REPORT ON THE BOTANY OF THE ATLANTIC ISLANDS. 71 



157. "White Cabbage-tree. [Senecio leucadendron, Benth. et Hook, f.] 



Aster leucadendron, Forster in Herb. Lamb. 



Solidago leucadendron (in ink) 1 Forster's drawings in Brit. Mus. in pencil, and a bad repre- 



Aster pseudogummi (in pencil) J sentation. 



Solidago leucadendron, Roxb. Cat. ex descript. 



Lachanodes leucadendron, DC, Prodr., vi. p. 443. 



158. . . . conferta, B. [Commidendron spurium, DC] 



Solidago cuneifolia, Roxb. see. Herb. Lamb., where specimens of 157 [154] are under the same 



name. 

 Solidago gummi/era, Roxb. ex DC. 



[The last is a mistake, at any rate as to the Prodromus, where Solidago cuneifolia is 



doubtfully referred to Lachanodes.'] 



159. . . . vernicata, B. [Psiadia rotundifolia, Hook, f.] 



Conyza glutinosa, Solander MS. in Herb. Banks. 

 Conyza rotundifolia, Roxb. sec. descript. in catal. 

 Commidendron rotundi folium, DC, Prodr., v. p. 344. 



160. Drimyphyttum Jielenianum, B. [Petrobium arboreum, R. Br.] 



La.anannia arborea, Forster in Herb. Forst. in Mus. Brit. 

 Bidens arborea, Roxb. Cat. (planta fcem.) 

 Spilanthes tetrandra, Roxb. Cat. (planta mas.) 

 Petrobium, R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc, et DC." 



— IF. J. Burchell, MSS. in Bibl. Kew. 



Commidendron burchellii, Benth. et Hook. f. 



Commidendron burchellii, Benth. et Hook, f., Gen. Plant., ii. p. 277. 



Aster burchellii, Hook. f. in Hook. Ic. PL, xi. p. 44 ; Melliss, St Hel., p. 283, t. 36. 



St Helena. — Endemic. Longwood — Burchell, 152, in part ; near High Peak, at an 

 elevation of 2500 feet — Melliss; without locality — Wollaston ; Thompson's Wood — 

 Morris, in 1883. 



" Gum-tree." 



Very rare, and almost extinct. Mellis found only one small tree of this species, and he 

 believed it was the only one in existence. It was growing in a clump of Commidendron 

 gummiferus, near the Old Picquet House, above West Lodge. 



Commidendron spurium, DC. 



Commidendron spurium, DC, Prodr., v. p. 344, sed non Solidago spuria, Forst., nee Conyza arbor- 



escens, "Willd. 

 Aster gummiferus, Hook. f. in Hook. Ic. PI., xi. t. 1056, cum var. /3, non Conyza gummifera, Roxb., 



nee Commidendron gummiferum, DC. ; Melliss, St Hel., p. 284, t. 38. 

 Solidago cuneifolia, Roxb. in Beatsou's St Helena Tracts, p. 324. 

 Lachanodes cuneifolia, DC, Prodr., vi. p. 443. 



St Helena. — Endemic. Thompson's Wood Hill — Burchell, 15S ; from the ridge above 

 West Lodge — Burchell, 157 ; Central Peak, at High Peak, at 2700 feet— Melliss ; Thomp- 

 son's Wood — Morris, in 1883. 



" Little Bastard Gumwood." 



