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rounded shallow, not above £ the length of the concolorous 
(not gr.) tube, their edges minutely puberulous. Stain, lialf- 
exserted, the rather large elliptic-oval anth. reaching to or a 
little above the base of cor.-lobes and versatile or affixed by 
their middle to the til., of which the free part, like the style, is 
quite smooth. Style as long as or a little longer than the 
stam., stigma distinctly depresso-capitate. Fr. (only 4 berries 
seen) in 2 examples pendulous, in one (growing from the under 
side of a horizontal branch) ascending vertically on its abruptly 
hooked pedic., exactly ovoidal obtusely rounded at both ends, 
2^-3^ lines or 5-7 mill, long X 2-2^ lines or 4-5 mill, broad, 
smooth shining or.-y. or bright full or.-red. Cal. enlarged as 
long as the ripe berry itself, of which it closely embraces the 
base only, pale yellowish gr. fleshy, with 5 short ovate sub- 
equal or slightly unequal distinct teeth, the 3 or 4 upper some- 
times rather longer than the lower, rendering it subbilabiate 
not bifid ; tube not usually split down, turbinatelv or pyriformly 
attenuated at the base into the short (2-3 lines) abruptly and 
strongly hooked ribbed or angular pedic. 
Though flowering abundantly, the fr. is extremely rare ; and 
it escaped not only my own observation for 30 years or more, 
but that of Webb, IIoll, Lemann, Lippold, Moniz, Norman &c. 
and indeed apparently of every other earlier Mad. botanist. I 
first met with a single ripe berry on a low stunted depauperated 
almost leafless bush which, though I have not seen its fl., I 
believe to be merely a starved (from drought) more thorny and 
fleshy-leaved maritime state of the sp., — near the brackish sea- 
cliff spring (Fonte) on the Penedo do Saco, March 6th 1861 ; 
and again, on the same bush, two nearly ripe pale orange-y. 
berries and a single small subabortive unripe gr. one, May 21st 
1871, having looked for fr. or fl. on it in vain several times in 
the interim. Still, ripe fr. must be sometimes or somewhere 
more abundantly or frequently produced, judging from the very 
general diffusion of the pi. ; and the rarity of the one and wide 
dispersion of the other may be both perhaps attributable to the 
same cause, viz. the early and eager devouring of the fr. by 
birds. 
The only points in which I can perceive the Mad. pi. to differ 
from Jj. europium of authors are the lavender-blue fl. and ovoidal 
fr. The former may be probably ascribed, ns in the fl. of Hy- 
drangea liortemis 8m. and Ipomcca rubro-ceprulea Ilook. in Mad., 
to the peculiar soil. The latter is perhaps no difference at all, 
