FLORA OF SEYCHELLES AND ALDABRA 9 



Forma 2. Fratex inermis, ramis graciliusculis flexilibus. 

 Folia ambitu variabilia sed s^piiis elliptica vel orbicularia et 

 4-6 cm. diametro, crenulata. Cymas minimoe, paucitiorgB. Flores 

 minimi. 



Aldabra: Dupont, 19, 19 bis, 95, 101; Fryer, 11; Tliomasset, 

 231, 215, 216. 



Judging from the numerous specimens this must be one 

 of the commonest shrubs in Aldabra. Dupont names it Bois la 

 Fumce. 



Forma 3. Frutex inermis, ramis rectis olongatis. Folia 

 breviter petiolata, tenuiter coriacea, ovata vel interdum fere orbicu- 

 laria 6-8 cm. longa, circiter 5 cm. lata. Flores in axillis foliorum 

 solitarii vel cymosi, cymis 3-5-lloris. 



Aldabra : Dupont, 49. 



This is perhaps nothing more than a luxuriant specimen of 

 no. 2. Dupont gives it the same popular name Bois la Fiimec. 

 Gynfiiosjjoria senegalensis, var. inermis, forma [3. chartacea 

 Loesener, in Bull. Herb. Boiss., iv, 430, sine descriptione, may 

 belong to this form. It was collected in Aldabra by A. Voeltzkow. 



I have referred the specimens of Celastrus cited above to 

 C. senegalensis, as understood and defined by Prof. D. Oliver, not 

 because I feel quite convinced that they all belong to G. sene- 

 galensis Lam., but because any other, possibly more satisfactory, 

 classification would involve the critical examination of an enormous 

 quantity of material from the most widely distant districts of 

 tropical Africa, to say nothing of the Mediterranean region and 

 extra-tropical South Africa. 



Hippocrateace^. 



Hippocratea, species nova ? 



Frutex ope ramulorum lateralium aphyllorum scandens, omnino 

 glaber. Eami florigeri rigidi, creberrime lenticellati, internodiis 

 quam foHis brevioribus. Folia opposita, breviter petiolata, coriacea, 

 obcordata, obovata, vel nonnunquam elliptica, cum petiolo 3-5 cm. 

 longa, 2-3-5 cm. lata, venosa, supra nitida, marginata. Flores 

 ignoti ; alabastra minuta tantum visa. 



St. Pierre : Bushy climber not found elsewhere. Dupont, 4. 



Ehamnace^. 



Smythea Dupontii, HemsL, sp. n. ; species ex affinitate 

 S. calpicaiycB Kurz, a qua differt foliis lanceolatis paucinerviis 

 et fructu acuminato. 



Frutex scandens vel vagans, ramis florigeris gracilibus flexu- 

 osis primum parce puberulis ; internodia quam folia raulto 

 breviora. Folia brevissime petiolata, coriacea, lanceolata, 4-10 cm. 

 longa, obtusa, simul apiculata, basi cuneata, margine obscure 

 longeque calloso-denticulata, utrinque glaberrima, supra nitida ; 

 venae primarige utrinque 3 vel 4, curvatae, secundaricB transversa3 

 ultimas minute reticulantibus. Flores parvi, 2-3 mm. diametro, 



