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Sub-Lieutenant . . Nicholas E. Archdale. 

 Assistant Paymasters . Arthur Mudge. 



Louis J. P. G. McSheehy, 

 Assistant Engineers . George M. Gay. 



Robert D. Nelson. 

 Gunners . . . George J. L. Stroud. 



William G. Ford. 



Carpenter . . . James W. Dodd. 

 Boatswain . . . William M. Taylor. 

 Sig. Boatswain . . Henry J. Wayling. 



Wilfred M. Richardson. 



Frederick G. Satge. 



Frank G. Terry. 

 Midshipmen . . Baldwin C. Walker. 



Bernard Acworth. 



Lionel B. Foote. 



Reginald B. Darke. 



An alphabetical list of plants reported as seen by Dr. 

 Roxburgh, and growing on the island of St. Helena in 

 1813-1814, as given by Melliss. 



(I. means indigenous ; E., exotic). Several of the most 

 conspicuous of the undetermined species are briefly de- 

 scribed ; and Dr. Roxburgh's names are distinguished by 

 the letter R.) 



E. Abrus precatorius. Willd. 3. p. 911. 1025. 



I. Acalypha rubra. R. Red Acalypha or string- tree of the 

 islanders. Arboreus. Peduncles axillary and between the 

 leaves : one or more female flowers near the base, the rest a 

 long, pendulous, filiform, glomerate male spike : involucres cucu- 

 late, entire. Leaves petioled, ovate, ereuate, three-nerved. A 

 beautiful small tree, a native of elevated parts of the south face 

 of Diana's Peak (2,760), and called a string-tree by the natives 

 on account of its numerous beautiful red male spikes, which 

 hang in great profusion from every twig. Ultimate branches 

 tubercled with the scars of the fallen leaves ; above, where the 

 leaves remain coloured, red and smooth ; the petioles, nerves 

 and veins are also red and smooth. 



E. Acer pseudo-platanus. Willd. 4. 2. 983. Common maple or 

 sycamore tree. 



E. Achyranthes aspera. A weed in gardens. 



I. Acrostichum bifurcatum. A delicate, small, beautiful, smooth 

 species growing in crowded tufts about six inches in the most 

 shaded fissures of the rocks about Diana's Peak. 



I. Acrostichum lanceolaium. R. Stipes runcutaceous : fronds 

 simple lanceolar, strongly veined, entire : the fertile longer 

 stiped. Fructifications occupy the whole of the inferior surface. 



E. Aeschymomene sesban and grandiflora. 



