TlSitEA* 
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Tribe I. Ternstrcemiea . 
1. Visnea L. fil. 
I. V. MO CAMERA L. fil. Mocano. 
The only sp. — Linn. fil. Suppl. 30, 251 ; Lam. Diet. iv. 208 ; 
Willd. Sp, PI. ii. pars ii. 926 ; Pers. ii. 19 ; Spr. ii. 465; Hook. ! 
Icon. iii. t. 253; WB. ii. 145, t.69 B; Johns, in Hook. J. of Bot. ix. 
161. — Arb. Mad. reg. 2, rrr. From S. Vicente to P t0 Moniz on the 
N. coast on steep banks and perpendicular rocks from 500 ft. to 
about 1500 ft. in all the principal ravines (Rib. do Inferno, de 
Joao Delgada, do Seixal, Rib. Fundo and Rib. da Janella) but 
chiefly in Rib. Fundo and never seen to the E. of S. Vicente; 
first observed “ on rocks at Seixal, July 1856” in fruit by S r 
J. M. Moniz, from whom I received it in the following Sept. I 
have since frequently found or obtained it in fl. or fr. at the 
mouth of the Rib. do Inferno (Fajaa da Vinha) or of Rib. Fundo 
on the cliff-road to Rib. da Janella. Fl, Dec. -March ; fr. July. 
— Properly a large not very lofty tr. with a short thick knotted 
rugged trunk and bushy head of subdiffuse widespreading 
branches ; though now in Mad. scarcely existing but as a low 
bushy tr. or shr. 6-12 or 15 ft. high, with the short st. or 
trunk not thicker than the arm or leg. Foliage evergreen and 
copious, but light and tressy, like that of Ficus comosa Roxb. 
and of a paler or brighter gr. than usual from the light col. of 
the 1, beneath. Petioles short 1-2 lines long, whilst young 
hairy like the young shoots and 1., often reddish. Stip. very 
minute linear hairy evanescent. L. elliptic, acute at each end, 
sharply and finely serrulate, 1-2 or 2^ in. long, |-1 in. broad, at 
first hairy especially at the edges and on the midrib beneath, 
finally glabrescent, shining bright full gr. above, paler beneath 
with the midrib mostly ferruginous or reddish brown like the 
strongly and sharply angular young twigs or branches. Fl. ax- 
illary, solitary (rarely binate or ternate) cernuous bell-shaped 
mostly unilateral or secund along the branchlets, about the size 
and with the fragrance (though with a slight fetid after-scent) 
of those of Lilies of the Valley ( Convallarici maiulis L.), pure 
w., 2-3 lines long ; smaller bat otherwise in shape or form re- 
sembling those of Solly a heteropliylla Lindl. Pedic. short, 2 lines 
long, hooked femiginously subpubescent, with one or two mi- 
nute inconspicuous adpressed bractlets mostly at base of cal. but 
sometimes lower down or at the base. Sep. 5 unequal ovate 
more or less rusty- pubescent and obtuse, still, leafy, gr., erecto- 
patent, laterally imbricate, closed in fr., persistent. Pet, 5 
distinct but slightly connected at the base and inserted at the 
junction of the sep. with the ovary, about twice the length of 
sep., erect, loosely imbricate, 2 or 3 apicuiate or pointed, the rest 
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