44. RTTBIACEJE. 
388 
(excl. var. /3, p. 157): Bucli! 195. no. 278 (not Linn.! Sp. PL 
ed. 1 nor Herb. Linn. !). G. rotundifolium var. (/lab nan E. 
Bourg. ! PI. Can. no. 831 in Ilerb. Paris, (a remarkably narrow- 
leaved form or perhaps distinct var.). G. ovah folium Schott, 
in Iside (Jena 1818) p. 821. u G. Barrelieri Salzm. Bot. Zeit. 
1821. p. 107.” Bocc. Ic. et Descr. PL Sic. pp. 10, 11. t. (3. 
ff. 1. Moris, iii. § 9. t. 21. f. 5. Barrel. 1c. t. 324. — Per. suffrut. 
5 Lad. reg. 3, |. Dry rocky banks and cliffs in ravines ; Bib. de 
S w Luzia about the Waterfall, Serra d’Agua under Pico 
Grande, &c. June-Aug. — St. 4-angular unarmed or without 
deflexed prickles, per. woody smooth pale brown rounded and 
naked repeatedly branched and trailing or procumbent down- 
wards, with numerous erect or ascending ami. leafy mode- 
rately elongated fl. -branches 1-2 ft. long sprinkled more or less 
thickly with distinct moderately long or short spreading soft 
though stiffish hairs. L. subsessile or with very short ciliato- 
hirtose petioles, of a peculiar shining pale subpellucid gr. and 
thin substance like oiled paper, yet stiff and subcoriaceous, not 
turning black in drying, normally 0-12 lines long and 4-8 lines 
broad but varying often both in size and shape, the upper or 
sometimes all proportionately narrower or elliptic-oblong, all 
except the uppermost mostly obtuse or subobtuse with a small 
abrupt apiculus or leafy mucro, rarely 4-nerved, finely pellu- 
cido-reticulate when held up to the light, very closely and 
minutely puncticulato-granulate, ciliated principally on the 
nerves and edges with quite soft whitish forward-pointing 
hairs, and sometimes also shortly adpresso-pubescent all over 
above, but mostly glabrescent and never villous-hoary. Cymes 
short many-fld., in terminal leafy panicles, and with their more 
or less divaricate, not lax or elongate, capillary divisions almost 
quite smooth. FL 2 lines or 3-4 millim. in diam. Pet. ovate 
shortly apiculate. Fr. dark coffee-brown or black, somewhat 
sparingly or thinly echinulate with soft short hooked whitish 
bristles, globose or globosely reniform, each mericarp shortly 
kidney-shaped and 2 millim. long by 1^ broad or thick. 
Though not described as a Can. pi. in the Phytogr. Can. by 
Webb himself, this precise var. certainly occurs in the Ca- 
naries (Tenerife at Las Mercedes near Laguna, &c., E. Bour- 
geau ex 1 tin. 2 do ). Somewhat more common however in the 
Can. (sent thence by Bourgeau and found bv myself at Barlo- 
vento in the North of Palma and in an intermediate less vil- 
lous-hoary smaller-leaved state at El Golfo in the north of 
Hierro) is Webb’s G. rotundifolium var. villosum ; a pi. not 
hitherto observed in Mad., though in Sir .1. E. Smith’s Herb, 
in the Linn. Society, there is an undoubted spec, (with a pencil 
