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ST. HELENA. 
Gardenia, Linn. 
346. G. florida, Linn. — The Cape Jasmine is one of the most 
deliciously perfumed of the cultivated garden plants on the high 
land, where at alt. 4 it thrives well. — Hab. China and Cape of Good 
Hope. 
347. G. Thunbergii, L. f.— Starry Gardenia ; mentioned by 
Roxburgh as growing in the Island. Bot. Mag. 1004.— Hah. 
Cape of Good Hope. 
348. G. radicans, W. — Rooting Gardenia ; also mentioned by 
Roxburgh. — Hab. China. 
Hedyotis, Linn. 
349. *H. arborea, Roxb. — The native Dogwood ; one of the re- 
maining indigenous plants, and perhaps taking the fifth place for 
abundance now in the Island. It grows to a tall, slim tree, about 
twenty feet in height, on the high central ridge from Diana’s Peak 
to High Peak, alt. 5 4, extending down on the northern side some 
two or three hundred feet. It flowers with bunches of small 
white blossoms in the months of January and February, seeding in 
March to June. Plate 35. Also Hk. Icon. Plant. 1031. 
Plectronia, Linn. 
350. P. mundtiana, Pappe. — Several trees grow on the high 
land between White Gate and Plantation House, to a height of 
twenty or thirty feet, and bear a sort of berry, pink in colour* when 
ripe, and much in request by the native children, who eat its 
sweet, succulent, outer covering ; rather rare.— Hab. S. Africa. 
351. j. . spinosa, Ivlotz. A shrubby plant, growing at Rock 
Cottage, to a height of ten or twelve feet ; the blossoms are small 
and white, and the branches are thinly covered with long thorns. 
Flowers, but does not seed. Very rare.— Hab. S. Africa. 
Serissa, Comm. 
352. S. foetida, Comm. — From its peculiar odour commonly 
called “ Stinking White Flower.” A very small plant, with white 
star-shaped flowers, growing uncultivated in gardens, but rare, alt. 
3 - 25, at Oakbank, The Hermitage, &c. — Hab. Japan. 
