16 FLORA OF SEYCHELLES AND ALDABRA 



is labelled, in his handwriting, " 272, Frigate Island, August, 

 1871. His Excellency Sir A. H. Gordon." Under the same 

 number in Home's MS. is the following entry: "Also seen 

 on the sea-shore of Praslin, Mah6 and Curieuse. Stem erect, 

 10-15 ft. in height." This seems improbable in the face of 

 other records and the habitats of subsequent specimens. Gardiner's 

 specimen from Silhouette consists of parts of a leaf from a tree 

 40 ft. high. The entire leaf must have been at least 2 ft. long 

 and the largest leaflets between 8 and 9 in. long. The rhachis of 

 the old leaves readily disarticulates at the nodes immediately 

 under each pair of leaflets. 



Gastonia secliellarum has pedicelli continui, calyculus nullus, 

 stamina 15 (tot quot petala, Bentham et Hooker), et ovarium 12- 

 loculare. 



[PoLYSCiAs CUTISPONGIA Baker, Flora, 127 {Gastonia cuti- 

 sjjongia Lam.) is there erroneously recorded from Seychelles. It 

 should have been Mahe, Mauritius. There is a so-called Mahe 

 forest in Mauritius.] 



Geopanax procumbens Hemsl. in Hook. Ic. PI. t. 2821 (1906). 



Mahe : Cascade Estate at 450 metres, growing on and among 

 rocks of rough cliff, Thomasset, 192. Silhouette : Mare aux 

 Cochons, Gardiner, vii, and 32. 



Indokingia crassa Hemsl. in Hook. Ic. PI. t. 2805 (1906). 



Mah^ : At 600 metres ; not common, Plorne, 273 ; mountain 

 forest, Cascade Estate and Morne Blanc, Thomasset, 117 ; above 

 Ternu6 and Morne Pilot, Gardiner. Silhouette : Jungle at 660 

 metres, Gardiner. 



EUBIACE^. 



Oldenlandia corymbosa Baker in Kew Bull., 1894, 148, an 

 Schinz in Abhandl. Senckenb. Naturf. Gesellsch. xxi, 91 ('?), non L. 



Herba novellis obscure puberulis, laevis, erecta, 15-40 cm. alta, 

 perflorifera, ut videtur monocarpica. Caulis gracihs, sursum sub- 

 verticillatim multiramosus, ramis erectis obscure angulatis ultimis 

 pedicellisque fere filiformibus. Folia anguste lanceolata, 1-2 cm. 

 longa, maxima 5-6 mm. lata. Flores 4-meri, minimi, numerosis- 

 simi, secus ramulos subverticillatim fasciculati. Calycis dentes 

 angusti, acuti, circiter 0-5 mm. longi, sinubus latis ciliolatis. 

 Corolla ]3uberula, hypocrateriformis, 2-3 mm. longa ; lobi quam 

 tubus fere dimidio breviores. Capsula subglobosa, circiter 2 mm. 

 diametro, oligosperma. 



Aldabra : Abbott. Assomption : Dupont, 108, 108 bis. 



Oldenlandia, species nova ? 



Herba omnino glabra, inermis, procumbens, ramosissima, ramis 

 gracillimis fere filiformibus. Folia laevia, linearia, 1-2 cm. longa, 

 ssepius circiter 1 mm. lata, interdum usque ad 2 mm. lata, acuta, 

 obscurissime denticulata ; stipulse membranaceae, acutse. Flores 

 minimi, tetrameri, in paniculas parvas subterminales et axillares 

 dispositi. Calycis dentes deltoidei, acuti, vix 1 mm. longi. Corolla 

 subrotata, lobis circiter 2 mm. longis. Capsula ohgosperma. 



Aldabra : Thomasset, 260. 



