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Cabrita at tlie bead of the Serra de Dentro in Porto Santo. Apr.- 
June. — A most variable pi. in size and characters. Root fleshy 
tuberous. L. chiefly radical of a somewhat dull leaden-gr., 
fleshy soft and flaccid, more or less deeply and widely crenate, 
1-lf in. in diam., round or roundish-reniform, mostly peltate 
and more or less concave and umbilicate or even funnel-shaped, 
sometimes rounded or orbicular-cordate and cut down to the 
always long round fleshy footstalk. Stem-1, broadly obovate 
or spathulate, the upper sessile. Fl.-st. single 2-12 or even 
18 in. high, stiffly erect and straight. Rac. either simple con- 
stituting var. /3. peltatus DC. 1. c., or in finer pi. more frequently 
branched below with upright or adpressed branchiets : but these 
are forms dependent merely on the greater or less luxuriance of 
the pi. FI. pentamerous small and inconspicuous of a pale dull 
greenish-y. very numerous in long erect leafy rac. crowded up- 
wards, interspersed with sessile leafy deciduous lanceolate oblong 
or linear bracts, which are mostly entire but sometimes crenate- 
toothed. Tube of cor. oblong or slightly barrel-shaped about 
4 times as long as the short ovate acute sep. and about twice 
as long as broad; lobes straight erect broadly half-ovate and 
acute or subcordate and apiculate, about length of tube. 
Stam. 10 in a double row, short, all included. The fl., espe- 
cially the lower, are usually pendulous, but the upper and some- 
times all nearly or quite erect ; the length of their pedicels being 
very variable. The lower 1. and br. mostly wither and disappear 
before the expansion of the upper fl. of the rac. Varr. : 
a. fl. distinctly stalked and pendulous. — U. pendulinus DC. 
&c., 1. c. 
3. fl. nearly sessile spreading or erect. — U. horizontal is DC. 1. c. 
( Cotyledon horizontal u Guss., Ten.)? Schmidt Fl. Cap. Verd. 
258. — A not uncommon but trifling and quite inconstant aber- 
ration from the normal state a, by no means worth recording as 
a distinct var. Plants of it, possessing the further charac- 
teristics of more deeply cut less peltate 1. and without a tuber- 
ous root, growing abundantly on dry rocks near the Waterfall 
at the head of the Rib. de S ta Luzia, acquired within six weeks 
when planted in my garden at the Valle, Funchal, a large tu- 
berous root and drooping fl. : nothing but the 1. remaining to 
distinguish them from the ordinary state a. of the species. The 
Portalegre and Marvao chestnut-wood var. prcealta mentioned 
by Brot. 1. c. p. 204, Obs. 1, needs investigation, but was more 
probablv this state of the sp. than, as Webb surmises, U. Intern 
(Huds.). 
