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also gathered it near Flagstaff and Turk's Cap Valley, on the eastern side of the island, 

 growing amongst the scrubwood bushes, and also on the cliffs at Wild Rani's Spring, 

 about 1800 feet perpendicularly above the sea." — Melliss. 



With the exception of one species north of the tropic and this Helenian species, the 

 genus Tripteris, consisting of about twenty-five other species, is confined to South Africa. 



CAMPANULACE,E. 

 Lobelia scaevolaefolia, Roxb. 



Lobelia secevola 'folia, Roxb. in Beatson's St Helena Tracts, p. 312; DC, Prodr., vii. p. 357 ; Melliss, 



St Hel., p. 292, t. 46. 

 Trimeris oblongifolia, Presl. Pro Jr. Monogr. Lobel., p. 46. 



St Helena. — Endemic. Diana's Peak and Sandy Bay Ridge — Burchell, 70 ; Diana's 

 Peak, at 2000 feet — Hooker ; Central Ridge, near Diana's Peak, at 2700 feet — Melliss; 

 without exact locality — Seemann ; Shuter ; Bennett ; Wight ; Cuming ; Lady Dalhousie ; 

 Diana's Peak — Morris, in 1883. 



This still grows rather abundantly on the Central Ridge. 



Wahlenbergia angustifolia, A. DC. 



Wahlenbergia angustifolia, A. DC, Monogr. Camp., p. 162, et Prodr., vii. p. 438; Melliss, St Hel., 



p. 293, t. 47. 

 Wahlenbergia clivosa, A DC, Monogr. Camp., p. 161. 

 Roella angustifolia, Roxb. in Beatson's St Helena Tracts, p. 320. 



St Helena. — Endemic. High Peak, &c. — Burchell, 67 ; Diana's Peak, in stony 

 places, at 2000 feet — Hooker; without locality— -Cuming; Lady Dalhousie; Bennett; 

 Central Ridge— Melliss ; Morris, in 1883. 



Melliss records this as rare on somewhat rocky banks along the Central Ridge, at 2000 

 to 2500 feet. 



Wahlenbergia linifolia, A. DC. 



Wahlenbergia linifolia, A. DC, Monogr. Camp., p. 162, et Prodr., vii. p. 438; Melliss, St Hel., 



p. 293, t. 48. 

 Roella linifolia, Roxb. in Beatson's St Helena Tracts, p. 321. 

 Wahlenbergia foliosa, A. DC, Monogr. Camp., p. 160, t. 14. 



St Helena. — Endemic ? Sandy Bay Ridge and Diana's Peak — Burchell, 68 ; Diana's 

 Peak, at 2700 feet, common — Hooker; Melliss; Morris, 1883; without locality — See- 

 mann; Lesson; Cuming; Walker; Lady Dalhousie. 



Also recorded by De Candolle from Ascension, in Herb. Herat. 



" Found at Diana's Peak, as well as generally and abundantly on the Central Ridge, 

 amidst ferns and other indigenous plants, at altitudes of 2000 to 2500 feet."— Melliss. 



