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ST. HELENA 



Pisum sativum. Willd. 3. 1070. Garden pea, a few varieties. 



E. Pitto sporum. Tobira. Botanical Magazine, 1396. 



I. Plantago robusta. R. Shrubby. Leaves crowded round the 

 apices of the robust ligneous branches, linear entire, withering. 

 Spikes few, axillary, cylindric, long peduncled. A native of 

 the top of the moderately high hills over the island, where it 

 grows to be a stout shrub, with but few very thick simple 

 somewhat woody branches ; bark strongly marked with the 

 innumerable scars of the fallen leaves. 



394.' j Three <> ualities of rather inferior 



Poa pratensis. Willd. i. 388. J 



Poa laxa. Willd, i. 386. 



E. Poinciana pulcherimma. Willd. Prickly flower fence. 



E. Polyanthes tuberosa. Willd, 2.164. Tuberose. 



I. Polypodium macrocarpum. Willd, 5.147. Surculi creeping, 

 slender and very scaly, rooting on trees, rocks, etc. Stipes 

 short, slender, polished dark brown and somewhat winged 

 while young, scaly. Fronds (4-6 inch) narrow, lanceolar, 

 tapering most at the base, entire rather obtuse, smooth thick 

 firm, veinless surfaces, particularly the under dotted with 

 ferruginous specks. Spots in one row on the exterior half 

 large, round and distinct, but intermixed with many peltate 

 scales, which while young unite and form a complete poly- 

 phyllous involucre, Is a pretty delicate species, growing 

 over the south face of Diana's Peak. It may be referred to 

 Pleopeltis of Humboldt and Bonpland. 



I. Polypodium molle. R. Stipes deeply channelled with the 

 rachis, covered with soft hair and large brown ramenti. Fronds 

 ovate, soft and hairy underneath, sub oppositely bipinnate. 

 Leaflet deeply crenate. Fructifications numerous, small gener- 

 ally in two ill-defined rows equally distant from the nerve 

 and margin. A native of Diana's Peak, grows in tufts in most 

 thickets to be 2-4 feet high. 



I. Polypodium rugulosum. Willd. 5. 2046. Stipes hairy. Fronds 

 oblong, alternately bi-ternate, texture thin and soft, pinnoe, 

 lanceolate, obtuse. Leaflets dentate. Spors sub-marginal. 

 Found on Diana's Peak growing to the height of 2-3 feet, but 

 slender and every way delicate. 



I. Polypodium dicksoni folium. R. Stipes brown channelled and 

 scabeous. Fronds lanceolate, sub-triplinate, sub-opposite, 

 linear oblong, obtuse deeply obtuse crenate. Spots large, 

 one or two on each of the ultimate segments of the frond, the 

 margins of which turn down, and in part cover them. A 

 pretty, delicate, divided plant growing on Diana's Peak to 

 height 8-12 inches. 



I. Polypodium viscidium. R. Surculi flexuose, brown and 

 shaggy, stipes, etc., channelled and clothed with clammy 

 headed diverging soft hairs on a brown ground. Fronds 

 ovate, sub-oppositely triplinnate and superdecompound 



