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** Caps, more or less drooping-. 
tf2. D. Metel L. 
Fetid, altogether softly viscido-pubescent dull greyish cine- 
rascent gr.; st. erect round simple branched at top dicliotomously ; 
1. stalked ovate or elliptic-oblong entire or repandly toothed, the 
upper unequally geminate ; fi. erect solitary in the forks of the 
st. and branches shortly stalked ; cor. about twice the length of 
the evenly rounded loose pubescent cal., the limb 10-toothed ; 
base of cal. in fr. 5-lobed patent or retiexed ; caps, drooping glo- 
bose muricate. — Linn. Sp. 256; Lam. 111. no. 2292, Diet. vii. 462 ; 
Pers. i. 216 ; Ait. H. K. i. 387 ; BM. t. 1440 ; Spr. i. 627, ; WB. 
iii. 118; Webb Spic. Gorg. 162; J. A. Selim. FI. Verd. 235; 
Griseb. W. I. FI. 434; Willk. et Lange ii. 534. — Herb. aim. Mad. 
reg. 1, r. A weed in gardens or vineyards at or about Funchal 
occasionally ; the Deanery in 1826; and again (1858 and 1871) 
at the Quinta das Angustias, quite spontaneous but not appa- 
rently inclined to spread. June-Jan. — A stout vigorously 
growing pi. about 2 ft. high with large glaucescent-grey soft 
flaccid foliage, strongly and nauseously fetid. Branches forked 
straggling stout stiff, dull purplish, softly or subvillously pubes- 
cent. Petioles the same, 2-4 in. long. L. dull gr. softly 
pubescent flaccid entire elliptic-oblong 5-8 in. long, 3-4 broad, 
one of the upper geminate 1. smaller than the other. FI. pure 
w. shortly stalked in the forks of the st., fragrant at night, large 
i. e. (with cal.) 5 or 6 in. long. Pedic. round, short and erect 
in fl., defiexed and |-1 in. long in fr. ; cal. pale gr., tube 3 in. 
long, |-1 in. broad rounded not angular, 5-toothed, teeth equal 
^-1 in. long oblong-lanceolate acuminate. Cor. twice as long as 
cal., tube greenish downwards smooth 5-ribbed or angular, limb 
pure w. pubescent outside 2 in. or more in diam. Stam. and 
style half included i. e. exserted from the throat but much 
shorter than the limb ; fil. smooth adnate to cor. ; anth. linear 
erect. Ov. bristly hirsute, bristles w. erect, flypog. ring or 
nectary very shallow or narrow, double, the inner pale or w., 
the outer greenish, each repandly and irregularly 10-crenate. 
Fr. large subglobose prickly all over with short stiffish conic 
spines, 1^-2 in. in diam., 2-celled, obscurely 2-lobed, the perma- 
nent base of cal. forming a still, spreading or mostly turned-back, 
repandly or obscurely 5-angular gr. frill or collar at its base, i- 
| in. broad. Seeds 
The whole pi. is most disagreeably clammy and fetid. 
In all the Canaries, and most of the Cape Verdes, this is a 
common and universal weed in waste places near the sea, about 
towns and villages, in dry beds of ravines &c. 
