12 FLORA OF SEYCHELLES AND ALDABRA 



Aldabra : Abbott ; Dupont ; Thomasset, 230 ; Fryer, 59. 



Tephrosia purpurea Pers. ; Baker, Flora, 71, pro parte. 

 Balfour, Bot. Rodriguez, 36. Cordemoy, Fl. Reunion, 398. 

 Seychelles : Without locality, Perville ; J. Home, 480. 

 Common in all the islands. — Home. 



Tephrosia subamoena J. R. Drumm. et Hemsl., sp. n.; 

 T, imrpurecB similis, differt habitu robustior, legumine dense 

 sericeo-hirsuto ferrugineo. 



Herba erecta, circiter metralis, ramosa, plus minusve appresso- 

 hirsuta. Folia breviter petiolata, multijuga, usque ad 10-12 cm. 

 longa ; foliola brevissime petiolulata, anguste obovato-oblonga, 

 2-4 cm. longa, apicula, basi cuneata ; stipulae lineari-fihformes, 

 5-7 mm. longse. Racemi terminales, simplices, laxi, 10-15 cm. 

 longi, bracteis minutis cito deciduis. Flores brevissime pedicellati, 

 circiter 1 cm. longi, extus pihs rectis appressis densissime vestiti. 

 Calycis lati lobi ina3quales, 2 superiores altius connati, inferior 

 longior, omnes acuti. Petala subgequilonga ; vexillum magnum, 

 orbiculari-obcordatum. Stamina ut videtur inclusa, quam stylus 

 complanatus breviora. Ovarium pilis longis rectis arete appressis 

 densissime vestitum. Legumen leviter curvatum, 4-5 cm. longum, 

 complanatum, circiter 8-10-spermum. Semina oblonga, circiter 

 3 mm. longa, corrugata, brunnea. — T. Hooker iana, Baker, Flora, 72, 

 non Wight et Arn. ; Fl. Brit. Ind., ii, 113, pro parte. 



Make : Common, Home, 294, 481. 



Home notes that it was common in all the islands, but we have 

 seen no other Seychelles specimens. 



Derris uliginosa Benth. in PI. Jungh. i, 252 ; Fl. Austral, ii, 

 272 ; Hemsl., Bot. ChalL, i, pt. 3, p. 143. Pongamia glabra 

 Baker, Flora, 87, quoad specimina Horneana, n. 482, citata. 



Mahe : Sea-shore, Thomasset, 70 ; Bale Lazare, Gardiner. 

 Silhouette : Coast liane, on mangroves, etc., Gardiner, xii. 



Leguminos^-C^salpini^ . 



Cassia (Chamsecrista) aldabrensis Hemsl., sp. n ; species 

 C. scri)cnii (AmericcG tropicse incola) simillima, differt petiolo 

 communi basi baud piloso, foliolis numerosioribus apice rotundatis 

 haud apiculatis. 



Herba monocarpica vel interdum frutescens et perennans, 

 15-60 cm. alta, a basi ramosa, caulibus ramisque gracillimis 

 obscure parceque puberuiis. Folia 1-2 cm. longa ; foliola 5-10- 

 sed syepius 6-juga, oblonga, vix obliqua, 2-4 mm. longa, utrinque 

 rotundata, conspicue venosa. Flores axillares, solitarii, vix 1 cm. 

 diametro ; pedicelli gracillimi, folia fere sequantes. Legumen 

 immaturum tantum visum, lineare, 2-5-3 cm. longum, circiter 

 3 mm. latum, rectum, circiter 12-spermum. 



Aldabra: Thomasset, 231,262; Dupont, 123. 



This is very like G. serpens L., an American species, but 

 differs in the characters indicated and also in the flowers. 



