REPORT ON THE BOTANY OF THE ATLANTIC ISLANDS. 23 



URTICACE^. 

 Ficus noronhae, Oliver. 



Ficus noronha; Oliver, n. sp. 



Arbor glabra, ramis crassis augulatis. Folia petiolata,^ teuuiter coriacea, obovato- 

 elliptica vel elliptica, 3-6 poll, longa, apice obtusa [obtusissima vel rotundata], basi obtusa 

 vel anguste cordata, iutegerrima, glaberrima, nervo medio subtus prominente, venis 

 primariis lateralibus utrinque 6-7; petiolus [incrassatus] 3-12 lineas longus ; stipulaa 

 caducse, oblongo-lanceolatse, longe acuminata?, acutse, 1— 1-J poll, longse. Receptacula 

 depresso-globosa, 6-9 lineas diametro, glabra, laevia, sessilia, solitaria, bracteis 2-3 

 basalibus coriaceis late rotundatis instructa [juniora geminata bracteis plurimis omnino 

 iuvolventia]. Flores stipitati vel sessiles ; periantbii segmenta concava, obtusa ; stigma, 

 ut videtur, bifidum, papillosum.'' — Hook., Ic. PI., xiii. p. 18, t. 1222. Descriptio parum 

 mutata. 



St Michael's Mount. All over the upper part of the rock — Moseley. 



MONOCOTYLEDONES. 

 CYPERACE^E. 



Cyperus ligularis, Linn. 



Cyperus ligularis, Linn., Amoen. Acad., v. p. 31 ; Kunth, Enum., ii. p. 79; Griseb., Fl. Brit. W. 

 Ind., p. 566. 



Fernando-Noronha. Moseley. 

 Tropical America and Africa. 



Cyperus densiflorus, Meyer. 



Cyperus densiflorus, Meyer, Fl. Esseq., p. 34 ; Mart., Fl. Bras., ii. 1, p. 41 ; Kunth, Enum., PI. ii. p. 104. 



Fernando-Noronha. Moseley. 



Brazil. 



We have not seen the specimen of this species which is mentioned in the original cata- 

 logue under the name of Cyperus schraderianus, Mart., which Martius cites as a synonym 

 of the above. 



GRAMINE^E. 

 Panicum colonum, Linn. 



l'anicum colonum, Linn., Sp. PL, ed. 2, p. 84 ; Griseb., Fl. Brit. W. Ind., p. 545. 

 Oplismenus colonus, H. B. K., Nov. Gen. et Sp., L p. 109 ; Kunth, Enum., i. p. 142. 



Fernando-Noronha. Moseley. 

 Common in all tropical countries. 



