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ALL-HEAL 



See Prunella 



SELF-HEAL, 



vulgari*. 



SELINTTM (from Selinon, the Greek name for Pars- 

 ley ; applied to this genus on account of the resemblance 

 in the leaves). SYNS. Cnidivm, Mylinum. Including 

 Oreocome. OKD. Umbelliferce. A genus comprising about 

 twenty-fire 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 



Semecarpus continued. 



A genus comprising about a score species of store, 

 erergreen trees, inhabiting tropical Asia, and especially 

 abundant in Ceylon. Flowers small; calyx five-cleft, the 

 segments imbricated, deciduous ; petals fire, spreading, 

 imbricated ; stamens fire ; 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 

 cardinal (which see). 



Flo. 473. SKLEMPBDIUM SEDEXI. 



or rarely yellowish - green, in compound, many - rayed 

 umbels. Leaves pinnately decompound. The species 

 possess no interest from a garden standpoint. 



SELLIGUEA, Included under Gymnogramme 

 (which see). 



SEMECARPUS (from semeion, a mark, and karpot, 

 a fruit; the black, acrid juice of the nut is used by the 

 natives for marking cotton cloths). OBD. Anacardiaeeae. 



. (Anacardinm). Kidney Bean of Malacca. 



JL greenish-yellow, disposed in a terminal, tomentose panicle. 



July and August L oolong, rather blunt, beneath glaucous 



and more or less corered on the nenres with scabrous down. 



A. 50ft East Indies (on mountains), 1824. (B. F. S. 166.) 

 S. A. cuneifolium (cuneate-leaTed). L wedge-shaped and acn- 



minate at base, blunt at apex. 



SEMEIAJTDRA (from semeion, a mark, signal, and 

 aner, androt. a male ; in allusion to the conspicuous shape 

 of one of the stamens). OBD. Onagrariece. A genus 



