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49. CAMPAXTJLACEiE. 
Had this pi. grown in Italy, it might well be supposed to 
have suggested the idea of the famous golden branch of the 
Cumaean Sybil to the Roman poet : — 
“ Discolor unde auri per ramos aura refulsit, 
Quale solet silvis brumali frigore viscum 
Fronde virere nova quod non sua seminat arbos, 
Et croceo fsetu teretes circumdare truncos. 
Tabs erat species auri frondentis opaca 
Ilice, sic leni crepitabat bractea vento.” 
iEneid. vi. 204-209. 
Nothing can indeed exceed the singularity and splendour of 
a line panicle as it occurs in Mad. on its native rocks, almost 
wholly of a rich golden-y., and shining as if varnished, in full 
contrast with the equally bright shining dark-gr. foliage. The 
whole pi. abounds in a thick viscid mild or tasteless milky 
juice. 
2. M. Wollastoni Lowe. Tanjerao brava at Seixal. 
Shrubby erect furry-pubescent, st. simple or sparingly branched, 
branches thick stout woody and naked downwards ; 1. in ter- 
minal radiant tufts elongate obovate-oblong broadest above 
the middle acute contracted downwards sessile and either ab- 
rupt or subdecurrent at the base, thin flaccid membranous, 
finely sharply and regularly duplicato-serrate, furry -pubescent 
particularly on the nerves and midrib and especially beneath ; 
ti. erect cymose in an elongated pyramidal naked or inconspi- 
cuously leafy-bracteate terminal panicle, cymes 1-3-fl. at the 
ends of the straight stiff horizontal or declining side-branches 
or their subdivisions; br. inconspicuous small lanceolate or li- 
near-lanceolate ; cal. -lobes erect linear-lanceolate much shorter 
than the long linear-ligulate spreading or relieved lobes of the cor. 
— Lowe in llook. J. of Bot. viii. 298; Johns. 1. c. ix. 104; 
BM. t. 5000 (a pale greenisli-y. fi. state or var.). — Shr. per. 
Mad. reg. 6, rr. Dark moist shady banks or glens along the 
Levada in the Rib. da Metade and more plentifully all down 
the Boa Ventura below the Boca das Torrinhas for 2 or 3 
miles, up all the streams descending from the Rico Jorge. 
u Serra de S. Jorge and Rib. do Seixal,” S r Moniz ; “ Ilibeiras 
below the Kncumeada de S. Vicente, Rib. do Inferno, most of 
the Seixal Ravines, and at the Serra d’Agua (Seixal) not more 
than 000 ft. above the sea,” Mr. Mason. Aug., Sept. — A 
remotely or sparingly branched shr. with the habit of Sonchns 
fruticosus L. fil. and foliage of Isoplexis Sceptrum (L.). St. 
often simple and from 2-5 or 0 ft. long, naked with a single 
terminal radiating tuft of 1., at most with only 2 or 3 remote 
