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multiflora, 5-8 mm. diametro, in corymbos compositos terminales 

 hemisphaericos 5-10 cm. diametro disposita ; ramuli graciles ; 

 pedunculi fere filiformes, bracteis paucis minutis instructi. Invo- 

 lucri bracteae circiter G-seriatse, pubescentes, ciliolataB, extimae 

 parvie, lineares ; intermedia3 gradatim majores, lanceolatae, longe 

 acuminatge, rigidce; interiores longiores, scariosae, late oblongae, 

 circiter 5 mm. longae, apice rotundatas. Corolla plus minusve glan- 

 dulosa ; lobi sublineares, tiibo saltern dimidio breviores. Antherae 

 basi vix sagittattc. Styli rami exserti, subulati, birtelli. Achenia 

 glandulosa, 10-costata, sursum crassiora, 2-3-5 mm. longa. Pappi 

 setae albidae, numerosae, uniseriatae, birtellae. 

 Aldabra : Fryer, 41. 



PSIADIA ? 



Aldabra : He Michel ; shrub with yellow flowers, Dupont, 9G. 

 A fragment bearing a few empty involucres. 



Gynura sechellensis Hemsl., nom. nov. Senecio sechellensis 

 Baker, Flora, 178. 



Make : Cascade Estate and Morne Blanc, Thomasset, 190. 

 Silhouette : Gardiner. 



This plant has the long, filiform, puberulous style-arms charac- 

 teristic of Gij7i2ira ; hence I have removed it from Senecio. 



Oleace^. 



Jasminum mauritianum Bojer, species valida ; Baker, Flora, 

 errore sub /. auriculato citata, 220. 

 Mahk : Morne Grande, Gardiner. 



Jasminum. aldabrense Hemsl., sp. n. ; /. mauritiano Bojer 

 simile, dif!'ert imprimis foliis supra nitidis, calycis dentibus longius- 

 culis subulatis et corollae lobis 5 cordato-ovatis acutis. 



Frutex scandens vel vagans, ramis florigeris teretibus gracilibus 

 pubescentibus, internodiis quam foliis brevioribus. Folia opposita, 

 breviter petiolata, subdecussata, inaequaliter trifoliolata, cum petiolo 

 3-6 cm. longa ; foliola petiolulata, vix coriacea, saspius ovato-ellip- 

 tica vel elliptica, rarius fere orbicularia, 1-4 cm. longa, lateralia 

 quam intermedium plus quam dimidio minora, utrinque rotundata, 

 apiculata, praeter costam subtus pubescentem glabra, supra nitida ; 

 petiolus petioluhque graciles, pubescentes. Flores circiter 2 cm. 

 longi, in paniculas axillares densas folia subaequantes dispositi ; 

 ramulis pedicelhsque brevibus gracihbus pubescentibus ; bractea) 

 bracteolaeque parvae, lineares. Calyx pubescens ; lobi subulati, 

 2-3 mm. longi, persistentes, demum recurvi. Corolla hypocrateri- 

 formis, 2-2-5 cm. longa ; limbi lobi subcordato-ovati vel lanceolati, 

 acuti, quam tubus paulo breviores. Stylus breviter exsertus. 

 Fructus ignotus. — /. mauritianum Baker in Kew Bull. 1894, 149, 

 et Schinz in Abhandl. Senckenb. Naturf. Gesellsch. xx, 88, non 

 Bojer. 



Aldabra : Abbott ; Thomasset, 247 ; Fryer, 6, 21. 



ASCLEPIADACE^. 



Microstephanus cernuus, N. E. Br. iu Kew Bull. 1895, 249 ; 



