18 FLORA OF SEYCHELLES AND ALDABEA 



Gardiner. Silhouette : Gardiner, 15, x, xxxiv. Peaslin : Very 

 common in the woods on the ridges, Schimper. 



Eandia sericea Hemsl. I.xora sericea Baker, Flora, 151. 



Mahe ; On the highest summits, Thomasset ; Gardiner. Sil- 

 houette : Summit above Mare aux Cochons, 2100 ft. Gardiner, 6, 

 xvii. 



This handsome tree is certainly not an Ixora, as it has a many- 

 seeded capsule ; the seeds being immersed in the placenta gave 

 rise, no doubt, to Baker's error in classification. The Malayan 

 B. longiflora Lam. is a similar plant, andi?. angolcnsis Hutchinson 

 (Ke^Y Bull. 1908, 292) is a closely allied species. B. sericea and 

 the latter have a character in common which I have not met with 

 in the description of any other species of Bandia : it is the pre- 

 sence of numerous slender obclavate glands clustered inside at the 

 base of the calyx-lobes. 



Tricalysia cuneifolia Baker in Kew Bull. 1891, 118. De- 

 scriptio hie ampliata. Species insignis corollse ore copiosissime 

 barbato. 



Frutex speciosus fioribus albis (Dupont), praster flores undique 

 glaber. Eami Horigeri recti, rigidi, graciliusculi, cortice albido. 

 Folia pauca ad apices ramorum conferta, brevissime petiolata 

 (stipulis parvis e basi lata aculeiformibus), demum subcoriacea, 

 oblongo-lanceolata, interdum elliptica, seepius 1-5 cm. rarius 

 7-8 cm. longa, apice rotundata vel obtuse acuminata, basi rotun- 

 data vel cuneata ; venae inconspicuse. Flores numerosissimi, 

 infra folia hornotina ad nodos contiguos foliis jam denudatos 

 dense fasciculati, albi, 5-meri, rarius 6-meri, 10-12 mm. diametro. 

 Pedicelli filiformes, 5-10 mm. longi, bracteolis 2 minutis instructi, 

 basi bracteis latis brevibus involucrati, involucris 2-3-floris. Calyx 

 circiter 2 mm. longus latusque ; tubus hemisphaericus, dentibus 

 deltoideis acutis. Corolla infundibularis ; tubus cylindricus. cir- 

 citer 5 mm. longus, intus infra medium glaber, supra medium 

 densissime barbatus, pilis unicellularibus longissimis ligulatis 

 planis longe exsertis ; lobi contorti, ovato oblongi, tubum fere 

 sequantes, apiculati. Stamina ori corollas inserta, filamentis 

 brevissimis ; antherae circiter 5 mm. longae, dorso infra medium 

 affixae, omnino exsertae, divaricatae, basi integrae, apice connectivo 

 producto membranaceo linguiformi appendiculatae. Discus annu- 

 laris, carnosus, glaber. Ovarium 2-loculare, pauciovulatum ; 

 stylus glaber, longe exsertus, alte bifidus ; ovula in quoque loculo 

 plura, placentis carnosis afiixa, pendula, partim immersa. Fructus 

 globosus, 1-5 mm. diametro, 2-locularis, loculis circiter 1-spermis. 

 Semina nigra, verruculosa, nitida, forma irregularia, 2-3 mm. 

 diametro. 



Aldabra : Fryer, 91 ; Dupont, 3, 132. 



TiMONius Jambosella Thwaites, Enum. PI. Ceyl. p. 153 ; 

 King & Gamble, in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. Ixxii, p. 53. T.flavescens 

 Baker, Flora, 111. 



Mahe : Morne Blanc, Thomasset ; Cascade Forest, Thomasset, 



