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Bfack-cabhage-tree* the vernacular name ; on Sandy Bay ridge it grows 

 to be one of the largest, some say the largest indigenous tree ou the island ; 

 the trunk about 5-6 feet in circumference ; the coma very ramous large and 

 spreading ; loood white, hard and serviceable for various purposes, but fuel 

 chiefly. Flowers white, appearing in January, female florets 20-30 in the 

 ray : male in the disk, and niimerous ; receptacle naked, convex : pappus 

 hairy. Calyx subcylindric, imbricated : scales numerous, linear, acute. 



1. SoLiDAGo cuneifolia. R. 



Arboreous. Leaves sessile, cuneiform, grossly serrate on the 

 anterior margins, very rugose (but scarce villous). Peduncles terminal, 

 length of the leaves, few flowered ; hermaphrodite and female florets about 

 2 of each. 



He-cabbage-tree of the islanders. It grows to be a middle-sized tree 

 its ultimate ramifications dichotomous : bark thereof olive-brown. Leaves 

 less^crowded than in Leucadendrou but larger, anterior half deeply serrate : 

 posterior half entire and taper much, all are very rugose, and villous under- 

 neath. Peduncles terminal, simple and one-flowered, or soon divide into 



2, 3 or 4 long, slender, smooth, one-flowered pedicells: flowers white : 

 calyx cylindric, &c. as in Leucodendron ; the female florets are nearly as 

 numerous as the uerMaphrodite, lanceolar, apices 3-dentate, spreading at 

 first, bftt/by age^come revolute. 



I. SoLiDAGO rotundifoUa. R. 



Arboi-eous. Leaves alternate, long-petioled, from oval to subrotund, 

 serrate-dentate, smooth, while young shining with clammy varnish. Pani- 

 cles terminal, spreading, length of the leaves, very ramous and subrotund. 

 A native of the heights of St. Helena, where it is called Bastard Gum- 

 wood by some, and Cabbage-tree by others. On the hills and mountains 

 it grows to be a tree of about 20 feet in height, with a crooked trunk wliich 

 is thick in proportion to the size of the tree ; its bark and that of the 

 branches almost black, but pretty smooth, except for the numerous scars 

 * White-wood -cabbage-tree, see Bidens arborea. 



