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OF HORTICULTURE. 415 
SELF-HEAL, or ALL-HEAL. 
vulgaris. 
SELINUM (from Selinon, the Greek name for Pars- 
ley ; applied to this genus on account of the resemblance 
in the leaves). Syns. Cnidiwm, Mylinwm. Including 
Oreocome. Orv. Umbellifere. A genus comprising about 
twenty-five species of mostly hardy, branched, glabrous, 
perennial herbs; one is found in the mountainous parts 
of Columbia, and another in South Africa, the rest being 
all natives of the Northern hemisphere. Flowers white 
See Prunella 
Semecarpus—continued. 
A genus comprising about a score species of stove, 
evergreen trees, inhabiting tropical Asia, and especially 
abundant in Ceylon. Flowers small; calyx five-cleft, the 
segments imbricated, deciduous ; petals five, spreading, Ț 
imbricated; stamens five; panicles terminal or lateral, 
branched, bracteate. Nuts or drupes reniform. Leaves 
alternate, simple, coriaceous, on simple petioles. The 
only species introduced requires culture similar to Ana- 
cardium (which see), 
Fic. 473. SELENIPEDIUM SEDENT. 
or rarely yellowish- green, in compound, many - rayed 
umbels. Leaves pinnately decompound. The species 
possess no interest from a garden standpoint. 
SELLIGUEA. Included under @ymnogramme 
(which see). ; 
SEMECARPUS (from semeion, a mark, and karpos, 
a fruit; the black, acrid juice of the nut is used by the 
natives for marking cotton cloths). ORD. Anacardiaceæ. 
S. Anacardium (Anacardium). Kidney Bean of Malacca. 
J. greenish-yellow, disposed in a terminal, tomentose panicle. 
July and August. J. oblong, rather blunt, beneath glaucous 
and more or less covered on the nerves with scabrous down. 
h. 50ft. East Indies (on mountains), 1824. (B. F. S. 166.) ae 
S. A. cuneifolium (cuneate-leaved). J. wedge-shaped and acu- 
minate at base, blunt at apex. : 
SEMEIANDRA (from semeion, a mark, signal, and 
aner, andros, a male; in allusion to the conspicuous shape 
of one of the stamens). Orp. Onagrariee. A genus 
