316 APPENDIX. 



E. Pentapetes. Linn; Pterospermum suberifoliwn. Willd. 3. 723. Saw 

 only one tree on the island, it was reared in the Company's nursery 

 from seed sent from Bengal by Dr. Roxburgh. 



E. Phaseolus vulgaris. Willd. 3. 1030. Several varieties of Kidney- 

 bean. 



E. lunatus. Willd. 3. 1031. Lima-bean 



E. Phillyrea media. Willd. 1, 42. Common Phillyrea. 



E. Phlomis nepetifolia. Willd. 3. 1236. 



I. Phvlica elliptica. R. 



Shrubby. Leaves opposite, short-petioled, elliptic, rarely subovate, 

 thick and hard, hoary and concave underneath. Stipules 4-tern, ovate, 

 concave. Flowers in peduncled, axillary, hoary heads. Capsules tur- 

 binate, 



A native of the most elevated parts of Diana's Peak, and of the Sandy 

 Bay range, where it grows to be a pretty large, but low spreading tree, 

 there called the wild Olive ; flowering in July and the seed ripen in March. 

 The wood i.s dark-coloured, hard, and very useful. 



1. Phylica rosmarinifolia. R. 



Arboreous, very ramous. Leaves alternate, short petioled, lanceolar, 

 acute, lucid above, hoary underneath, margins revolute. Stipules subulate. 

 Flowc^js axillary, subsessile. 



Wild Rosemary it is called by the islanders ; and is found indigenous on 

 moderately high mountains, where it grows to be a middling-sized useful 

 timber tree of great beauty and fragrance. The bark tolerably smooth ; 

 the trunk short, thick, and crooked. The leaves bear an exact resemblance 

 to those o( Rosemary : lucid above and white underneath. Floicers minute, 

 pale greenish white. Capsules size of a pea, oval, until dry-ripe bacciform, 

 after they split into 3. 



E. Phcenix dactylifera. Willd. 4. 730. A few trees only were seen, 

 though they thrive well, and promise much benefit to the island if 

 carefully managed. 



