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FLOBA OF SEYCHELLES AND ALDABEA. 



By W. B. Hemsley, LL.D., F.E.S. 



(Continued from Supplement II, p. 34.) 



[The circumstances under which the pubhcation of the second 

 Supplement to the present volume lias been interrupted are men- 

 tioned on p. 376 : the two following pages are printed in order 

 that the species described may appear during the present year. 

 If and wdien the publication of the Supplement is resumed, these 

 pages w^ill be included in it. — Ed. Jouen. Bot.] 



alterna bifida, rarius apice tantum irregulariter dentata ; 8 interiora 

 minora, tenuia, lanceolata, Integra, subacuta. Stamina 8, corolke 

 segmentis interioribus opposita ; filamenta brevissima. Staminodia 

 8, cum staminibus alterna, antheroidea, villosissima, apiculata. 

 Ovarium dense strigillosum, pilis simplicibus vel ingequaliter 

 furcatis supra basin affixis, saepius 8-loculare, loculis uniovulatis ; 

 stylus glaber, simplex, acutus, inclusus. Fructus ignotus. 



Make : In the mountains and on the seashore, Thomasset, 162. 



NoRTHEA Hook. f. in Hook. Ic. PI. t. 1473. 



The genus is limited to the two species named below, here 

 first distinguished from each other. Home collected imperfect 

 specimens of both species at different dates, about forty years ago, 

 and although he gave them different numbers he refers to them in 

 his notes as one and the same species. He obtained no good 

 flowers and the fruit of only one. Baker (Flora, 191), in a note 

 under Sideroxylon Lessertii, suggests that Home's n. 539 might be a 

 species of Sideroxylon. Subsequently Hartog named the specimen 

 bearing this number Mimiisops Hornei, which he designated a 

 trimerous Mimusojjs, though he never published a proper description 

 of it. How^ever, he correctly described the hexamerous structure 

 of the flowers on the Herbarium sheet, and Hooker cites the 

 name, though in a wrong form, as a synonym, wdiere he founds 

 Northea, instead of adopting the specific name. Flowers of 

 N. confitsa are still wanting, but there are obvious differential 

 characters in the leaves and fruits. Thus : 



Folia crassissima, oblonga, apice rotundata. Fructus ovoideus, 

 8-9 cm. diametro maximo. N. Hornei. 



FoHa tenuiora, lanceolata, acuta. Fructus subglobosus, 4-6 cm. 

 diametro. N. confusa. 



Northea Hornei Pierre, Not. Bot. Sapot. 1890, p. 11. N. 

 seychellana Hook. f. in Hook. Ic. PL 1884, t. 1473. Hemsl. Cat. 

 North Gallery ed. 4, n. 467, 486 and 501. Mimusops Hornei 

 Hartog in Journ. Bot. xvii (1879), 358. M. Horneana Index 

 Kewensis, iii, p. 246, et Hook. f. loc. cit. 



Mahe : Home, 539; Estridge; Miss North ; Button; Gardiner. 



Northea confusa Hemsl. sp. n. ; ab N. Hornei foHis lanceo- 

 latis acutis et fructu minore subgloboso facile distinguitur. 



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