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I. Solidago integrifolia. R. Arborcus with fax-spreading 

 branches, and smooth glossy branclilets. Leaves sparse, 

 approximate, sessile, cuneate-lanceolate, obtuse entire, margins 

 revolute, glossy abo\e while young, sUghtly woolly underneath. 

 Corymbs terminal, length of the leaves, very ramous and 

 large. Black cabbage-tree. The vernacular name. On Sandy 

 Bay Ridge it grows to be one of the largest, some say the largest 

 indigenous tree on the island, the trunk about 5-6 feet in 

 circumference ; the coma very ramous, large and spreading ; 

 wood white, hard and serviceable for various purjioscs, but 

 fuel chiefly. Flowers white, appearing in January, female 

 florets 20-30 inches the ray ; male in the disk and numerous ; 

 receptacle naked, convex pappus hairy. Calyx subcylindric, 

 imbricated scales numerous, linear, acute. 



I. Solidago cuncifolia. R. Arboreus. Leaves sessile, cuneiform, 

 grossly serrate on the anterior margins, very rugose (but scarce 

 villous), rcdunck-s terminal, length ol the leaves, few flow- 

 ered. Hermaphrodite and female florets about two of each. 

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

 sized tree, its ultimate ramilicalions dichotomous, bark thcrcol 

 olive brown. Leaves less crowded than in Lcucodendron 

 but l.ir^cT, anterior half deeply serrate ; posterior half entire 

 and tajier much, all arc very rigosc and villous underneath. 

 Peduncles terminal, simple and one flowered, or soon divide 

 into two, tliree of four long, slender, smooth, one flowered 

 pedicclls ; flowers while ; calyx cyUndric, etc., as in Lcuco- 

 dendron ; the female florets are nearly as numerous as the 

 hermaphrotlitc lanccolar, apices three dentate, spreading at 

 first, but by age become revolute. 



L Solidago rotundiflora. R. Arborcus. Leaves alternate, long 

 petioled from oval to sub-rotund, scrratc-dcntatc, smooth, 

 wliiic young sliining with clammy varnish. Panicles terminal, 

 spreading, length of the leaves very ramous and sub-rotund. 

 A native of the heights of St. Helena, where it is called llic 

 Bastard Gum-wood by some, and Cabbage tree by others. 

 On the lulls and mountains it grows to be a tree of about 20 

 feet in height, with a crooked trunk, which is thick in pro- 

 portion to tlic size ol the tree ; its bark and that of the branches 

 also almost black, but pretty smooth except for the numerous 

 scars left by the >' '1 leaves. Wood white, hard and 



durable. Petioles < ilcd, nearly as long as the leaves. 



Panicles terminal when they first apixiar, but by the growth 

 of two or three branchlcls from the ajwx of the twig they 

 soon stand in the fork thereof ; this is the general habit of all 

 those syngencsious trees found by me in this island. Flowers 

 numerous, small and white, 3-10 ligulatc revolute female 

 florets in the ray, and 7-8 tubular male in the disk. Sonchus 

 oleraceus and lacvis. Common sow thistles. 



E. Spactiitm junccum. Willd. 3. 926. Broom. 



I. SpilatUhus tcirandra. R. Slirubby. Leaves opposite, short, 



