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59. GEXTIAXACEJE. 
21 ; Kocli 507 ; DC. ix. 60; Gren. et Godr. ii. 486 ; AYillk. et 
Lange ii. 660 : RFG. xvii. 14, t. 20. f. vi. (but fi. full y.). E. oc- 
cidentalis , E. maritima and E. lutea Roem. et Schult. iv. 171. 
Gentiana maritima Linn. Mant. 55 ; Brot. i. 278 ; Cav. Ic. iii. 
49, t. 296. f. 1. Chironia maritima AVilld. i. 1069; FI. Gr. 
t. 267. Centaurium minus luteum latifolium See. Barr. t. 468. — 
Herb. ann. Mad. reg. 3 (lower part), r. Bare open sunny moun- 
tain-pastures at top of the Caminho do Meio about the Pico da 
Silva in the short turf here and there, not uncommon ; “ about 
the Fort or Pico do Arrebentao,” S r Moniz. June. — A small 
short-lived pi. with conspicuous fl. altogether smooth, varying 
much in size and luxuriance. Root small nearly simple flexuous 
w. stiff slender. St. 4-angular about 6 in. high and 6-12-fld. 
with stiffly erect forked fl. -branches, often by depauperation 
simple 2 or 3 in. high and 1-2- or 3-fld. L. rather small and 
inconspicuous, especially the lower, of a shining rather dull or 
pale gr., all 3-nerved sessile and entire, the lower short obtuse, 
the upper longer and acute, the midrib distinct, the 2 side-nerves 
faint. Fl. in Mad. pale lemon-v. very erect elegant, their tube 
4 in. long and expanded limb the same in diam., all on short 
4-angular pedic. 4 in. long and thickened upwards, at first ter- 
minal, but presently, by the production of a branch on each or 
only one side from the axils of the pair of 1. at the base of each 
fl., becoming either alary or lateral, forming a stiffly erect irre- 
gular not close or crowded or many-fld. or constantly fasti giate 
cyme. Cal. acutely o-angular, the angles produced into tine 
long slender hair-like points or awns as long as its tube. Limb 
of cor. funnel-shaped, tube greenish slender striate, nearly or 
quite as long as awns of cal., limb fine pale lemon-colour, ex- 
panding stellately, but closing about noon or in cloudy weather ; 
lobes 5 elliptic, 2-3 lines long, 1-1| broad. Stain, just ex- 
serted beyond the tube, anth. golden- (somewhat or.-)y. Style 
reaching to top of stam. where it divides into 2 large erect ob- 
long flattened adpressed lemon-coloured stigmas, about a line 
long, forming a club overtopping the anth. by nearly or quite 
its whole length. Caps, longer than the cal. 
Of Looaniace.h, which are little more than Ttubiacece with a free ov., 
Buddleia globosa L., BM. t. 174, a subnrboreseent shr. 12 or 
15 ft. high, with square w. -tomento.se young shoots, opposite 
long acuminato-lanceolate reticulato-rugose 1. dark gr. above, 
snow-w. beneath, and stalked small balls of bright reddish- 
orange strongly scented tlowers, occurs about cottages or in 
garden-hedges ut the Palheiro and Camaclia, seminaturalized. 
