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‘ Rigidi,’ from which its involucre and pappus at once distinguish it.—D. 
OLIVER. 
Fig. 1. Ray-floret. 2. eo a of same. oa io floret. 4. Stamen. 5. Style- 
branches of disk-floret. 6. e. 7. Scales of p 
Prate 1031. 
HEDYOTIS ARBOREA, Roxd. 
Rusiaces, Tribe HEDYOTIDER. 
» Roxb. ; arbor parva, seit age, ramulis teretibus, foliis 
r 
brevibus ovatis, stylo brevissimo, stigmatibus brevibus, capsula subglobosa, 
ad apicem late umbonatam rima transversa loculicide dehiscente, seminibus 
cage —Hedyotis ? roeres Roxb. in Beatson’s St. Helena Tracts, Ap- 
pendix, 310; DC. Prodr. iv. 422. 
Has. St. Helena, . region abundant, Rowburgh, Burchell, Gen’. 
Walker, Seemann, J. D. Hooker. Flowering in February. 
the “ Dogwood-tree” of St. Helena, is one of the few remaining 
This, 
common trees of the isla nd. As a species it differs from almost all others 
sionally three — in the male flowers, but have not met with more than 
two in the females.— Hooker. 
Fig. 1. Male flower. 2. Female. 3. Vertical section of ditto. 4. Capsule. 5. Trans- 
verse section of ditto. 6. Seed. 7. Vertical section of ditto :—al/ magnified. 
PLATE 1032. 
SIUM HELENIANUM, Hook. f. 
UmMBELLIFER2, Tride AMMINES. 
S. Hel um, Hook. f. . sp.; glaberrimum, caule frutescente elato 
basi simpli superne Schone jamnaeo, ramis teretibus, foliis eee amplis, 
pinnis sub-5-jugis amplis oblongis acutis argute dentatis basi cor owas 
3-7 -nerviis et tenuiter reticulatis, lobo accessorio inflexo auric 
a basi adjecto, umbellis pedumnlatis terminalibus a eppost 
tato 
foliis, sasha foliolis 6-10 oblongis mucronatis indivisis, yittis se 
