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23. RHAMNACEiE. 
sometimes 0. Stam. 5-4 opposite the pet. and alternate with the 
sep., inserted with the pet. Ov. tree or adnate downwards 
with the cal., surrounded by a glandular disk, mostly 3-, rarely 
2-4-celled; cells 1-seeded, oyules erect. Fr. fleshy and berry- 
like 2-4-celled and seeded, or diy and capsular splitting into 
three. Seeds solitary in each cell erect without an aril ; albu- 
men fleshy or 0 ; embryo straight long ; radicle short : cot. flat. 
— Tr. or shr. often spiny, with alternate simple 1. and small stip. 
FI. greenish small scentless. 
1. Rhamntjs. Cal. 4-5-cleft, its base persistent and adnate 
to the fr. Pet. inserted with the stam. on the edge of the 
cal.-tube. Fr. fleshy berry-like, 2-4-celled, 2-4-seeded. 
1. Rhamnus L. 
Buckthorn. 
* Alaternus Tournef., DC. Unarmed, branches alternate, 
leaves evergreen coriaceous, style 2-3-Jid. 
1. R. glandulosa Ait. Sanguinho. 
L. broadly oyal or oblong-oyal obtusely serrulate, the axils 
of the 2 or 3 lowest veins glandular-bullate or blistered; fl. 
hermaphrodite in short erect few-fld. axillary racemes; fr. 
smooth shining. — Ait. Hort. Kew. (ed. 1) 1. 265 ; Vent. Malm, 
t. 34 ; Buch 198. no. 423 ; DC. ii. 23 ; Spr. i. 769 ; TVB. ! ii. 132. 
— Tr. per. Mad. reg. 2 ; rr. Rib. do Seixal, plentifully in the 
thicket on each side of the road nearly at the bottom of the 
Voltas or descent from the Cruzinhas to the Chao da Ribeira, 
a little before crossing the dry bed of the torrent : about the 
Furada along the Levada between the Lamaceiros and Rib. 
Frio. In gardens occasionally, at the Palmeira, the Mount, 
Camacha, &c. cult. Fl. March, April; fr. June. — A small tree 
15-25 ft. high with a straight trunk 4 or 5 in. diam. covered 
with a greyish bark, with a pyramidal or bushy head of shin- 
ing dark gr. foliage. Young shoots, leaves and petioles sub- 
pubescent. L. when adult smooth and shining, 1^-3 in. long, 
1-2 in. broad, obtuse or slightly pointed, always rounded at 
the base, shortly stalked, still' and rigid, becoming often almost 
boatshaped with the edges strongly recurved, evenly and bluntly 
serrulate, with mostly 2 or 3 rarely 4 little wart-like blebs 
towards the base, convex above, opening beneath by a minute 
pit or pore and hairy within, one in each axil of the 2-4 
lower nerves. Stip. narrow small deciduous. Fl. small, rather 
bright y.-gr., in snort stilf bunches scarcely longer than the 
prtioles in the axils of the upper 1. ; rachis and pedic. angular 
short and thick velvety-pubescent. Sep. and pet. rather thick 
