'A FLORA OF SEYCHELLES AND ALDABRA 



prevented me from carrying out this plan. Now it has been 

 decided, with the permission of Prof. J. Stanley Gardiner and the 

 Director of Kew, to publish the novelties and emendations in 

 synonymy, in anticipation of the complete list of the species and 

 of the report on the general geography of the constituents of the 

 flora under preparation on behalf of the Percy Sladen Trustees. 

 It should be explained that additional materials have enabled the 

 WTiter to make some emendations in Mr. J. G. Baker's determina- 

 tions, chiefly pubhshed in the Flora of Mauritius (1877). At the 

 same time he is fully aware that a more critical study of the 

 French collections from the region would probably lead to 

 the reduction of a number of his proposed new species, especially 

 those from Aldabra. 



Capparidace^. 



Mserua Dupontii Hemsl., sp. n. ; inter species Africanas 

 foliis compositis et floribus petaliferis differt. 



Frutex prseter inflorescentiam glabrescens, ramis teretibus 

 creberrime albo-verruculosis. Folia ssepius palmatim trifoliolata, 

 interdum quadrifoliolata, stipulata, petiolata ; stipulse minutae, 

 acutse, cito deciduas ; petiolus gracilis, 1-5 cm. longus ; foliola 

 papyracea vel fere membranacea, brevissime petiolulata, inaequalia, 

 forma variabilia, lanceolata, oblonga, ovata, elliptica vel interdum 

 fere orbicularia, 2-8 cm. longa, apice obtusa vel rotundata, simul 

 apiculata, basi rotundata vel subcuneata. Flores parvi, 10 20 in 

 racemes terminales quam folia vix longiores dispositi ; bractece 

 lineares vel filiformes, circiter 5 mm. longse ; pedicelli graciles, 

 puberuli, 1-1-5 cm. longi. Calyx primum rufo-puberulus ; tubus 

 brevissimus, inflatus, persistens ; limbi lobi 4, valvati, obovato- 

 spathulati, 7-8 mm. longi, 3-nervii, apice dorso breviter cornuti, 

 margine ciliolati. Petala 4, obovata, circiter 4 mm. longa, breviter 

 unguiculata, venosa. Discus obscurus. Stamina circiter 12-16, 

 1-5-2 cm. longa, filamentis filiformibus basi connatis. Gynophorum 

 cum ovario stamina paulo excedens. Ovarium pluriovulatum. 

 Fructus cylindricus, torulosus (maturus non visus), paucispermus. 



Aldabra : Fryer, 64 ; Dupont, 136, 137. 



BlXACE^. 



Aphloia seychellensis Hemsl., sp. n. ; inter species affines 

 floribus minoribus et sepalis tenuibus distincta. 



Frutex glaber, ramis florigeris graciliusculis. Folia spiraliter 

 posita, distincte petiolata, oblongo-lanceolata vel interdum ovata, 

 3-10 cm. longa, sed sgepius tantum 6-8 cm. longa, obtusa, crenulata. 

 Flores in axillis foliorum solitarii vel saepius 2-5, fasciculati, 

 6-7 mm. diametro ; pedicelli filiformes vel fere capillares, basi 

 sursumque bracteolati, bracteolis minimis squamiformibus. Sepala 

 tenuia, baud coriacea, suborbicularia, maxima circiter 3 mm. lata. 

 Stamina sepala paullo superantia. — A. mauritiana Baker, Flora, 

 12, pro parte. A. madagascariensis var. seychellensis, Clos in 

 Ann. Sc. Nat. s6r. 4, viii, 274. 



Make : Thomasset, 25, 172 ; Dupont, 44 ; Gardiner. Sil- 



