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tfTribe I. Plumieriece. 
ttSubtribe 1. Taberncemontanece. 
ttl. Vinca L. 
Periwinkle. 
ttl. V. major L. 
Barren st. diffusely spreading or decumbent, flowering sub- 
erect, all gr. smooth slender sarmentose ; 1. ovate or ovate-lan- 
ceolate subacute often subcordate at the base, the edges alone 
shortly ciliato-pubescent, petioles 2-glandular at top subciliate 
at the edges ; cal. -lobes linear ciliate nearly as long as cor. -tube ; 
pedic. shorter than the 1. ; cor.-lobes obliquely cuneato-rhom- 
boidal and truncate. — Linn. Sp. 304 ; Yill. Dauph. ii. 486 ; Lam. 
Diet. v. 198 ; ejusd. 111. t. 172. f. 1 (fl. only) ; Desf. i. 206 ; Pers. i. 
267 ; EB. t. 514 ; Sm. E. Fl. i. 339 ; Spr. i. 638 ; Koch 557 ; DC. 
viii. 384 ; Coss. et Germ. i. 251 ; Gren. et Godr. ii. 477 ; Bab. 219; 
Willk. et Lange ii. 666 (not Brot.). — Herb. per. Mad. reg. 2, cc. 
Perfectly naturalized in Chestnut woods and shady places at 
the Mount, S. Ant 0 da Serra about the Church, Arco "de S. Jorge, 
S. Vicente, &c. Feb. -May. — St. numerous tufted 1-2 or 3 ft. 
long round hard rigid simple, the barren arcuate declining, the 
flowering shorter more erect, all ultimately here and there root- 
ing at the joints and copiously leafy. L. opposite shortly stalked 
dark gr. subcoriaceous shining quite entire smooth except at the 
edges, 1-2 in. long, f-1 in. broad, the lower shorter and broader, 
the upper longer and somewhat narrower, all rounded or sub- 
cordate at the base. Petioles 3 or 4 lines long. Pedic. axillary 
solitary slender, about 1 in. long. Fl. full lavender-blue with 
the tube and throat of corona pale or w., large, 1A in, in diam. 
Sep. i in. long, finely linear, gr. Throat of cor. clothed down- 
wards inside with w. horizontal hairs ; angles of corona opposite 
lobes of cor.-limb. Stam. short halfway down the cor. -tube ; 
anth. large closely connivent over the stigma, hairy outside, 
bursting inwards. Style slenderly clavate; stigma a viscidlv 
broad-edged or double-edged disk like an up-and-down double- 
rimmed wheel, with a short conical gr. knob or button in its 
centre clothed at t he tip with a deflexedly stellate or 5-angular 
thick tuft or coma of dense snow-w. silky hairs : the style and 
stigma together resembling in shape an inverted teetotum. 
Follicles small slender subulate acuminate unequal 1-2 in. long. 
Seeds 3 or 4 oblong brown roughened. 
Neither the Portuguese V. media Iloffm. et Link (V. major 
