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57. MYRSIXACEJE. 
DC. viii. 106; WB. iii. 169. t. 188. Leucophylon (an error or 
misprint for Leucoxylum Sol. ) excelsum Buch ! 193. no. 206. 
Anguillaria excelsa and A. bdhamensis (“ Gaertn. t. 77. f. 1 ”) 
Lam. 111. ii. 110; Poir. in Lam. Diet. vii. 688 and Suppl. v. 313. 
lcacorea Lam. 111. t. 136. f. 1. (fr. only). Condalia coriacea 
Reiclib. in Holl ! List in J. of Bob i. 39 (not Rhamnus cori- 
acem Nees von Esenb. or R. integrifolius DC.). — Tr. per. Mad. 
reg. 3, |. Rib. Frio, Rib. da Metade, do Fayal, Serra de Machico, 
do P t0 da Cruz, da Rib. da Janella, do Seixal, about the Cru- 
zinhos, on Pico Grande, &c. FI. Julv-Sept. ; fr. Nov. mostly. 
— Growing amongst other forest-tr. the Aderno rises to a height 
of 50 or 60-80 ft. with a cylindric or pyramidal head ; but single 
or detached tr. are not above 20-30 ft. high with a compact 
thick rounded bushy head like an Orange-tr. Trunk straight 
cylindric, in small detached tr. 5-10 ft. high without branch- 
ing, in the taller 2-3 ft. in diam., covered like the branches 
with an even smooth light grey or wliitish-asli-coloured 
bark. Branches rather unusually brittle, very rugged with the 
large scars of the fallen 1. and with pale grey raised lenticels, 
ending proliferously in subcorymbose leafy tufts of shoots or 
branchlets, which, like the buds, petioles, fl. -spurs and pedic., 
are ferruginous and slightly furfuraceous whilst young. L. all 
suprafloral on the short corymbose proliferous tufted shoots or 
branchlets of the present year 2-3 in. long, half as broad, hard 
rigid coriaceous shining rather light gr. above, paler and with- 
out lustre beneath, simply 1 -ribbed, sprinkled with minute 
raised glandular dots and reticulately veined on both sides, their 
sharp pellucid margins sprinkled with minute deep-red glan- 
dular dots, mostly quite entire or only very rarely, and chiefly 
in young vigorous seedling plants or shoots, with a few teeth 
upwards; either acute, obtuse or retuse, often cymbiform, 
mostly more or less revolute and waved at the edges, but always 
obovate towards the base and attenuated more or less into the 
short petioles, which are scarcely 3 lines long, ferruginous, and 
sprinkled like the young shoots and prominent midrib of the 1. 
beneath with very minute dark red dots and lines or clefts. Fl. 
small pale gr. or yellowish gr. scentless, produced in small 
scattered subcorymbose more or less dense and globose tufts or 
fascicles on very short woody spurs below the 1. on all sides of 
the naked branches of the preceding year, or rarely also in the 
axils of the lower 1. on the leafy young shoots. These spurs 
have often a terminal bud, which, after fl., shoots out into a 
branch, and sometimes are so crowded that the whole branch 
below the 1. is clothed all round with fl. Each spur bears from 
2 or 3 to 7 or 8 round smooth 1 -fid. pedic. 2-3 lines long in a 
terminal tuft, with often several rather longer clustered lateral 
ones below them ; all widely divaricate and furnished with a 
small deciduous brown bractlet at the base. Thus the intlo- 
