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two. FI. in several aggregate somewhat branched or com- 
pound mostly drooping or nodding rac. or racemose panicles, 
from large terminal imbricated buds, bell-shaped elegant and 
highly fragrant like a mixture of Orange and Barberry fl., 
cream-coloured or yellowish-white, smaller but somewhat like 
a bunch of snowdrops. Racemes short sometimes simple but 
mostly branched at the base and with several terminal fl. or 
umbellate, often slightly drooping sometimes erect, 1-2 in. long. 
Pedic. £ in. long bracteate both at the base and often higher up. 
Br. oblong membranous ; those of the lower fl. reflexe^ green 
and leafy deciduous ; of the upper smaller narrower or linear- 
oblong and more permanent. Racliis of rac. pedic. br. and cal. 
all more or less clothed or fringed with close ferruginous velvety 
pubescence. Sep. ovate-oblong rather obtuse not quite half the 
length of the tube-like straight part of the campanulate cor. 
Pet. nearly \ in. long of a thickish leathery substance slightly 
pubescent outside, their claw or lower half straight, limb obtuse 
recurved or curling back. Stam. not reaching beyond the 
throat ; fil. thick smooth white ; anth. erect oblong. Ov. oblong 
pubescent, attenuated upwards into the thickish style which is 
scarcely longer than the stam. and crowned by the abrupt 
subcapitate gr. stigmas. — From Quinta da Cova trees trans- 
planted from their native rocks. — Caps, (from Masson’s orig. 
Mad. spec, in BH.) large, | in. long and nearly as broad, roundish- 
ovate or oval, apiculate with the short hardened base of the 
style, rusty-brown, curiously vermiculato-verruculate or sinu- 
ato-rugulose, only 2-valved in the specimen ; but this is fre- 
quently the case by abortion in other species. 
The Portuguese name Moquino is doubtless a mistake or mis- 
nomer for Mocaa or Mocano, which at Seisal is properly the 
name of Visnea Mocanera L. fil. — a discovery due to the accu- 
rately discriminating eye of S r J. M. Moniz, who in the summer 
of 1856 first found and distinguished the last-named pi. grow- 
ing on its native rocks at Seisal, from Catha or Celastrus cas- 
sinoides Herit., which it very much resembles : thus at once 
clearing away all confusion about two sorts Of Moquino or 
Mocano in Madeira, of which I had some evidence, and making 
the interesting addition to the indigenous Madeiran Flora of 
another properly Canarian tree. On the other hand, it may be 
doubted whether Pittosporum coriaceum Ait. is really an indi- 
genous Canarian ph, though described as such by Webb ; M. 
Bourgeau, formerly Mr. Webb’s Canarian collector, assuring me 
that he had not been able to discover it in any of the islands, 
though he had often searched in the exact spot in Teneriffe 
