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part to neither. The pi. appears to he confined to the above 
locality. In fl. throughout the year. — An insignificant little 
shr. not above 12-18 in. high with few straight straggling tough 
and stiffish branches sprinkled like the whole pi. with rather 
long shining whitish or tawny golden very close-pressed starry 
4-rayed or forked hairs, one fork or pair of the rays directed up- 
wards, the other downwards, like a St. Andrew’s cross or hour- 
glass. L. bright full gr. broadish 1-1^- or 2 in. long and f— 1 
or i in. broad, the lower ovate broader and shorter, the upper 
oblong-lanceolate narrower and longer. Fl. small bright uni- 
form golden y. the lower mostly solitary but the uppermost 
often 2-4 together in little heads or short upright rac. , The fr. 
of this Madeiran pi., on which S. carpinifolia L. fil. was origin- 
ally founded, agrees accurately with DeCandolle’s description 
of that of his S. carpinoides. 
A glance at Cavanilles’ figure (t. 21. f. 3) of his Malva sub - 
hastata sufficiently explains Herr Soil’s mistake and verifies his 
syn. The leaves indeed of M. subhastata in the above fig. much 
resemble in shape those of S. carpinifolia L. 
Probably introduced into Madeira from Brazil, where it is one 
of the commonest weeds. 
f2. S. rhombifolia L. Chci Ingleza. 
A low shr. free from hairs but clothed with very short and 
close mealy-looking starry pubescence ; 1. shortly petioled lan- 
ceolate or narrow-oblong serrate, thickly pubescent and pale or 
glaucous-hoary beneath, smoother above ; stip. linear-setaceous 
erect ; pedimc. 1-flowered axillary solitary, aggregate at the 
ends of the branches, elongated about as long as the leaves and 
distinctly jointed ; fr. smooth, carpels 7-12, 1-2-rostrate. Var. : 
a. maderensis ; carpels 1-rostrate. — S. maderensis Prim. 35, 36. 
S. rhombifolia WB. l. 36. Malvinda unicornis &c. Dillen. TIort. 
Eltham. 216. t. 172. f. 212. — Mad. reg. 1, 2 ; ccc. 
/3. canariensis ; carpels 2-rostrate. — S. rhombifolia (L.) Cav. 
Diss. 1. 23. t. 3. f. 12 and S. alba 22. t. 3. f. 8 (not Linn.). 
S. canariensis (W.) and S. rhombifolia (L.) a (not /3 ex icon. cit. 
Cav.) I)C. i. 462; Spr. iii. 111. — Mad. reg. 1; r. 
Shr. per. Mad. Roadsides and dry waste ground in hot 
sunny places everywhere along the S. coast chiefly. Through- 
out the year. — A small shr. with slender stiff straight often 
elongated simple rounded branches 1-2 ft. long very tough and 
strong or wiry, hence used occasionally for making small brooms 
or besoms. Whole plant appearing smooth or merely powdery, 
but really more or less densely starry-pubescent in all its parts. 
L. dull gr., more or less wdntish or greyish beneath, 1-2 in. 
