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27. ROSACEA. 
stated to be the remains of a tr. full 20 ft. high and with a 
trunk as thick as a man’s thigh. This tr. had been accidentally 
broken down some years previously, owing to its extreme fra- 
gility ; and all that remained were shoots from the old stock or 
root, forming a large spreading straggling bush with remarkably 
brittle branches, snapping short off with the slightest force, and 
of a dry quite woody substance, but with a large pithy cavity 
inside. This individual still (1861) exists, growing close below 
the upper boundary wall of the Quinta de Prazer, dividing it 
from the Q. do Bello Monte above. 
Female pi . — Rocks in the Curral das Freiras, April, May, 
1861 ; brought by a countryman to Sr. Moniz, from whom I 
have received excellent dried spec. — Habit exactly of the male 
pi., but in these ex. much less hirsute or rather merely sub- 
pubescent ; the upper surface of lfts., sep., and fr. quite smooth. 
L. odd-pinnate stalked, 3 or 4 in. long. Lfts. in mostly 4 or 5 
pairs, ovate- or elliptic-oblong acute, sharply strongly and re- 
gularly senate, quite smooth above, pale or subglaucous beneath 
and pubescent like their petiol. and rachis, ^-1 in. long, half as 
broad. Stip. with small irregular leafy lacerate or laciniat epitmce 
or lfts. Rac. axillary in the terminal bunches of 1., slender, 
slightly drooping, 3-4 in. long, a little shorter than the 1., 
stalked, sparingly branched or compound at the base. FI. distinct 
numerous but not crowded, nearly or quite sessile, Bractlets 
3 ovate or lanceolate acuminate membranous puberulous per- 
sistent, nearly or quite half as long as the fr. Cal. -tube 1^ line 
long, half as broad, elliptic-oblong subquadrangular (the angles 
presently obliterated) perfectly smooth and even. Sep. about 
half the length of cal. -tube, broadly oval or oval-oblong, gr. 
with thin pale edges, subpersistent smooth. Stigmas 3 forming 
a short thick (in these dried spec, pale brown) tuft about half 
the length of sep. Fr. resembling a very small young goose- 
berry, reddish or purplish-brown globosely turbinate, approach- 
ing more or less to oval or elliptic, fleshy, hard or firm, quite 
smooth and even, about 2 lines long and half as broad, mostly 
crowned by the persistent spreading or reflexed sep. and con- 
taining 2 or mostly 3 carpels or ach., each enclosing one brown 
seed. 
In BM. t. 2341 the stigmas are bright crimson, and the 3 
styles are much longer and more distinct than in my dried spec., 
which are however all rather in fr. than fl. 
The claim of this pi. to be regarded as indigenous to Mad. 
remained until very lately unsupported by any direct evidence. 
It was first discovered by Masson in Tenerife, where it is now 
