300 
35. PARONYCHIACEJ2. 
Mad., has neither been observed in the Azores, the Canaries, or 
Cape de Verdes, nor even in the neighbouring islands of Porto 
Santo or the Desertas. 
III. cymosum, no. 149 of Yon Buch’s Mad. Catalogue, is a mistake, 
originating from some Mad. specimens in the BH., formerly 
marked I. cymosum , but which are certainly Paronychia echi- 
nata (Desf.). 
3. Paronychia Juss. 
1. P. ECHINATA Lam. 
St. diffuse or spreading sometimes prostrate or erect not much 
branched often simple; branches knotted or jointed puberulous 
on one side ; 1. elliptic or oblong-lanceolate mucronate minutely 
punctulate smooth finely serrulato-ciliate ; fi. in axillary crowd- 
ed subconfluent tufts somewhat secund ; cal. glandular-stri- 
gose at the base ; awns of sep. rather short slightly divaricate. 
— DC. iii. 370 ; WB. i. 162. Illecebrum echinatum Desf. i. 204 ; 
Brot. i. 302 ; Brot. Phyt. Lusit. i. 49. t. 22. f. 1. Illecebrum 
cymosum and III. Paronychia Bucli ! 192. nos. 149, 150 (not 
Linn.). — Herb. ann. Mad. reg. 1, 2, c. Sunny dry open hills 
amongst grass near the sea along the Cani^o road a mile out 
of Funchal ; W. bank of the Rib. de Joa5 Gomes above the 
Valle ; Curral das Freiras, &c. Apr.-July. — An inconspicuous 
pi. with somewhat the habit of Polygonum aviculare L. though 
usually more erect. Root small fibrous whitish. St. more or 
less erect, always so at the base, mostly simple or dividing near 
the base into only 2 or 3 stiffish spreading branches 3-6 in. long, 
mostly red, clothed along one side with very short white de- 
flexed minute pubescence. Foliage pale gr. turning black in 
drying. L. in pairs or presently fasciculate at the knots of the 
st., pointed at each end with a very short ?nucro, of a tliickish 
substance, finely and closely punctate and crystalline-dotted, 
the margins ciliate with very short remote bristles or hairs 
pointing forwards, otherwise quite smooth. Slip, short narrow 
ovate or lanceolate quite entire finely taper-pointed or acumi- 
nate whitish membranous. FI. small sessile in axillary gr. or 
reddish tufts. Cal. urceolate, the base swollen and densely 
clothed with short hooked or glandular hairs or bristles ; awns 
of sep. simple slender setaceous moderately long slightly diva- 
ricate, subcucullate or with indexed membranous borders at 
their base. Bracts lanceolate membranous whitish shorter than 
the fl. Pet. or scales none. Stam. 5 all perfect. Style one 
simple truncate and notched at the top. Ov. and caps. 1 -seeded 
clotned with very short pubescence. Seed globose smooth 
shining. 
