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downwards) and often witli a spur-like lobe or horn at their 
base ; in the many-fld. rac., secund inarticulate ebracteate 
pedic. (devoid of cup-shaped or any sort of hr.), pulpy and 
juicy many-seeded fr., and heteromorphous (partly 3-5-pinnati- 
sect) and altogether viscoso-tomentoso-pubescent foliage, st., 
&c. It is also strictly Macaronesian, not Gerontogean; Tri- 
guera being apparently confined to Spain, and neither the Mad. 
nor Can. groups possessing indigenously any others of the 
specially characteristic pi . of that part of the continent, or vice 
versa. * 
Nycterium Tent., founded solely on the inequality of the 
stam. and anth., lias been lately universally abandoned. It is 
indeed a wholly artificial group of pi. belonging truly to So- 
larium. Thus the Mad. pi., referred by me 40 years ago to 
Nycterium Vent., as then its nearest known related group, and 
subsequently to Solarium by Dunal, becomes open to comme- 
morate the many valuable botanical discoveries effected by 
Commander Norman R.N. in Mad. 
The Canarian Solarium Nava Reichenb. in WB. iii. 123, 
t. 174; DC. xiii. 37, is probably a mere suffrutescent form or 
state of the usual sylvan form of the Mad. pi., from which it 
differs in nothing I can find but its elongated sarmentose 
u woody ” or suffrutescent branches, its bifid cymes or rac., and 
simple 1-foliolate 1. As to this last point however, Webb’s or 
Bourgeau’s specs, in BH., like his figure t. 174, exhibit merely 
the upper ends of branches, wanting entirely the lower 1. And 
so indeed the late Dr. Lemann’s Can. spec, from Despreaux 
(Webb’s collector), and sent by him as “ Solarium nova sp.,” 
was considered by Lemann in litt. at the time (1837) to be per- 
fectly 11 identical ” and u not to differ in the least from ” his 
original herbaceous ternatisect-leaved specs, of the Mad. pi. 
