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flowering (gall or abnormality). Sweet scent. Mt, Panic; forest ; 1500 £t. 



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1772. Small tree 15 ft. Leaves drooping, rcd^ootlied. 

 brown scales, caducous. Anthers yellow. 



Perianth of 



CRASSULACE^. 



Bryophvllum calycinum Salisl). Noumea ; abundant on roadside around 

 town, 9. Widely distributed. 



DROSERACE^. 



Drosera neocaledonica Hamet. Mts. to north of River Ngoye; bare 



serpentine earth ; 0-3500 ft. 



2093. 



Herbaceous perennial ; rosettes 



glandular, hairs red, rest of leaf pale green. Calyx and pedicels red. 

 Corolla white, widely open^ quickly withering. 



RHIZOPHORACEiE. 



Rhizophora mucronata Lam. Noumea, Port Ngoa ; wettest purt of 



mangrove swamp ; 



la. 



Tree 22 ft. Petals white. 



Calyx light green. 



Viviparous, Wood very hard. Noumea, Port Ngea ; mangrove swamps; 

 L Tree 25 ft. Widely distributed. 



Crossostylis granbiflora Brongn. Mont Mou ; streamside in damp 

 gulley ; 600 ft., cretaceous ; 552. Tree 30 ft. Adventitious roots from 

 lowest 4 ft. of trunk not usually reaching ground. Fruit mucilaginous 



inside. 



LYTHRACE^, 



SoNNERATiA alba Sm. Oucn Toro J 80. Mangrove aerating roots up to 

 9 in. in diameter branching at top, projecting about 1 foot from soil. 

 Perianth greenish outside. Stamens incurved iti budj falling off early. 

 Style long, bent, tubular, apical ring stigma. Australia, Java, etc. 



COMBRETACEiE. 



Terminalia rubricakpa Bak. fib, sp. nov. Arbor humilis IS-pedalis sec. 

 cl. detectorem ramis cortice cinereo obtcctis et cicatricibus foliornm 

 delapsorum notatis; foliis suborbicularibus vel obovato-suborbicularibus 

 7-11 cm.x8-ll'5 cm. ssepe paullo latioribus quam longis apice truncatis 

 vel emarginatis basi rotundatis glabris, nervis lateralibus 7-10 patentibus vel 



suffultis ; florilms 

 13 mm. lato endo- 



erecto-patentibus, petiolo brevissimo 3-4 mm. longo 

 delapsis ; fructu ovoideo apice acuminato 2 cm. longo, 10- 

 carpio durissimo, seminibus solitariis. 



Port Ngea, Noumea; littoral; 5. Fruit bright red^ exocarp flesliy, 

 endocarp very hard^ thick, spongy^ one central flat seed. Rachis of 



inflorescence 7-8 cm. Ions:. 



'obalanus. Allied to 1\ liltoralis Seem., but this 



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has narrower leaves and different fruit. 



