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yet not w. or hoary beneath, the margins slightly revolute . — (). 
europcea £. buxifolia Ait. 1. c. ; Risso var. 1, 1. c. 7 ; /3, Lam. 1. c. 
538 (l’olivier sauvage) ; ejusd. 111. 28. no. 73; a. Oleaster DC. 
1. c. partly. — Shr. per. Mad. reg. 1 ; ND. ; rrr. 
Subv. 1 ; 1. decussate short rounded or broadly oval mucro- 
nulate nearly or quite sessile ; branches straight regularly op- 
posite and decussate, stiffly divaricate or erecto-patent, some- 
times spinescent ; fl. and fr. as in /3. — X. or Flat Deserta, in the 
centre of the island, 15-20 pi. which have been burned or 
stubbed down to their stocks or stumps which are sometimes 2 
or 3 ft. in circumf. They are apparently the relics of former 
cultivation, growing at regular intervals in a central spot of 
about 2 acres, inclosed by traces of a wall and near t]ie ruins 
of a house or cottage. — A small low bush. Branches very hard 
stiff straight and rigid, squarish towards the ends and often 
subspinescent, pale ash or whitish. L. small 3 or 4-6 or 7 lines 
long, 2 or 3-5 broad, mostly round or broadly oval, obtuse or 
retuse and mucronulate, but sometimes on young vigorous 
shoots lanceolate-oblong and acute, very hard stiff and rigid, 
dark gr. shining and nearly naked or with only a few scattered 
scales above, but pretty closely lepidote or furfuraceous beneath ; 
in one or two cases beautifully variegated with y. In June 
1855 I found several of these pi. in fl., with plenty of old fr. or 
their stones beneath them on the ground. 
Subv. 2 ; 1. irregularly crowded, oblong or obovate-oblong 
petiolulate not mucronulate ; branches thickly and irregularly 
crowded abbreviate. — S. Gon^allo below the Chapel of N. S. 
das Neves on rocks inland but towards the sea. — A little scrubby 
peculiarly dark densely branched shr. with short stiff crowded 
rigid thickly leafy branches coated with a black soot-like Fuligo. 
Petioles short but distinct, |-1 line long. L. rigid very dark 
blackish gr. r paler but not at all hoar}' and inconspicuously yet 
pretty closely furfuraceous or lepidote beneath, shining and 
punctate but nearly or quite smooth or naked above, 6-12 lines 
long, 3-4 broad, obtuse or retuse, not mucronulate, rarely sub- 
acute. Fl. and fr. not seen. 
2. X oteljea Tent. 
1. X. excelsa (Ait.). Fdo branco. 
Arb. ; branches proliferously umbellate, the younger compressed 
decussately or alternately in opposite directions between each 
pair of 1., smooth, sparingly verruculate ; 1. petiolate stiff cori- 
aceous oblong-lanceolate or elliptic acute at each end, altogether 
smooth and naked, entire finely reticulato-granulate and ob- 
scurely and remotely punctate ; fl. in axillary and sometimes 
terminal binate or solitary rac. which are at first drooping, then 
