APPENDIX. 817 



E. Phyllanthus andrachnoides. Willd. 4. 575. 

 I. Physalis begonifolia. R. n. 



Shrubby and very ramous. Leaves in pairs, petioled, unequally 

 ovate-cordate, entire, and soft. Peduncles axillary, solitary, drooping one- 

 flowered. Calyx campanulate, larger than the white corol, its border 

 divided into 5, broad, short unequal rounded segnaents. 



A native of the rocky hills on the east and south sides of the island, and 

 known by the name Box-tcood. The trunk grows single to 2-4 feet in 

 heio^ht and about as thick as a man's arm ; its bark tolerably smooth and 

 brownish Branches numerous and divide into innumerable alternate 

 villous branchlets. 



E. Physalis peruviana. Willd. I. 1022. Brasil-cherry , is very common 

 every where, because the goats do not eat it, and furnishes the inha- 

 bitants with ample supplies of large, palatable berries, without the 

 least care 

 E. PiNus iingifolia. Lamb. pin. tab. 21. Of this magnificent pine there is 

 but one or two young trees in the Governor's garden. 



Pinaster. Willd. 4. 496. Grows well and to a great size on the 



south side of the island, also in the Governor's garden and planta- 

 tions. 



E, Pinea. Wil'd. 4. 497. Stone pine. ^ 



E. sy'vestris Willd. 4. 494. ScotjeV/fir. f 



PisuM sativum. Wi'ld. 3. 1070. Garden pea, a few varieties. 

 E, PiTiosPORUM Tobira. Bot. Mag. 1396. 

 I. Plant AGO robusta. R. 



Shrubby. Leaves crowded round the apices of the robust ligneous 

 branches, linear, intire, withering. Spikes few, axillary, cylindric, long- 

 peduncled. 



A native of the tops of the moderately high hills over the island, where 

 it grows to be a stout shrub, with but few very thick, simple, son)e\Tihat 

 woody branches ; bark strongly marked with the innumerable scars of the 

 fallen leaves. 



