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inconspicuous small pale rose or flesh-col.. mostly rather smaller 
than in Brit, or Canar. ex., but sometimes as large or with pet. 
reaching l|-2 lines beyond tips of sep. Stigmas even in the 
bud distinctly 4, in the open 11. spreading. Caps, subpubescent 
2 in. long, with the valves strongly recurved when ripe. 
E. montanum b. pubescens Raddi Obs. in Antol. ii. (Florence 
1821) was most probably the present pi., the true E. montanum 
L. not having occurred in Mad. to any other botanist, and 
Raddi’s List of Mad. sp. being most incorrect in its nomencla- 
ture throughout. 
2. E. lance olatum Sebast. et Maur. 
Finely pubescent but appearing nearly or quite smooth ; st. 
slender erect simple or branched only upwards, round or very 
obscurely angular, minutely pubescent ; 1. distinctly stalked shining 
oblong-lanceolate leedge-shaped or narrowed at the base into the 
footstalk, entire downwards, sharply and distinctly but subre- 
motely or irregularly toothed or serrulate upwards ; top of rac. 
drooping in the bud', fl. -buds ovoid mamillate ; sep. lanceolate 
simply acute; seeds minutely granulate obovate-oblong sub- 
acute at base. — Sebast. et Maur. u Fl. Rom. Prodr. 138. t.l.f.2;” 
Koch 1022; EBS. t. 2935; Bab. (ed. 4) 117. E. montanum 
Lcmann ! Herb. Mad. (not Linn.). — Herb. per. Mad. reg. 2, rrr. 
“ Curral das Freiras, Dec.,” Dr. C. Lemann. — A slender delicate 
pi. 10 or 12 in. high, smooth to the naked eye, with small re- 
mote narrow 1. St. slender finely pubescent erect. L. appear- 
ing to the naked eye quite smooth, very shortly though dis- 
tinctly stalked, narrow-lanceolate and narrowing gradually into 
the short footstalk at their base, sharply and distinctly though 
remotely serrulate upwards. Buds and ii. none in spec. Caps, 
(nearly ripe in spec.) 2 in. long linear fine and slender. Seed 
(not quite ripe) iinely tuberculate blunt at top, a little pointed 
at bottom. (From Lemann’s single Mad. spec.) 
My attention was first drawn to this as a Mad. pi. by a pencil 
note — “ E. montanum L. (Curral das Freiras, Dec., Lemann)” 
— written by the late Dr. Charles Lemann in my MS. Catalogue 
of Mad. pi. lent to him in August 1848 for the completion of 
his own list. On referring to his Herbarium at Cambridge 
through the kind offices of Prof. Babington, 1 found (and de- 
scribed) the spec, to which lie thus referred, named as above in 
his own handwriting, with the word “ roseum" in pencil ap- 
pended by Mr. Bontham to its label. I concur however in 
Prof. Babington ’s opinion that it is E. lanceolatum Sebast., 
though in Dec. 1858 I searched in vain for it in the Curral 
das Freiras, and could find nothing but E. tetragonum L. In 
