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Figures of the adult state are given in Baillon's Histoire 
— elle des Plantes de Madagascar G. part of Grandidier’s 
ork referred to above), plates 261-2 and 2624. —- 262D. ; and 
sm representing habit are reproduced in the Bull. Mus. ' Hist. 
Nat. Par., i. des pp. 216-217. The genus is now referred to 
the Sapindacez 
* The Last of its Race" : This must be the epitaph on all that 
remains of an interesting “ Cabbage tree," that has just disappeared 
rom the flora of vie island “of St. Helena. It was originally 
described b Sir Joseph Hooker under the name of Psiadia 
rotundifolia, and figured by Melliss in his work on St. Helena, 
t. 41 elliss wrote in 1875, “this plant had almost been classed 
with the extinct species, until, after long and patient search, I 
Hi aia the great delight of ee one tree of it in the 
Ait. It existed i in atten gardens after i t had bed me extinet 
main central ridge amongst ferns and cabbage "Xm about the 
locality of Casons . . but it is no longer ther 
Psiadia rotundifolia was figured in the Gardener Chronicle, 
1888 As ), pp. 180, 181, and referred to as follow 
he interest attachii ng to the tree is that i iv is the last 
aiding representative of its race in the island of St. Helena. 
Formerly, doubtless, there were many more, but goats and 
the species perii of man have erg Ae this, and cepe 
ci _in 
isies, Chrysanthemums, soiree as all know them in 
our gardens, are not to be classed with s, but here we have a 
oer nearly allied, generally, to Astér, hich forms a good sized 
tree with sprea ding n aked branches, bearing small, stalked, 
spathulate, toothed itirbos crowded towards the ends of the 
h IY 
The rom Director of Kew who visited St. Helena in 1883, 
and wrote a report on its agriculiural resources for the Colonial 
Office—(African No. 275, C.O., January, 1884) contributed the 
Po dmg further particulars to the Gardeners’ Bron 1888 (1.) 
