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escaped in Mad. the search of Masson and all other botanists ; 
for, though apprised of its existence “in the neighbourhood of 
the Ice-house ” by an old sportsman in 1826, it is so difficult 
to find, growing in detached solitary bushes not rising higher 
than the dense thickets of Vaccinium in which they lurk and 
are completely buried, that it eluded my repeated search till 
Sept, 1838, when the ripe fi\, making it a little more conspi- 
cuous, first betrayed it. 
On the whole, and considering the possibility of its having 
merely eluded observation hitherto in other localities also, I 
am drawn to the conclusion that this form or var. of Mountain 
Ash is really indigenous, and not a mere recent modification of 
the introduced British or European pi. 
3. Cydonia (Pers.) Lindl. 
ft 1. C. vulgaris Pers. Quince. Marmeleiro. 
L. ovate or oval, obtuse at the base, abruptly acute, quite 
entire, tomentose beneath ; fi. solitary subsessile ; cal. and glo- 
bosely pearshaped fr. tomentose. — Pers. Encli. ii. 40 ; DC. ii. 638. 
Pyrus Cydonia Linn., Desf. i. 397 ; Brot. ii. 330. 
y. oblonya Mill., DC. 1. c. ; 1. oval or oblong; fr. subglobose. — 
Shr. or low tr. per. Mad. reg. 2, In gardens cult, here and 
there, and quite naturalized in abundance on open hill-sides 
about S. Antonio near Funchal, particularly across the valley to 
the S.W. of the Church. FI. April, May ; fr. Sept. — Mostly a low 
bush 3-8 ft. high, with numerous slender tough flexible twig- 
like branches much used for riding-switches, smooth and 
shining downwards, tomentose towards the ends. L. on short 
footstalks, quite entire, very soft when young and tomentose ; 
afterwards somewhat hard or stiff' and naked or smooth above. 
FI. large white, more or less rose or blush. Sep. glandular- 
serrulate. Fr. irregularly globose or short and thick, more or 
less knobbed, of a uniform golden-y., austere hard and un- 
eatable -with a slight garlic taste, but very fragrant, and making 
a delicious marmalade, which is in particular request amongst 
the Portuguese, especially as a remedy in colds and sorethroats. 
Order XXIX. Gil AN AT ACEiE . 
FI. perfect regular. Cal. coriaceous, tube turbinate adherent 
to ov., lobes 5-7, valvate. Pet. 5-7. Style 1, stigma capitate. 
Stam. indefinite free. Fr. (a balaust ) coated by the cal. -tube 
and crowned by its lobes, indehiscent or bursting irregularly, 
internally cellular, divided by a horizontal diaphragm into two 
unequal stories, the upper 5-9-celled, lower 3-celled, the divi- 
