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channelled, base clothed with long, black chaffy scales: pinnae remote; 

 leaflets pinnatifed ; segments short-linguiform, serrulate, obtuse. 



A stout species of from 2 to 6 feet high ; a native of the south face of 

 Diana s Peak. 



I. Aster ghitinosus. R. (compare with hirtus. Willd. 3. 2016.) 



Shrubby, tender parts woolly. Leaves from cuneate to spatulate, 

 apices rounded, and grossly serrate, fleshy, rugose with very prominent 

 veins underneath. Peduncles terminal, ultimately axillary subsolitary, 

 Icnath of, or lonoerthan the leaves, one-flowered, 



A native of the most naked, barren rocks on the south side of the Island, 

 where it grows to be a middling sized shrub. The clammy leaves are 

 frao-rant. Bractes scattered over the long clammy peduncles, and of a 

 long-clavate shape. The flotcers are large, pure white. Goats are said to 

 be fond of it, and while browsing on it, the clammy exudation thereof is 

 collected on their beards, (See history of 3fasUcJi.) 



E. Atriplex triangularis. H^illd. 4. 963. Triangular Atriplex. 

 E. Atropa physaloides. Linn. Blue-flowered Atropa. 



E. Bambusa arundinacea. Willd. 2. 245. Common Bamboo, 



E, Barrinotonia speciosa. Willd. 3. 345. Laurel-leaved Barringtonia,. 



Beatsonia, R. Pentandria Monogynia. 



Generic Character. Ca/?/a7 5-toothed. Coro/ 5-petalled, campanu- 

 late. Germ superior, 1-celled, containing many ovula attached to 

 the two opposite sides of the cell. Style bifid. Stigmas globular. 

 Capsule 1-celled, 2-valved. Seeds a few. 



Named in honour of Colonel Alexander Beatson, Governor of ^S"^. 

 Helena. 



I. Beatsonia portulacifolia. R. 



St. Helena Tea the vernacular name on that island, where it grows 

 on the naked rocky mountains and hills on the soutli side, to be a very 

 ramous shrub, of a middling size. Trunk short, soon dividing into numerous 



