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E. Salex habylonica. Willd. 4. 671. Weeping Willow and two 

 other unascertained species. 



E. Saccharum officinavum. Willd. i. 321. Sugar-cane. 



I. Salsola salsa. Willd, i. 1312. Common over the most barren 

 parts of the island. 



E. Salvia officinalis. Willd. 3. 129. Common sage and coccinea 

 scarlet sage. 



E. Sambuci nigra. Willd. i. 1495. Common Elder. 



E. Sanseviera zeylanica. Willd. 2. 159. 



E. Scytalia litchi.(see Gaert sem, i. 197.) Litchi of Cliina, a well- 

 known fruit. 



E. Scytalia longa. R. Longan or Dragon's Eye, the small 

 round grey Litchi. 



E. Scytalia rambootan. R. Nepheliitm cappaceum. Linn. 

 Rambootan of the Malays. 



E. Senecia jacobea. Willd. 3. 1997. Common Ragwort. 



E. Sida lanceolatea and microphylla. Willd. 3. 736 and 739. 



E. Sigesbeckia ovientalis. Willd. 3.2219. A weed in gardens. 



E. Solanum tuberosum. Willd. i. 1033. Common Potatoes, se- 

 veral varieties. 



E. Solanum lycopersicum. Willd. i. 1033. Love apple. 



E. Solanum pseudo-capsicum. Willd, 1.1026. Bastard capsicum 



E. Solanum sodomann. Willd. i. 1043. Black spined Solanum. 



E. Solanum jacqumiri. Willd. i. 1041. 



E. Solanum nigrum. Willd. i. 1035. Garden solanum leaves 

 used as spinage. 



I. Solidago spuria. Willd. 3. 2053. Conyza rugosa. Ait, Kew, 

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

 obtuse serrate-dentate, tomentone underneath. Corymbs 

 terminal (ultimately in the forks and 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 grained, wliite and durable, 

 but chief use for fuel. 



I. Solidago leucodendron. Willd. 3. 2054. Arboreous, very 

 ramous. Leaves sessile, cuneate-lanceolate, anterior margin 

 serrate, smooth. Corymbs terminal, length of the leaves, 

 many flowered ; flowers sub-cylindric ; 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 mountain at an elevation of from 1,500 

 to 2,000 feet above the sea, and grows to be a pretty large 

 ramous tree, its ultimate ramification tricholomous with dark 

 brown bark, rendered scabious by the numerous elevated 

 scars of the fallen leaves. Leaves smoother and less clammy 

 than in the other species. Cor>'mbs terminal, several to- 

 gether ; peduncles and divisions cyUndric and smooth ; flowers 

 numerous, small and white, the female florets revolute, branches 

 subulate ; scales of the calyx decrease so as to be very minute 

 at the base. The wood used for fuel chiefly. 



