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linear subobtuse ; fl. rose-purple moderately large subcernuous 
or suberect in small terminal umbels or corymbs at the ends of 
the branches and short side-branchlets forming a narrow elon- 
gate dense tliyrse or panicle ; pedic. nearly or quite as long as 
cor. purpurascent subpuberulous 2— 3-bracteate at top, br. smooth 
gr. leaf-like unequal shorter than the smooth membranously 
bordered subpurpurascent lanceolate very distinct lobes or sep. ; 
cor. about twice the length of sep. ovate-oblong or cylindric- 
urceolate with short recurved lobes; anth. 2 -caudate, the awns 
serrulate or cristate ; style shortly exserted, stigma capitato- 
peltate ; caps, smooth. — Linn. Sp. 501 ; Fl. Dan. t. 38 ; Lam. 
Diet. i. 482 ; P>rot. ii. 23 ; Pers. i. 423 ; EB. 1. 1015 ; Hook. Fl. 
Sc. i. 119; Sm. E. Fl. ii. 226 ; DC. vii. 665 and /3. maderensis 
666 ; Spr. ii. 183 ; Ivoch 548 ; Coss. et Germ. i. 236 ; Gren. et 
Godr. ii. 431 ; Bab. 214 ; Willk. et Lange ii. 344. — Suffr. per. 
Mad. reg. 4, rrr. In rocky clefts or hollows on the craggy sum- 
mits of the highest central peaks, especially about P. do Areeiro ; 
but sometimes straggling down below them here and there, as 
at the bottom of the Voltas in the Curral das Freiras and (S r J. 
M. Moniz) “up the Caminho do Meio and about the Jardim da 
Serra.” Bock on the N. side of the Paul da Serra called the 
Cabo da Rib. de Joao Delgada. 2 * * * * * * * * 11 Summit of Pico Ruivo,” T. 
V. Wollaston Esq. July. — Low and thickly bushy, not above 
1 ft. high, with usually in Mad. long decumbent diffusely 
spreading or procumbent or even sometimes trailing branches, 
often in exposed places with the younger shoots or branchlets 
bent and twisted in upon themselves. L. 3 lines long stiff but 
very fine and narrow, at first ternate, presently fasciculate. Fl. 
very numerous and elegant, varying from light pink to full deep 
rose or rose-purple, never in Mad. w., scentless. Cor. more ob- 
long than ovate, 2-3 lines long and half as broad, a little con- 
stricted close below the 4 broad shallow segm. of the limb. 
I can perceive no stable difference whatever to warrant DC.’s 
separation of the Mad. pi. as a var. from the British or Eu- 
ropean. 
2. E. arborea L. TIrza ( JJrze ) mollar or (at Machico and 
P t0 da Cruz) JBetouro. Tree Heath. 
Arboreous, brandies and branchlets very erect straight virgate, 
the latter closely pyramidally tufted w. or cinereous and thickly 
hispid or furry as if hoar-frosted with short unequal spreading 
hispidulouslv or spinellosely roughened pubescence ; 1. 3-4-nate 
crowded smooth dark gr. short narrow-linear obtuse ; fl. w. 
rarely with a blush or pale rose tint, small cernuous in small 
drooping umbels or corymbs at the ends of the short side- 
branchlets only, forming broad thick brush-like thyrsoidal 
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