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Church of S. Jorge and descending from the Ilha into the Rib. 
de S. Jorge; plentifully in cornfields &c. all the way up the 
valley above Seixal called the Chao da Ribeira; about the 
Church and Pilgrims’ House at S. Antonio da Serra ; also in 
great luxuriance and abundance round the edges of a pool in 
the middle of the ND. about 100 yds. W. of the ruined house. 
May-Aug. — Wholly smooth. St. quadrangular branching from 
the base, sparingly branched or simple upwards, 9-18 in. long ; 
main st. erect, the branches lying partly fiat the ends ascending, 
reddish on the upper side, flexible or weak and flaccid but pecu- 
liarly tough, and almost woody at the base. L. rather dull gr. 
thickly crowded upwards and fastigiate at the ends of the shoots, 
irregularly alternate, 6-9 lines long, 1-2 broad, more or less lan- 
ceolate, attenuate downwards to the base, more so upwards, all 
quite entire and more or less acute. FI. all up the branches from 
their very base, very small and insignificant pale pink or flesh- 
col., one from each axil, scarcely more than 2 lines long together 
with the very short round ped., or about length of 1. Cal. 
3 millim. or 1£ line long, tube slender 1 millim. broad at top, 
roimded not angular or so strongly ribbed as in L. Grce fieri Ten., 
pale gr. ; the 5 or 6 outer teeth opake herbaceous dark-gr. red 
or purple at the tip narrow linear-lanceolate spreading; the 
alternate inner teeth much shorter broadly ovate membranous 
erect. Pair of bractlets at base of cal. -tube scarcely 1 millim. 
long, membranous very narrow and minute. Pet. obovate 1 line 
long, half as broad. Stam. and style not exserted beyond the 
cal. -tube, the pale whitish anthers being only just visible within 
its throat. Stam. 4-6 inserted opposite the shorter broad mem- 
branous erect inner cal. -teeth, their fil. nearly equal. Style 
1 line long straight round smooth ; stigma capitate. Ov. a little 
compressed smooth the length of the style, 2-celled ; cells with 
many ovules. Caps, as long as or just longer than the cal.- 
tube. 
Brotero’s description applies exceedingly well to the present 
pi. DC. however mentions, 1. c. p. 82, that his syn. is referred 
by Link to L. meonunthum Link — a pi. which I am unable to 
trace out. Steudel also refers Brotero’s syn. to Link’s pi. 
** Stam. twice as many as pet. *. c. about 12. 
2. L. Gii^eff K in Ten. 
St. jrrostrate or procumbent rooting at the base, ultimately elon- 
gated trailing naked and suffrutoscent downwards , /lowering only 
upwards ; 1. alternate crowded sessile or subsessile ligulate or 
linear, rounded or subcordate at the base ; Jl. conspicuous nearly as 
long as the l. ; ped. very short erect in all stages, with a pair 
of minute linear-acuminate bractlets at top ; cal.-tube angular 
