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28. POMACEJJ. 
half a mile out of Funchal. Rib. cle Joao Gomes, about half- 
way up from the Roxinha to the bridge across its stream in the 
Curral dos Romeiros. Second ravine beyond the W. end of 
the Praia towards Camera de Lobos, and on the W. side of the 
Porto Novo Ravine between Can^o and S ta Cruz, along the 
Levada about 2 miles up, Dr. C. Lemann. FI. Dec.-March, 
mostly Dec., Jan. ; fr. Dec. — A low bushy shr. 3-5 ft. high, 
having somewhat the form or aspect of the Pijrus japonica Ilort. 
( Cydonia Pers., DC., Cliamomeies Lindl.), or still more of the 
Pomegranate ( Panica Granatum L.), with the shining foliage 
and bright-reddish or flame-col. young shoots and 1. of the 
latter. Branches strong stiff woody but rather brittle, with a 
smooth greyish ash-col. bark. L. evergreen coriaceous hard stiff 
and brittle, spathulate or retusely obovate, attenuated into their 
short stalks, faintly or obscurely and remotely crenate, dark 
shining gr. above, pale and slightly glossy beneath, altogether 
smooth, solitary and alternate only on the young shoots, soon 
becoming clustered by development of secondary leaf-buds on 
the spurs and older branches. Stip. extremely minute and in- 
conspicuous, short lanceolate reddish and certainly not decidu- 
ous. FI. white racemose, with a strong disagreeable smell re- 
sembling somewhat that of the ii. of the Barberry (Berberis 
vulgaris L.). Rac. terminal on short lateral leafy shoots or 
spurs along the whole length of the previous 1- or 2-year-old 
branches, 2-4 in. long erect with a few small 1. downwards and 
6-15 fl. on short upright pedic. ; the racliis and pedic. like the 
young shoots and 1. with a few scattered hairs. Pedic. with 
several short subulate reddish minute bracts. Sep. short minute, 
reddish in the bud, downy inside. Pet. rather small roundish 
with a rather long abrupt claw, much crumpled and jagged or 
erose, white, with the claw and a stripe up the outside of each 
(especially in the bud) bright red ; in the expanded ff horizontal 
and remote, being separated by a space as wide as the breadth 
of each pet. Stam. 10-15 inserted in a simple ring close to the 
base of the pet. about halfway down, at first bent in over the 
style, afterwards erect ; fil. white smooth as long as the pet. ; 
anth. large at first pale y., then brownish. Style short; stigma 
subcapitate dilated lobed margined. Ov. obovate downy at top 
fleshy with 2 hard oblong erect ovules close together in the 
centre. Fr. (a JIatd) rarely matured and very long in ripening, 
much resembling that of the common Hawthorn ( Crataegus 
Oxyacantha L.) but a little more oblong or elongated and of a 
rich cream-colour or pale yellowish-white, y in. long, — in. 
broad, oblong-turbinate orglobosely oblong and somewhat pear- 
shaped, flattened or truncate at top with a small hollow in the 
centre which is nearly concealed by the converging dry and 
blackened sop., altogether smooth and shining. Flesh about 
in. thick, mealy insipid but slightly bitter, white when first 
