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branchen, crowded with innumerable, small, delicate, villous, subarticulate, 

 brittle ramuli. Bark of the old ligneous parts, dark brown and pretty 

 smooth. Leaves opposite subrotund, fleshy, convex and smooth above, 

 hollow underneath: size of a large pin's head, &c., almost exactly as in 

 Porfiilaca quadrijlda, even to the quatern floral-leaves. Petioles short, 

 stem-clasping. Flowers terminal, solitary, sessile in the bosom of the 4 

 floral leaves. Calyx subcylindric, 5-grooved, 5-toothed, withering. Corol 

 5-petalled, campanulate, large for the size of the foliage, pure white, and 

 like the calyx, withering. Filaments 5, nearly as long as the petals, and 

 with them alternately inserted into the receptacle ; at the base broad, and 

 seem united there, but are not. Anthers yellow. Germ superior, ovate, 

 sn)ooth, one-celled, and contains several ovula attached to the lower half of 

 two opposite, parietal receptacles. Style length of the stamina, apex-bifld. 

 Stigmas globular. Capsule ovate, hid in the withered calyx and corol, 

 1-celled, 2-valved, opening from the apex. Seeds few, attached as in the 

 germ. 



E. Beta vulgaris and sicla. Willd. 1. 1303. Red and green Beet and 

 Mangel Wurzel belong to the first, and the common white Beet to 

 the second. 



I. BiDENs arborea. R. 



Arboreous. Leaves opposite, short-petioled, oblong-ventricose, 

 serrate. Panicles terminal, brachiate, corymbose. 



White-wood-cabbage tree the vernacular name on St. Helena, where it 

 grows on the .south face of Dianas Peak to be a pretty large tree, with 

 straight upright trunk, and dark-coloured, pretty smooth bark ; the young 

 shoots are rough with much short brown hair. Leaves from oval to oblong, 

 very equally gland serrate, smooth above, somewhat villous underneath. 

 Stipules none. Panicles terminal while young in flower, large, subcorym- 

 bose, pretty well crowded with opposite, hairy ramifications and their sub- 

 divisions. Flowers conical. Calyx scarce calycled, composed of a very 

 few leaflets, and most of them embrace a floret like the scales of the recep- 

 tacle. Seeds 4-sided, strigose, particularly the 4 angles, each crowned 



