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51. ERICACEAE. 
et Godr. ii. 433 ; Willk. et Lange ii. 34G. Erica fucata Tlumb. 
u Diss. no. 9 ” (I)C.). E. fucata scoparia Bucli 194. no. 208. E. 
azorica a et (3 Seub. 40. — Shr. or subarb. per. Mad. reg. 2, 3, ccc; 
PS. reg. 4, r. In Mad. everywhere, but scarcely below 1500 ft. 
on the S. side of the island, though descending in the N. much 
lower. Its upper limits are on the whole rather lower than 
those of E. arbor ea L., e. g. on the N. ascent of Pico Ruivo, the 
middle region is filled with the two growing intermixed: but 
E. scoparia ceases presently, whilst E. arborea becomes larger 
and more luxuriant on approaching the summit. P t0 S t0 only 
on the highest peaks, P. do Facho, P. do Castello, &c. Apr.- 
June. — Seldom exceeding 5 or 6 ft. in height even in thickets, 
and in open places usually much smaller and forming a low thick 
bush, but occasionally rising into a tr. 15 ft. high, with a trunk 
1 ft. in diam. Foliage shining bright gr. rigid. Branchlets or 
young shoots bluntly 3-ribbed or angular; sometimes very 
minutely subpuberulous, but mostly quite smooth. L. shining 
gr. on both sides, hard and harsh or stiffish, very caducous in 
drying or even on the pi. in hot dry weather. FI. small incon- 
spicuous 2 mill, long, 2 broad, scentless herbaceous or pale gr. 
tinged or streaked chiefly on the upper side and lobes with 
( Indian) red or rose, globose in bud, each on its proper pedic. 
forming crowded subunilateral leafy rac. Anthers and stigma 
dark crimson or dull brownish red or atropurpureous, the former 
included, not longer than the tube, the stigma scarcely exserted 
beyond the tips of the lobes of cor. 
Much used as brushwood for heating ovens, kindling fires, & c., 
but not usually attaining size enough to be serviceable for 
other purposes, except sometimes for rods or varas for French 
beans ( Feijocns ). 
Tribe II. Andromedete . 
2. Clethra L. 
1. C. arborea Ait. Folhado or Folhadeiro. 
L. oblong or oblong-lanceolate acuminate at each end, sharply 
and finely serrate, reticulate, with the nerves rusty-pubescent or 
subvillose beneath ; rac. paniculate terminal rusty- villoso-pu- 
bescent ; br. minute deciduous ; stam. included. — Ait. Ilort. Kew. 
(ed. i ) ii. 73, (ed. 2) iii. 67; Vent. Malm. 40; BM. t. 1067 : 
Bucli 194. no. 209; Spr. ii. 316; DC. vii. 589; WB. iii. 12.— 
Arh. Mad. reg. 3, cc. Woods and thickets in ravines every- 
where from 2000 to 5000 ft. ; Iiib. Frio, da Metade, all the ra- 
vines in the north from P t0 da Cruz to Rib. da Janella; also 
frequently planted about cottages and in pleasure-grounds and 
