FLORA OF SEYCHELLES AND ALDABRA 17 



Oldenlandia species adhuc inclescripta '? 



Species ex affinitate 0. corymbosce Baker in Kew Bull. 1894, 

 148, non L. sed humilior, omnino glabra, caiile e basi multiramoso, 

 ramis pergracillimis. Folia lineari-lanceolata, circiter 1 cm. longa. 

 Flores 4-meri. Calyx inter denies eciliatus ; dentes 1 mm. longi, 

 vix acuti. Corolla fere tubulosa, circiter 3 mm. longa ; lobi deltoidei, 

 quam tubus dimidio breviores. Capsula l-l'O mm. diametro. 



Aldabra : Fryer, 46. 



I do not venture to give names to these species of Oldenlandia, 

 although I have not succeeded in matching them, because they 

 may all be introduced plants. 



Tarenna nigrescens Hiern in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii, 92, non 

 Warb. in Engler Bot. Jahrb. xiii, 431. Goptosperma nigrescens 

 Hook. f. in Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii, 87. Wehera sechellensis 

 Baker, Flora, 139. 



Mahe : Cascade Estate, Thomasset, 121. Silhouette : Jungle 

 above Mare aux Cochons, Gardiner, xv. Aldabra : Dupont, 32 ; 

 Fryer, 98. 



The specimens from Aldabra are very different in foliage from 

 the Seychelles specimens, but the tloral characters are essentially 

 the same. 



Eandia lancifolia HemsL, nom. nov. ; species distincta foliis 

 crassissimis coriaceis rigidissimis, floribus parvis in axillis foliorum 

 fasciculatis. 



Arbor parva (Thomasset), praeter flores undique glabra. Eami 

 ilorigeri crassiusculi, rigidi, recti, internodiis quam foliis multo 

 brevioribus. Folia breviter petiolata, crassissime coriacea, oblongo- 

 lanceolata, saepius 10-15 cm. longa, sed interdum usque ad 25 cm. 

 longa, maxima 8 cm. lata, apiceobtusa vel rotundata, basi cuneata 

 vel subrotundata ; venae immersae, obscurae ; petiolus crassus, 

 5-10 mm. longus ; stipulae latae, truncatag, simul apiculatae, arete 

 appressae. Flores corollas forma dimorphi, an vere unisexuales ? 

 parvi, circiter 1-1*5 cm. longi latique, in axillis foliorum fascicu- 

 lati, fasciculis paucifloris, pedicellati ; pedicelli flores aequantes vel 

 breviores, basi bracteis connatis apiculatis singillatim involucrati. 

 Calycis limbus brevissimus, 5-dentatus ; dentes minuti, acuti, 

 puberuli, sinubus latis vel acutis. Corolla anguste vel latiuscule 

 infundibularis ; lobi 5, contorti, oblique ovato-oblongi vel fere 

 orbiculares, obscure ciliolati ; tubus intus infra stamina villosus. 

 Stamina 5 ; antherae medio affixae, subsessiles, fere omnino inclusao. 

 Ovarium 2-loculare, interdum angustum loculis cassis, saepius 

 latius locuhs multiovulatis ; ovula in quoque loculo longitudi- 

 naliter biseriata ; stylus cylindricus, indivisus vel multo crassior 

 et alte bifidus. Fructus (unicus imperfectus tantum visus) 

 oblongus, circiter 1*5 cm. longus, loculis 6-8-spermis. Semina 

 forma irregularia, suborbicularia, compressa, 4-5 mm. diametro, 

 albida, embryone minutissimo. — Pyrostria lancifolia Bojer ; Baker, 

 Flora, 149, in nota, absque descriptione. Psychotria Wrightii 

 Baker, Flora, 156. 



Mahe : Various localities ; Home, 250 ; Thomasset, 72, 90 



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