400 
44. BTIBIACEJE. 
black blit hoary and shaggy or hirsute all over or at the tip 
with long w. hooked bristles, at first straight, finally sub- 
incurved or horn-like. 
I did not meet with Dr. J. A. Schmidt’s G. filiforme (FI. 
Cap. Verd. 209) in the Cape Verdes, and therefore cannot 
speak with absolute certainty about it : but j udging from nu- 
merous Mad. and Can. spec. I cannot but agree with Webb in 
believing Val. JUiformis Ait. and Chr. Smith’s Laguna (Tene- 
rife) pi. (G. filiforme DC.) to be both identical with Sherardia 
murolis L. ; and I must further observe that Dr. J. A. Schmidt 
mentions no char, in his pi. at all at variance with the belief of 
its identity also with the same. The 1. vary in Mad. spec, 
more or less linear-lanceolate or glabrous even on the same pi. 
Aspera , however objectionable, is a less evil than a new name, 
and may be tolerated like A.spenda, Mirabilis, Impaiiens See. 
Valantia murolis L. and V. hispida L., both much resembling 
A. murolis, should be looked for in P t0 S t0 and the Desertas. 
6. IIubia L. 
ft 
1. It. ANGUSTIFOLIA L. RuivinllO. Madder. 
St. shrubby rampant climbing, the angles upwards very 
rough and harsh like the keel beneath and edges of the 1. with 
strong minute hard reflexed points or prickles ; 1. evergreen 
persistent coriaceous very harsh and rigid shining not reticu- 
late beneath 6-8-nate sessile linear or linear-lanceolate mostly 
0-12 times as long as broad, the nerve and margins above 
mostly more or less rough with forward-leaning points besides 
the reflexed prickles of their keel beneath and edges ; cymes 
on axillary short side-branches many-fld. trichotomous ; fi. 5- 
fid, lobes ovate apiculate or acuminato-aristate ; anthers sub- 
globose, stigmas globose. — Linn. Mant. 39 ; Pers. Syn. 130 ; 
Prot. i. 154 ; Ait. I Tort. Kew. (ed. 2) i. 243; DC. iv. 589. 11. 
peregrina y angustifolia Wh. ii. 187 ; Gren. et Godr. ii. 13. It. 
tinctorum Jluch 195. no. 280 (not Linn.). — Shr. per. Mad. reg. 
3, cc. Woods and wooded banks in ravines everywhere (Rib. 
Frio, da Metade, Serra d’Agua &c.) especially in the north. — 
Apr.-Aug. — Roots long fibrous strong woody, often ns thick as 
the little finger, running extensively but not deep below tin; 
surface, brown outside, dull red within. St. woody but flexi- 
ble round naked simple and pale brown or ash-col. downwards 
and as thick as the little finger, running up bushes and under- 
wood like thin ropes or cords often to the height of 10 or 15 ft., 
much branched upwards and clinging and supporting them- 
