Drake bel Castillo. - Note sur les Araliées. 6 , 



utrinque ad 7, petiolo brevi. Flores (6-7 mill. longi) in spicam 

 crassam (an racemi ramum ?) conferti, bracteis linearibus lan- 

 ceolatis, pedicellis brevissimis crassis in cupulam sub articula 

 tione dilatatis. Calycis tubus ovoideo-turbinatus, limbo breviter 

 et minute quinquedentato. Petala 10 oblonga acuta. Stamina 

 totidem, filamentis inflexis. Germinis loculi 5 ; styli totidera 

 Ile Maurice (Herb. Richard). 



15. P. Gommersoni sp. nov. (PI. II). 



Frutex glaber, foliis (40-50 cent, longis) pinnatis, foliolis 

 late ovatis vel obovatis basi breviter attenuatis (12-20 cent Ion 

 gis, 8-12 lads), nervis utrinque ad 12. Flores subsessiles laxe 

 spicati, pedicellis in cupulam dilatatis, spicis in racemum am- 

 plum fohum œquantem disposas, inflorescentiœ rachi crassa 

 Calycis tubus ovoideo-turbinatus, limbus cupularis. Petala et 

 stamina 7 ; styli erecti totidem; germen septemloculare. Bacca 

 ovoidea, apice depressa, costata, stylis incrassatis demum re- 

 curvis coronata. 



Ile Maurice {Commersôn ! Dupetit- Thouars ! Boivm !). 



16. P. racemosa sp. nov. - Gaston/a racemosa Richard 

 Herb. ' 



Frutex glaber, foliis (40 cent, et ultra longîs) pinnatis, fo- 

 liolis 5-9 conaceis oblongis obtusis (ad 16 cent, longîs 6 latis) 

 basi acutis leviter inœquilateris breviter petiolulaW, nervis 

 utrinque ad 9 . Flores (6-7 mill. longi) in spicam crassam ebrac 

 teatam conferti, spicis 2 vel pluribus in racemum folium œqU an- 

 tem vel eo breviorem sublaxe dispositi ; pedicelli brevissimi 

 sut > articulatione in cupulam dilatati. Calycis tubus ovoideo- 

 turbinatus, limbus brevis crenulatus. Petala 10 oblonga acuta 

 stamina totidem, filamentis apice inflexis. Styli 6-7 ; germinis 

 loculi totidem. & 



Ile Maurice (Herb. Richard). 



17. P. cupularis. - Polyscias cupularis Baker, Flora 



x \laiir. and Seych ., 127. 



Ile Maurice (teste Baker). 



18. P. Ayresii. — Polyscias Ayresii Baker, /. c . 

 Ile Maurice (Ayres). 



19- P. Maralia Decne et PI., in. Rev. hortïc. (1854), 105. _ 



