THE PLANT WORLD 



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before seen growing near the edge of the sea. One of them iPemphis 

 acidula), called "Nigas" by the natives, is a bush with grayish pubescent 

 branches and small sessile, crowded, densely pubescent leaves. Its small 

 axillar>' pinkish flowers have a regular six-parted campanulate calyx 

 and 6 petals, alternating with the calyx-segments. The calyx is 



Flowering branch and detached flower of Scaevola kofnigii. 



12-ribbed. and between the segments there are small intermediate teeth ; 

 stamens, 12. 



The other sea-shore plant was Scaevola koenigii, called ' ' Nanaso ' ' by 

 the natives, a large bush woody below, with cylindrical smooth green 

 branches, obovate leaves tapering at the base and having a stout midrib; 



