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E. Phaseohis htnatus. Willd. 3. 1031. Lima Bean. 

 E. Phillyea. Willd. 1. 42. Common Phillyrea. 

 E. Phlomis nepetifolia. Willd. 3. 1236. 



I. Phylica elliptica. R. Shrubby. Leaves opposite, short pe- 

 tioled, elliptic, rarely subovate, thick and hard, hoary and 

 concave underneath. Stipules four tern, ovate, concave. 

 Flowers in peduncled, axillary, hoary heads. Capsules tur- 

 binate. A native of the most elevated parts of Diana's Peak 

 and of the Sandy Bay range, where it grows fairly large, but 

 is a low spreading tree, there called the wild olive ; flowering 

 in July and the seeds ripen in March. The wood is dark 

 coloured, hard, and very useful. 



I. Phylica rosmarifolia. R. Arboreus, very ramous. Leaves 

 alternate, short petioled, lanceolar acute, lucid above, hoary 

 underneath, margins revoluto. Stipules subulate. Flowers 

 axillary subsessile. Wild Rosemary it is called by the islanders ; 

 and is found indigenous on moderately high mountains, where 

 it grows to be a middling sized useful timber tree of great 

 beauty and fragrance. The bark tolerably smooth ; the trunk 

 short, thick and crooked. The leaves bear resemblance to 

 those of Rosemary : lucid above and white beneath. Flowers 

 minute, pale greenish white. Capsules size of a pea, oval, 

 until dry-ripe bacciform, after they split into three. 



E. Phoenix dactylifera. Willd. 4. 730. A few trees only were 

 seen, though they thrive well and promise much benefit to the 

 island if carefully managed. 



E. Phyllanthus andrachnoides. Willd. 4. 575. 



I. Physalis begonifolia. R. 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 whole corol, its borders divided 

 into five, broad short unequal rounded segments. A native 

 of the rocky hills on the east and south sides of the island 

 and known by the name of box- wood. The trunk grows 

 single from two to four feet in height, and about as thick as 

 a man's arm ; its bark tolerably smooth and brownish. 

 Branches numerous and divide into innumerable alternate 

 villous branches. 



E. Physalis peruveana. Willd, 1. 1022. Brazil cherry, is very 

 common everywhere because the goats do not eat it, and 

 furnishes the island folk with ample supplies of large palatable 

 berries, without requiring the least care. 



E. Pinus longifolia. Lamb pin- tab 21. Of this magnificent 

 pine there are but one or two young trees in the Governor's 

 garden. 



Pinus 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 plantations. 



E. Pinus pirea. Willd. 4. 497. Stone pine. 



E. Pinus sylvestors. Willd. 4. 494. Scotch fir. 



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