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stip., petioles, rachis, pedic. and calyx becoming in summer 
almost woolly, long and brown or fulvous during inflorescence. 
At other seasons, and especially in winter, it is comparatively 
short and silvery-white. 
A most beautiful shr., occasionally almost ti\, when in fl. and 
covered with its copious bunches of conspicuous fragrant golden 
fl. collected into large thick masses of crowded cymose panicles 
all over the pi. 
At the Passo d’Area between S. Vicente and P ta Delgada 
occurs a form or var. of this sp. with larger lfts. anci more 
slender acuminate or pyramidal 10-15-fld. rac. (like those of 
G. Paivce) produced beyond the 1. : and S r Moniz has met 
with a similar still more developed state of this form up the 
Rib. Grande de S. Jorge near the fossil-leaf-bed, as well as in 
the Arco de S. Jorge and at S. Vicente. Both seem however to 
be mere modifications, from excess of shade or moisture, of the 
normal state, w T ith which in other points they perfectly accord. 
In particular the lfts. are lanceolate acute and distinctly aristate- 
mucronate, the lower lip of cal. is more or less 3-cleft, and in a 
spec, from S r Moniz of the Rib. de S. Jorge pi., though neither 
in the rest nor in my own from the Passo d’Area, the villosity 
of the rac. is distinctly though somewhat pale fulvescent. 
2. G. Paivce Lowe. Piorno. 
Unarmed silvery-greyish leafy ; branches erect stiff virgate 
strongly ribbed but not rugged or knobbed, those of the present 
year with the petioles and rac. hoary with very short close- 
pressed shining silky silvery-white pubescence ; knobs ( pulvini ) 
and stip. obsolete, the latter very short minute and inconspicuous ; 
1. all temate distinctly stalked ; lfts. shortly and broadly obovate 
bluntly rounded or retuse at top and not at all or very indistinctly 
or minutely mucronulate, clothed all over equally like the petioles 
and young branches with short close-pressed silky pubescence ; 
rac. terminal erect produced beyond the l. subelongate slender nar- 
rowly pyramidal or oblong leafless 10-15-fld., in bud attenuate- 
acuminate, in fl. obtuse ; rachis, pedic., cal., keel and pods hoary 
with very short close-pressed silky-white or grey pubescence ; 
lower lip of cal. quite entire. — Shr. per. Mad. reg. 1, r ; G. D. 
reg. 1, rr. Sea-cliffs at P ta do Pargo, ascending from the beach, 
and at Fajaa d’Ovelha ;’also at E. side of G. D. April- June. — A 
bushy leafy shr. 3 or 4 ft. high, of a more or less hoary silvery 
colour, with close thick-set branches and small crowded 1. up- 
wards. Branches erect straight slender ribbed or striated and 
angular, but without the prominent knobs and indurated distinct 
