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brandies subremote or distinct, regularly opposite on alternate 
sides of the rachis and like the short pedic. widely divaricate, 
mostly 5-fld. ; br. and bractlets obsolete or 0. FI. scentless 
small w., in bud oboyoidal yellowish ; lobes of cor. equal ovate 
pure w. Anthers large, deep or., exserted, with distinct fil. 
Stigma nearly as large as the ov. on a distinct style, notched at 
top, bilobed at the base. Fr. 5 or 6 lines long, 3-5 broad erect 
on its pedic. and in erect or erecto-patent pan. of 2-5 or 6 
together, at first in ripening bright purplish red, then black and 
altogether much resembling the fr. of the Portugal Laurel 
(Primus lusitanica L.), shining, without bloom and apparently 
quite smooth and even, but through the lens faintly shagreened ; 
the skin and flesh very thin and dry, bitter without anv oilv 
flavour ; the stone ovoidal very large. 
The panicles are smaller and much more widely divaricate 
in all their parts, but otherwise precisely of the form and on 
the plan of that of Ligustrum lucidum Ait. (PAL t. 2565). 
The bitter dry and thinly fleshy fr. ( Azeitona ) seems to be 
entirely neglected. Indeed it is unfrequently produced at all, 
and in every case would yield a very poor return in oil. 
In drying, the Camera de Lobos and Cabo Girao spec, gave 
out a quantity of a loose mealy or granular sweet powdery sub- 
stance, of a pale y. col., somewhat shining and almost exactly 
resembling fine liglit-col. raw-sugar. This is certainly an exu- 
dation from the pi. itself (the 1. chiefly), and no product of an 
A '’Iridium, as suggested by Webb 1. c. It is evidently of the 
nature of the drug commonly called Manna in our shops. 
I cannot perceive, either in dried spec, or in the characters 
assigned by PC. to the Cape Oka verrucosa Link, any thing 
except the smaller fr. (not bigger than a pea or 2-3 lines by 2 
lines in diam.) to distinguish it from the present Mad. and Can. 
pi., which is certainly a mere var. of the common European 
Olive (O. c.uropcca L.). 
In Fogo, one of the southernmost Cape Verdes, as also in the 
more northernly islands of S. Antao and S. Nicolao, I pro- 
cured spec, of an Olive resembling perfectly in foliage the pre- 
sent pi., but without fl. or fr. 
y. buxifolia Ait. ; shr. thickly and closely branched or bushy, 
branches short still’ crowded ; 1. hard and rigid rather small 
shortly oblong, oval, obovate or rounded, mostly obtuse and 
abruptly apiculate or mucronulate, very dark gr. shining and 
glabrescent above, paler and more or less scaly or furfuraceous 
