, few 
together, and not more than half the size of those of C. fruti- 
cosa. The whole pi. is devoid of hoary fine pubescence, but 
sprinkled with conspicuous long coarse bristles. The greater 
or less development of the tooth of the longer filaments is 
equally variable in both sp. 
23. Baphanus L. 
fffl. B. sativus L. Radish. Rabao. 
Pods oblong rounded tapering acuminate continuous or some- 
times strangulated here and there scarcely longer than their 
stalks spongy and 2-celled within ; seeds reticulato-rugulose. — 
Brot. i. 574; DC. i. 228; WB. i. 84 ; Koch 84. — a. rotunda ; 
root fleshy globose red purple pink or white : It. sativus A. 
