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SPENCER MOOUE: gamopetal^. 3-i9 



Dracophyllum kamosum ranch. Baio Ngo ; lowland serpentine scrub; 

 200 ft, 252. Mt. Dore ; abundant in serpentine scrub ; 100-2500 ft. G97. 

 River Dnmbea; vcrj common in scrub and woods and by streamsidcsj ser- 

 pentine; lowdand. 821, Port Bouquet; riverside pebbles and alluvium; 



50 ft.; serpentine. 2235. Taom ; abundant in serpentine scrub; 1000- 

 2000 ft. 2299. 



D. iNVOLUCK/VTUil Brongn. & Gris, Mt, Panie ; among rocks by river; 

 1500 ft. Gneiss. 1762. 



D. COMPACTUM S. Moore, sp. nov. Frulex elatus (fore nsqnc 4-meiralIs) ; 

 caule pauciramoso erecto valido griseo-pubescente ; foliis fere usque 30 cm. 

 long. 2'5 cm. lat. imbricatis ejongato-lanceolatis longe acuminatis apice 

 obtusis basi vagluuntibus margine integris (hac atqu(^ iliac obsolete serrulatis) 

 longltrorsum plurincrvibns rigidis glabris leviter nitidis ; ^or/^u^ compactis 

 in verticillos approximates ordinatls sccus rliacbin strictissimam vnlidani 

 griseo-Lirsutam 30 cm. long, digcstos ; lyedunculis circa 1 cm. long, bracteis 

 imbricatis omnino occlusis 1-floris ; hradeis inf. 2'5-3 cm. sup. 4 cm* long, 

 plurlseriatis ovato-lanceolatis acutis striatis ciliatis dorse puberulis ; sepalis 

 3 mm, long, lanccolatis acutis striatis ciliatis; coroUw albre tube calycem vix 

 excedente cylindrico extus glabro 4 mm. long, lobis oblongis obtusis tubuni 

 semixquantibns ; /ilamentis tube corollas adnatis antlieris 1'5 mm, long, vix 

 omnino inclusis juxta medium filamento affixis bifidis ; ovario depresse- 

 subgloboso glabro circa 1 mm. diam. ; stigmate miuuto 5-lobo. 



Flaine des Lacs ; abundant on dry slopes ; serpentine lowland. 371, 

 Near D. verticillatum LabilL, but readily known from it by reason of tlie 

 strictly racemose inflorescence, peduncles covered with imbricating bracts, 

 the narrower bracts and sepals, and relatively sliortor corolla. 



PLUMBAGINACEiE. 



Plumbago ZEYLAKicA L, IleOuere; littoral zone. 644. Canala ; forest, 

 1335. A species of the Old World tropics now widely diffused. ' 



PKIMULACE^. 



LvsTMACHiA DECUPviiENS Forst. Canalu ; old native cultivation area ; 

 1000 ft.; mica schist. 1173. East Asia, Indian Archipelago^ Polynesia. 



MYRSINACE^. 



M.ESA Novo-CALEDONICA Mcz, Mt. Mou ; moister part of Niaouli region 

 in forest; 800 ft.; cretaceous. 533- Mt. Dore; stream valley in serpen- 

 tine: GOO ft. G72. Mt. Humboldt; abundant in forest near creek; 



