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I. Solidago integrifolia. R, Arboreus with far-spreading 

 branches, and smooth glossy branchlets. Leaves sparse, 

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

 revolute, glossy above while young, slightly 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 purposes, 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 cuneifolia. R. Arboreus. Leaves sessile, cuneiform, 

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

 villous). Peduncles terminal, length of the leaves, few flow- 

 ered. Hermaphrodite and female florets about two 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 Leucodendron 

 but larger, anterior half deeply serrate ; posterior half entire 

 and taper much, all are very rigose and villous underneath. 

 Peduncles terminal, simple and one flowered, or soon divide 

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

 pedicells ; flowers white ; calyx cylindric, etc., as in Leuco- 

 dendron ; the female florets are nearly as numerous as the 

 hermaphrodite lanceolar, apices three dentate, spreading at 

 first, but by age become revolute. 



I. Solidago rotundiflora. R. Arboreus. Leaves alternate, long 

 petioled from oval to sub-rotund, serrate-dentate, smooth, 

 while young shining 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 the 

 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, which is thick in pro- 

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

 also almost black, but pretty smooth except for the numerous 

 scars left by the decayed leaves. Wood white, hard and 

 durable. Petioles channelled, nearly as long as the leaves. 

 Panicles terminal when they first appear, but by the growth 

 of two or three branchlets from the apex of the twig they 

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

 those syngenesious trees found by me in this island. Flowers 

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

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

 oleraceus and laevis. Common sow thistles. 



E. Spactium junceum. Willd. 3. 926. Broom. 



I. Spilanthus tetrandra. R. Shrubby. Leaves opposite, short, 



