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14. HYPERICACEiE . 
Styles elongated filiform, as long as tlie stam., united only at 
the base. 
It is remarkable that although H. grandifolium is common 
in the Canaries, yet neither the Canarian H. canariense L. nor 
the equally closely allied Azorian II. foliosum Ait. (distin- 
guished by its crowded 4-ranked finely dotted rather smaller 
1., &c.) are found in Madeira. 
** Shrubby. Sep. unequal. Pet. persistent. Styles 3. 
2. H. FLOREBUNDUM Ait. 
Smooth ; branches round upright ; 1. in four rows ci'owded 
elliptic-lanceolate or pointed at both ends sessile thickly but faintly 
dotted ; cymes rather numerously jlowered ; sep. irregularly or 
minutely serrulate or ciliate shortly ovate or lanceolate acute or 
acuminate very much shorter than the cor. ; styles 3. — Ait. ! 
Hort. Kew. iii. 104 ; Buch ! 196. no. 325 ; DC. i. 544 ? Webbia 
fioribunda Spach in Ann. Sc-i. ser. 2. v. 356 ; WB. ! i. 47. 
t. 4 B. — Shr. per. Mad. reg. 2 ; cc. Dry sunny rocks above and 
near Funchal, Rib. de Joao Gomez, Palmeira, & c., at Ponta de 
Sol, and in the North at Santa Anna, Rib. de S. Jorge, &c., 
where it is sometimes called “Comode Cabra.” July-Oct. — 
A small bushy shrub 2-3 ft. high branched proliferously, with 
stiff erect straight virgate branches leafy only upwards. L. 
crowded somewhat narrow-lanceolate 1-1^- or 2 in. long, 
or \ in. broad rather pale or y.-gr. Pedic. slightly com- 
pressed and dilated upwards. Sep. ovate acute or even some- 
times acuminate, unequal, alternately longer or narrower and 
more lanceolate or acuminate, the shorter more especially very 
minutely ciliate or faintly serrulate, 4 or 5 times shorter than 
the cor. FI. middle-sized bright golden-y. in thickly crowded 
bunches. Pet. persistent concave or cucullate. Styles as long as 
or longer than the stani. Seeds fungose reticulate. — DC.’s de- 
scription seems at least partly (“calyce obtuso” and “fol. im- 
punctatis”) to belong to something else, possibly to Webbia 
canariensis WB., or to W. platysepa/a Spach. The present is 
however the true pi. of the Ilort. Kew. by comparison with 
the original types in BIT. 
3. H. gland dxosum Ait. Malforada , i. e. Milfurada. 
Smooth ; branches round ‘upright ; 1. two-ranked crowded el- 
liptic-lanceolate pointed at both ends sessile thickly and distinctly 
pellucid-dotted and serrulate with black glands', B. crowded in 
short compact close cymes ; br. and sen. lanceolate acute closely 
serrulate with large black glands ; styles 3. — Ait. ! Ilort. Kew. 
iii. 107 ; Buch ! 196. no. 330; DC. i. 551 ; WB. ! i. 44. t. 3.— 
Shr. per. Mad. reg. 2, 3, but chiefly 2 ; cc. Rocks in ravines 
