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11. CABYOPHYXLACEiE. 
rac. terminal single elongate, fl. secund alternate adpressed, 
cal. tubular cylindric-oblong 10-striate pubescent, the teeth 
short ovate, pet. small inconspicuous narrow bifid involute ; 
caps, cylindric-elongate contracted at top; carpophore short 
thick. — Brot. ii. 183 ; DC. i. 372 ; 1VB. i. 138. S. nocturna 
and S. mutabilis (L.) Spr. ii. 409. S. vespertina Bourg. ! PI. 
Can. exsicc. in BH. no. 333, “ Lancerottae in cultis ” (not Retz 
nor WB. i. 139). — Herb. ann. Mad. reg. 1. rr; PS. reg. 2, c. 
Cornfields near the Gorgulho and Ponta S. Louren 9 o ; in Porto 
Santo general. April, May. — St. 1-2 ft, high very erect straight 
and stiff. Herbage dull gr. not glaucous or viscid. Pet. scarcely 
longer than the cal., dull smoky-greenish outside, white inside, 
tightly rolled up inwards in the daytime. FI. inodorous at 
least by day, the throat crowned. Var. : 
a. fl. crowded and more numerous. S. nocturna L. 
j3. paucifora Otth. in DC. 1. c. ; fl. remote and fewer, 11 pet. 
smaller.” — S. mutabilis L. ex DC. Cucubalus refexus L. ex BH. 
— This is the common and apparently normal condition of the 
pi. in Porto Santo. But the two forms are scarcely worth 
distinguishing, and are often indeed united on the same pi. 
* * Fl. in loose forked corymbose cymes. ( Atocion Koch ; 
Behenantha, Conoimorpha, Rupifraga &c. Otth. in DC.) 
3. S. inflata Sm. Orellia Boi. 
Glaucous and usually quite smooth ; st. decumbent at the 
base ; 1. oblong-lanceolate or elliptic acuminate ; cyme ter- 
minal dichotomous subcorymbose, fl. drooping; cal. ovate or 
oblong inflated bladdery smooth manv-nerved reticulate, with 
short broad ovate or triangular acute teeth ; pet. deeply cloven, 
either naked and simply bituberculate at the base of the limb, 
or crowned ; caps, short obovate ; carpophore rather long or 
distinct. — DC. i. 368 ; Hook. Fl. Scot. i. 134. — Herb. per. Mad. 
PS. and Dez. nearly throughout the year. Var. : 
a. vulgaris ; quite smooth and glaucous; fl. st. tall erect, 
panicle large lax compound many-flowered, pet. w. or flesh-col. 
not crowned but bituberculate. — S. inf at a a and y Otth. in DC. ; 
Hook. 1. c.; Sm. E. Fl. ii. 292;’ Presl 148; WB. i. 136; 
Koch 112 ; Bab. 46. Cucubalus Bchen (a, L.) EB. 1. 164; Desf. 
i. 347 ; Brot. ii. 180 ; Buch 196. no. 353. — Mad. and PS. reg. 
1, 2, c; GI). r. Borders of cornfields, &c. general. Feb.-June. 
— St. decumbent and leafy at the base, erect and 1-3 ft. high 
when flowering. Fl. generally w. sometimes pale dull pink or 
flesh-col. 
/3. intricate ; smooth light gr. scarcely glaucous ; root-stock 
often woody and st. suffrutescent or slightly woody at the base, 
