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smooth ; involucral bi\ linear smooth ; sep. smooth closing 
at first tightly over the smooth even capsules, presently 
becoming erect or patent and quite exposing the fr. Car- 
pels (unripe) not toothed or margined, but when ripe 
strongly and sharply reticulato-cancellate, with the mar- 
gins raised but entire, quite smooth ; central disk small. 
— S ta Cruz, a single pi. on a paved terrace in front of an 
old house on the left hand up a steep narrow street or 
road a little above the church (Torreiro da casa da S a 
Yittorina, no sitio da Rochinha) . Feb r. -May. First ob- 
served by S r J. M. Moniz, Febr. 1865. At the^ end of 
Apr. 1865 I found it still in fl. and fr., growing luxu- 
riantly ; but I could find no other pi. like it, either in its 
immediate vicinity or elsewhere in S ta Cruz ; though in 
all places, as well as growing with it, there was abun- 
dance of normal M. parviflora L. /3, of which it was 
doubtless a mere transient or accidental individual form. 
In April 1868 I could find no trace of it either on the 
spot or elsewhere. 
66 after line 16, before “ 2. M. mauritiana L.” insert : 
1 bis. M. Nicleensis All. 
“ Tolerably common about the Grorgulho, Casa branca and Rib. 
Seco fields, March 1865. I find that the two characters which are 
constant as marks of distinction from M. parviflora L. are the ovate 
or ovate-lanceolate involucral bracts and the size of the corolla, 
which is always distinctly larger than in that pi.” (Capt. F. M. 
Norman R.N. in litt. March 23, 1865). 
The following description was taken from fresh spec, sent to me 
at Seixal with the above remarks : — 
Pale gr. liirtosely starry-pubescent ; st. stout spreading prostrate 
or ascending ; 1. subreniform or broadly roundish-heart-shaped with 
5 or 7 shallow obtuse or rounded crenat Q-toothed lobes, on long 
sparingly hirtose petioles which are often on the upperside tliickly 
pubescent ; stip. large ovate or subcordate smooth with only the 
edges ciliato-hirtose. Fl. moderately large and conspicuous, rather 
shortly but distinctly stalked in axillary clusters of 1-3 (mostly 3) 
together, the pedic. 2-3 (in fr. 4-6) lines long, erect in all stages ; 
pet. 2-2^ length of cal. (say fully twice the length), ligulate-oblong, 
widely or distinctly notched, rose-purple with 3 darker nerves, their 
claw not ciliate or very partially indistinctly and minutely so ; 
invol. br. 3 ovate or ovate-lanceolate leafy and as long and large 
in fl. as the inner sep., smaller and more acuminate in fr. ; both br. 
and sep. smooth with the edges liirtoso-ciliate ; pedic. in fr. alivays 
erect ; fr. quite smooth with the cal. incurved and erecto-patent 
only partially concealing the fr. ; valves of carp, flatly and evenly 
(not sharply) neatly and finely cancellated at the back, immarginate 
with the edges plain and simple , not raised or prominent ; the cen- 
tral disk quite small. 
