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produced copiously all over the pi. about an inch in length and 
more in breadth. Br. quite distinct or separate very variable 
in shape and breadth, all sometimes ovate or oval sometimes 
elliptical or lanceolate, often in the same fl. either ovate or 
narrow-lanceolate. Pet. bright purplish rose or deep full pink, 
wedgeshaped, their claw with a large tuft or thick fringe of 
hairs on each side. 
Differs from 31. sylvestris L. in its smaller size, more pro- 
cumbent or diffuse or even prostrate habit, smooth petioles and 
pedicels, obtusely and fewer (only 5-) lobed 1., larger brighter 
or richer and deeper coloured fl. which are also rarely more than 
3 together, shorter pedic. (scarcely the length of the fl.*), longer 
pet., narrow and more distant outer sep., larger fr. and thickly 
pubescent immarginate distinctly cancellated carpels. The fl. 
are of a fuller richer colour ; not however brighter though per- 
haps deeper pink than as represented in 31. sylvestris L. EB. 
t. 371, yet not deep red or “ sanguineous” as in the original 
Linmean spec, or as in the pi. described by Koch, p. 142 : of 
which however the Madeiran pi. can be considered merely a less 
robust pale-flowered state or var. 
In the Banks. Herb, there are only two Madeiran specimens 
of 31alva ; both collected in Madeira by Banks and Sol., one 
marked by Solander himself 31. mciuritiana L., the other M. ro- 
tundifolia L. The first of these is in its present state quite in- 
determinable, though there is nothing against its being cor- 
rectly named : the 2nd, after long and careful examination I 
am quite satisfied is also exactly the same pi., possessing none 
of the really distinctive characters of 31. rotundifolici L., though 
it is undoubtedly the original type of 31 rotundifolia of Von 
Buch’s list of Madeiran pi. It has indeed the pet. only 3 times 
the length of the cal. in the only remaining imperfectly ex- 
panded fl. ; but on the other hand the sep. close in over the fr., 
as in 31. mauritiana L., instead of standing erect or lying open 
as in 31. rotundifolia L. The 3 involucral bracts are lanceolate 
and distant from each other. The fr. is densely strigose-pu- 
bescent or hirsute instead of softly and shortly velvety, with the 
surface of the carpels obviously rugose across or irregularly 
cancellated beneath the close-set short whitish stiff pubescence ; 
but their edges are not toothed or raised. Lastly, the central 
disk is small, instead of large as in the true 31. rotundifolia L. 
(EB. t. 1092) : a pi. not existing so far as I have observed in 
Madeira, though included in Holl’s List ; which contains how- 
ever neither 31. parviflora nor 31. mauritiana L. 
