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shaped, even at top hut 5-angular, shining waxy v. with an 
orange band, half the height of ovary. Caps, small scarcely 
overtopping the sep. 
The fl., produced in great profusion and long succession, much 
resemble those of the Marsh Mallow, Altlicca officinalis L. ; 
whence doubtless the name ahhceoides. 
(c) Shrubby, st. woody per. 
5. C. Massoxi Pietr. Corriola. 
Branches elongate sarmentose trailing or partly twining, round 
smooth or only towards the ends whilst young (like the young 
1. and petioles) adpressedly pubescent, thickly leafy ; 1. glabres- 
cent stalked ovate-oblong or ovate subacuminate, rounded at 
the base or sometimes subcordate, about twice as long as broad 
and 2^ the length of their petioles, presently with the latter 
quite smooth ; cymes axillary solitary stalked scarcely longer 
than the 1., normally simple and 3-fld. but sometimes trichoto- 
mously compound and many-fld. ; stalks or ped. and pedic. 
slender erecto-patent, br. inconspicuous deciduous linear or 
linear-lanceolate and like the pedic. a little hairy or adpressedly 
pubescent ; cal. obconic or obovate subpentangular glabrescent, 
sep. at top leafy spreading broadly ovato-rhomboidal or deltoidal, 
subauriculately waved or plicate at the base, the edges finely 
subciliate ; cor. rather small 3 times the length of cal. w. with 
the plaits or angles red or rose-purple and adpressedly hairy - 
pubescent ; stigmas not overtopping the anth. Caps, smooth 
ovate . — u Dietr. Gart. Nachtr. ii. 377 Chois, in 1)C. ix. 413. 
C. suffruticosus Ait. ! Hort. Kew. (ed. 2) i. 331 ; Bot. Ileg. 133, 
t. 132 (not Desf.). C. Dryandri Spr. i. 597. C. depilis v. C. 
fruticosus v. C. rupestris v. C. sujfruticosus Sol. ! MSS. and 
BIT. C. rupestris? Buch ! 193. no. 201 (not Pall. & Willd.). 
C. solanifolius Lowe Prim. 22 ; Novit. 537 or 15. — Shr. per. 
Mad. reg. 3, rr. Bocks on the right of the Waterfall at 
the head of the Bib. de S ta Luzia ; Curral das Freiras on 
the short foot-road down to the right of the Voltas ; Bib. da 
Metade ; Bib. de S. Jorge; Seixal more plentifully in most 
of the ravines especially towards S. Vicente. Fl. May, June ; 
fr. July, Aug. — A large thickly leafy shr. with dark glossy gr. 
foliage, running over other bushes or hanging down rocks in 
thick masses with long weak flaunting or trailing shoots like a 
Woodbine (Loniccra et/'usca Savi or L. Capri folium L.) twisting 
or twining only here or there. Older branches stout hard woody 
covered with an even smooth brown bark ; the younger striate 
and subrufescently adpresso-pubescent (like the young 1. and 
petioles) towards the ends. L. crowded 2-3 in. long, 1-11 
broad, rounded or sometimes cordate at the base, sharply acute 
