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E. SoLANUM Jacquinii. Wdld. 1. 1041. 



E. nigrnm. Willd. 1. 1035. Garden Solanum; its leaves used 



as spinage. 

 I. SoLiDAGO spuria. Willd. 3. 2053. Conyza Rtigosa. Ait. Kew. 3. 184. 



Arboreous. Leaves short-petioled, cuneate-lanceolate, obtuse, 

 serrate*dentate, tomentose underneatli. Corymbs terminal (ultimately in 

 the forks,) length of the leaves, much crowded. 



Bastard- Cabbage-tree of the Islanders. On the tops of the highest 

 mountains it grows to be a large, but inelegant tree. The wood close- 

 orained, while and durable, but its chief use is for fuel. 



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SoLiDAGO Leucodendron. Willd. 3. 2054? 



Arboreous, very ramous. Leaves sessile, cuneate-lanceolar, anterior 

 margin serrate, smooth. Corymbs terminal, length of the leaves, many- 

 flowered : flowers subcylindric : female florets 6-10 in the ray, and 4-6 

 hermaphrodite in the centre. 



Cabbage-tree-gum-wood the vernacular name on St. Helena, where it is 

 indigenous on the mountains at an elevation of from 1500 to 2000 feet 

 above the sea, and grows to be a pretty large, very ramous tree, its ultimate 

 ramifications trichotomous, with dark brovvji bark, rendeje^i scabwns by 

 the numerous elevated scars of the fallen leaves. Leaves smoolJier and 

 less clammy than in the other species. Corymbs terminal, several together : 

 peduncles and divisions cylindric and smooth : Jloicers numerous, small and 

 white, the female florets revoUite ; bractes subulate ; scales of the calyx 

 decrease so as to be very minute at the base. The wood used for fuel 



chiefly. 



I. SoLiDAGO infegrifolia. R. 



Arboreous with far spreading branches and smooth glossy branchlets. 

 Leaves sparse, approximate, sessile, cuneate-lanceolate, obtuse, intire, 

 margins revolute, glossy above, while young slightly woolly underneath. 

 Corymbs terminal, length of the leaves, very ramous and large. 



