10 FLORA OF SEYCHELLES AND ALDABRA 



pubescentes, in axillis foliorum fasciculati, numerosi, brevissime 

 pedicellati. Calycis dentes deltoidei, circiter 1-5 mm. longi, sub- 

 acuti, persistentes. Petala breviter ungiculata. Fructus imma- 

 tm'us tantum visus, lanceolatus, 2-3 cm. longus, acuminatus. 



Peaslin : Grand' Anse, Dupont, 17. 



This may prove to be the same as Ventilago lanceata Tulasne 

 in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 4, viii, 121 (1857), where that author has a 

 long discussion on the affinities of Ventilago. He adds : " Viget 

 ad Httora Oceani in insula Mahe Sechellarum. Pervillei, herb. 

 126." 



GouANiA Eetinaria DC. Prodr. ii, 40 ; Balf. fil., in Proc. 

 Eoy. Soc. clxviii, 1879, Eeprint, p. 34. G. tilicefolia Baker, Flora, 

 52, pro parte. 



Aldabea : Dupont, 2, 129 ; Fryer, 76 ; Thomasset, 231. 



I accept Balfour's identification of this species, which has 

 distinctly winged fruits, dehiscing early. 



GouANiA TiLi^FOLiA Lam. ; Baker, Flora, 52, pro parte ; Schinz 

 in Abhand. Senckenb. Naturfor. Gesellsch. xxi, 86. 



Aldabra : Abbott. 



There is some doubt about this being the G. tilicBfolia of 

 Lamarck, and Voeltzkow's specimen referred to this species may 

 be the much commoner G. Eetinaria. Abbott's specimen in the 

 Kew Herbarium was inadvertently labelled by Baker Coluhrina 

 asiatica, and Schinz includes it under that name in his Enumera- 

 tion, on Baker's authority. G. tilicEfolia has a woody, wingless 

 fruit, tardily dehiscent. 



Sapindace^. 



Macphersonia madagascariensis Blume, Bum2)hia, iii, 156 ; 

 Eadlk. in Sitzungsb. K. Baier. Akad., 1890, 248 ; M. pteridoj^hijlla 

 BiiiW., Adanso7iia, xi, 240; Albizzia fastigiata Mey. 7 Baker in 

 Kew Bull., 1894, 148— leaves only. 



Aldabra : Abbott ; Dupont, 28. 



There are three very closely allied species of Macphersonia, 

 namely, the above and M. Icevis and M. Hildebrandtii Eadlk., I. c. 

 and I am not quite sure that I am right in referring the Aldabra 

 specimens to M. madagascariensis. 



Dupont (Eeport), p. 36, tabulates " Albizzia fastigiata E. 

 Meyer" from Cosmoledo, Assomption, and Aldabra. The label 

 accompanying his specimens, numbered 28 (Macpliersonia), runs: — 

 " Aldabra and Cosmoledo only. Very rare ; found six specimens 

 at Takamaka, near Point Hodoul, Aldabra." He also states that 

 it is a small tree and names it " Tamarind Batard." In his 

 Eeport he gives " Tamarind Marron " as the popular name of 

 '' Albizzia fastigiata,'' v^hiGh. '&\gm^Q'& mxxch. the same thing. D. 

 Oliver is the authority for the combination Albizzia fastigiata, 

 the Zygia fastigiata of E. Meyer. 



Le guminos^ -Papilionace^ . 



Desmodium diversifolium do. Prodr. ii, p. 334 ? ; foliis di- 

 morphis, nunc (ssepius) trifoliolatis, (foliolo terminali majore) 



