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Fleurya wstuans, Gaud. Eagle Island, Providence 



Island. 

 Gasuarina equisetifolia, Forst. Poivre Island. 

 Cyperus ligularis, Linn. Eagle Island, Providence 



Island. 

 Cyperus rotundas, Linn. Du Lise Island. 



Fimbn'stylis glomerata, Nees. Providence Island. 



Setaria glauca, Beauv. Gloriosa Island. 



Eleusine eegyptiaca, Pers. Bird Island, Providence 



Island, Eagle Island. 

 Eragrosfis tenella, Beauv. Du Lise Island 

 Xephrohpis e.caltata, Schott. Isle des Roches. 



Summary. 



Cerf Islets, Providence Reef . 

 Poivre Island, Arnirante group 

 Alphonse Island, Masoarene group . 

 Gloriosa Island .... 



4 species. 

 4 „ 

 3 „ 

 1 „ 



Du Lise Island, Gloriosa group 

 Bird Island, Seychelles group 

 Eagld Island, Arnirante group 

 Isle des Roches, Arnirante group . 

 Providence Island, Mascarene group 



The majority of the plants in the foregoing list are very widely spread, and details of 

 their distribution will be found in the geographical tables and lists in Part III., pp. 107- 

 117, and pp. 232, 233 ; but there are a few exceptions, which are interesting as indicating 

 a probable former closer connection of the islands of this region. They are appended 

 with their distribution : — 



Cleome (Polanisia) strigosa ...... Island of Zanzibar and Mozambique. 



Hibiscus hornet ........ Praslin Island, Seychelles : endemic. 



Ochrosia borbonica ........ Mauritius, Seychelles, Bourbon. 



Ficus nautarum ........ Seychelles. 



SMALLER PACIFIC ISLANDS. 1 



Marshall Islands (North-western Polynesia). 



To the Berliner Gartenzeitung of 1884, E. Betche contributes a sketch of the 

 Vegetation of the Marshall Islands, where he spent six weeks, but succeeded in finding 

 only fifty-six species of plants, though he visited six of the Atolls. He mentions the 

 folio wino; : — 



Calophyllurn inophyllum. 

 Triumfetta sp. 

 Pemphis acidula. 

 Terminalia sp. 

 Barringionia speciosa. 

 Morinda citrifolia. 

 SecBvola koenigii. 

 Cerbera sp. 



Tuber ncemontana. 



Toumefortia argentea. 



Cassytha sp. 



IL rniiiulid [irltata. 



Tacea sp. 



Pandanus odoratissimus. 



Thouarea sp. 



Maldon Island. (About 155° "W. long., and 4° S. lat.) 

 Among the unpublished lists of plants from various parts of the world, in the Kew 

 Herbarium, is the following by Sir Joseph Hooker. They were collected by James Macrae, 

 1 For lists of plants from a number of other Pacific Islands, see Part III., p. 116. 



