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close grained, liard and heavy ; in short it is so very like ebony as to have 

 procured it that name from the islanders. 



The few trees now found alive in their native soil and situation are from 

 10 to 15 feet high, their trunks crooked and about as thick as a man's thigh ; 

 the branches very numerous, spreading, &c. &c., and at this season when 

 the young foliage is expanding, the flower buds are also to be seen, and in 

 this state generally 2 on each peduncle ; whereas in the cultivated plants 

 rarely more than one. 

 E. Eleusine corocana. R. Cynosnrus Corocanus. Linn. 



E. indica. Gccrt. Cynosurus. Linn. 



E. calyciiui. R. 



E. Erodium sempervivum. R. Pelargonium Cotyledonis. Wilkl. 3. 674. 



Shrubby, succulent and extremely tortuous. Umbels long-peduncled 

 decompound. Leaves subcordate, downy, rugose, some lobate-crenate, 

 some peltate. 



A native of the barren rocky precipices on the south side of the island, 

 and known by the name Old father live for ever. It grows to be a large 

 spreading shrub, with innumerable, thick, succulent, extremely crooked 

 branches, the apices obtuse, and thence both leaves and umbels spring. 

 Bark thick and fleshy, the surface dark brown, and peels off in small frag- 

 ments. Leaves long petioled and soft with down. Stipules small, trian- 

 gular and acute. Peduncles terminal, generally single, very long, erect, 

 coloure^l, and villous ; the umbellets numerous, and all the divisions long, 

 coloured, and villous. Involvcre scai'ce any; involucells of a few small 

 acute scales. /-Yoti'ers numerous, pure, white, calyx, 5-toothed; the rest 

 as in the genus. Every part is to me void of smell. 



E. Erythrina caffra. Willd. 3. 914. Cape-coral-tree. 



E. Euphorbia rosea. H^i7/dl. 2. 895. French-grass of the islanders. 



E. — Peplus. Willd. 2. 903. Small-spurge. 



E. Eugenia Jambos. Willd. 2. 959. Rose-apple. 



E. Ficus Carica. The common Fig : grows freely here, and produces 

 good crops of excellent fruit ; but like every thing else in rural 

 economy too much neglected. 



