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E. Melia robusta. R. Is also a large timber tree from India. 



E. ■ Azedarach. Willd. 2. 558. A good and beautiful timber tree ; a 



native of China, &c. 

 E. Melissa officinalis. Willd. 3. 146. Balm. 

 E. Mentha viridis. Linn., and two or three undetermined species of 



Mint. 

 E. Mesembryanthemum. Fig Mary-gold. Several species Dr. R. savv 



in gardens ; they were from the Cape of Good Hope originally. 

 E. Mesvii^vs japonica. Willd.2.\0\0. Louquat of the Chinese This 



most elegant useful tree is perfectly at home here, and in time, with 



a little care, will be highly beneficial to St. Helena. 

 E. Michelia Champaca. Willd. 2. 1260. In one garden only. 

 I. MiKANiA arborea. R. 



Arboreous, with straight trunk. Leaves alternate, petioled, oblong, 

 smooth, gland-dentate-serrate. Panicles terminal, drooping. Calyx simple, 

 cylindric, 5-toothed, 5-flowered. 



She-cabbage tree the vernacular name. In the forests which decorate 

 the south face of Sandy-bay ridge, it grows plentifully to be a tall .«lender 

 straight tree, particularly while young ; for by age it becomes bent to one 

 side, and well furnished with crooked brittle branches. The u-ood is white, 

 and the pith, which is used for tinder, in very large quantity. Yuuig shoots 

 smooth and of a bright purple colour ; whilc/the trees are y<mrig, .-a^i^mider 

 6-8 feet, simple, with the leafy top resembling an highly-coloured colewort, 

 hence the vernacular name ; when in this stage the leaves are generally 

 from 1 to 2 feet long, by 4-8 inches broad ; in old stunted trees 2-3 inches 

 long, by 1-2 broad. Panicles rather thin, subdichotomous, coloured like 

 the petioles, &c. corymbiforra. Bracies single, smooth and .sm-^ll under 

 each division, besides others on the pedicells, and round the ba.>e of the 

 simple, cylindric, smooth, 5-toothed calyx, which, when the seeds are ripe 

 splits into 5, linear, recurved leaflets. 



E. Mimosa arabica. R. Acacia. Willd. 4. 1085. 



E. Serissa. R. or Mauritius black-wood. 



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