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52. TEKNSTR(EMIACEJE. 
retuse or notched, pure w., thickish or leathery, completely 
though shortly united quite at their base, so as to fall off as *a 
monopetalous cor. together with the 10 stain., which are very 
shortly adnate in pairs to their base inside and to each other in 
a single ring or row. Anth. small 2-celled erect apiculate not 
awned, the fil. or connective produced into a short point. Ov. 
conoidal or half-ovate ferruginouslv villous smooth and shortly 
ribbed or sulcate at the base, 3-celled, cells 3-2-ovulate, ovules 
pendulous amphitropal. Styles 3 simple smooth gr. subspirally 
twisted. Fr. half inferior slightly fleshy and berry like but dry 
and scarcely eatable, black, shining, about 4 lines long or broad, 
globoso-turbinate, the upper half covered by the thickened ad- 
pressed persistent sep., the lower immersed and concrete with 
the fleshy base of cal., 1-2-celled, 1-3- or 4-seeded. Seeds 
rather large obversely triquetropyriform hard finely granulate. 
Embryo slender cylindric curved like a fish-hook within the 
distinct fleshy albumen, the radicle (forming the shank) straight 
erect superior, twice as long as but of the same diam. and con- 
tinuous with the narrow linear semicylindric cot. (forming the 
crook), all very much as in Cneorum pulverulentum Vent, (be- 
longing to the Family Simaiiubace^e) as fig. by WB. t. G6B, 
except that the cot. are much shorter instead of longer than 
the rad., and that the latter is erect and straight, the whole 
embryo being merely hooked downwards, not curved through- 
out. 
In Tenerife and Grand Canary this tr. occurs but sparingly 
or locally, and in the eastern islands of Lanzarote and Fuerte- 
ventura it is not found at all, the value of its wood having no 
doubt led to its extinction. But on the north coasts of Palma, 
Hierro andGomera, in precisely similar conditions of locality as 
those under which it grows in Mad., it still flourishes abundantly 
up to an elevation of about 2500 ft. ; and in the district called 
El Golfo in the north of Ilierro, about a quarter of the way up 
the zigzag road called Las Vueltas above La Lapa, I saw, Feb. 
10th 1858, 3 tr., growing close together by the road, which 
measured respectively, 3 ft. from the ground, 0 ft. 11 in., 12 ft. 
7 in., and 17 ft. 2 in. in circumf. These noble tr. were in full 
vigour and grew very much like large old tr. of the Carob ( Ce- 
ratonia Siliqua L.) with short rugged gnarled and knotted trunks 
not above 10 or 12 ft. high before branching, and of nearly equal 
circumf. throughout, with a vast spreading umbrageous thickly 
bushy head, and altogether of a most picturesque and handsome 
aspect. The wood is in great request for its strength and dura- 
