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subalate serrate like them. Umbels terminals, numerous, 

 compound subglobules and many rayed. Involucre and involu- 

 cells of 6-1 o broad lanceolate leaflets each. Flowers numerous, 

 small white but turn pink by age. Petals subequal oval and 

 oblong uncurved, stamina unequal, anthers purple. Styles 

 short erect. Receptacles naked. 



E. Anthoylza oethcopica. Flag-leaved antholyza. 



E. Anthoxanthiim odoratum. Sweet scented vernal grass. 



E. Apumi toseluran. Parsley and graveolens or smallage. 



E. Argemona mexicana. The most common weed on the island. 



E. Artemesia absenthium. Wormwood. 



E. Arum colocasia. St. Helena yam: of this there are several wild 

 varieties but only the white is cultivated. 



E. Asclepias fructicosa. Shrubby asclepias. 



E. Asclepias carassewica. Bastura ipecacuanha. 



I. Aspidium reparumi. Stipes villous flat above. Fronds oblong, 

 bipinnatifid : pumice linear segments linguiform or falcate 

 and deeply divided. Spots in one crowded row a little removed 

 from the margin : involucres veniform. Found plenty over 

 the south side of the mountains immediately above Major Seal's 

 in Sandy Bay, where it grows in tufts from 2 to 4 feet high. 



I. Aspidium pulchrum. Base of the stipes and tuberous-like 

 runners chaffy, the rest brown and smooth. Fronds ovate- 

 oblong, firm, sub-bipennate ; pumice opposite generally pinna- 

 tifid : sequients oblong obtuse, subcrenate. Spots, generally 

 one, rarely two or three to each sequent of the pinnae, involucres 

 veniform. A small (6-12 inch) plant of a hard texture, but not 

 glossy, with the stipes about as long as the fronds : a native 

 of Diana's Peak. 



I. Aspidium vestitum. Stipes and divisions amply clothed with 

 large brown soft scales. Fronds oblong, bipinnated leaflets 

 linguiform, obtuse crenate. Grows on Diana's Peak to about 

 2 feet high. 



I. Aspidium capense. Stipes green and channelled. Fronds 

 ovate, smooth bipinnate : pinna opposite, apices ensiform and 

 sharply serrate ; pinnulae from serrate to pinnatifid, with 

 obtuse dentate apices. Spots in two rows a little removed 

 from the nerve : involucres reniform. A native of Diana's 

 Peak where it grows to be from 20 to 30 inches high, is of a soft 

 delicate texture, the spots numerous and very large. 



I. Aspidium corraceum. Stipes as long as the oppositely bipen- 

 nate ovale fronds. Leaflets linguiform, crenate serrate and 

 pinnatifid. Spots in one line half way between the nerve and 

 the margin : involucres veniform. Is also a native of south 

 face of Sandy Bay range of mountains where it rises to the height 

 of 2 feet and generally amongst bushes. It differs from A. 

 Capense in little else than the shape of the apices of the pumice 

 and the single row of spots, whereas in that species it is double. 



I. Asplenium lenellum. R. Stipes polished. Fronds linear re- 

 curved apices rooting, alternately pennate : leaflets numerous, 



