22 FLORA OF SEYCHELLES AND ALDABRA 



Hook. Ic. PL t. 2994. Astephcmics cernuus, A. ovatus et A. aren- 

 arius, Decne. in DC. Prodr. viii, 507. A. arenarius, Decne. ; 

 Baker in Kew Bull. 1894, p. 149. Dupont, Eeport, p. 39. 



Aldabra : Common on the beach, Dupont, 102, 130 ; Thomasset, 

 215, 254 ; Fryer, 89, 97. 



A monotype widely spread in East Tropical Africa and Mada- 

 gascar. 



AscLEPiAS FRUTicosA L. ; N. E. Br. in Fl. Capensis, iv, i, p. 691. 

 Gompliocarpus cormitus Baker, Flora, p. 228, non Decne. G. 

 fniticosus, E. Br. ; Benth. Fl. Austral, iv, p. 326. 



Silhouette : Mareaux Cochons, Gardiner. Frigate Island : 

 Home, 363. 



Secamone Fryeri Hemsl., sp. n. ; species S. zamhesiacce 

 Schlecht. similis, recedit foliis coriaceis ellipticis et cymis multi- 

 floris folia ssepius excedentibus. 



Frutex scandens, interdum volubilis, undique glaber, ramis 

 florigeris graciliusculis ; internodia quam folia nonnunquam 

 breviora. FoUa distincte petiolata, coriacea, elHptica vel interdum 

 fere orbicularia, cum petiolo 4-8 cm. longa, sed ssepius circiter 5 cm. 

 longa, acuta vel subobtusa ; venae immersae, inconspicuas. Cymaa 

 compositae, terminales vel laterales, densas, subternatim ramosae, 

 usque ad 8 cm. diametro sed saepius minores ; bracteae angustae, 

 fere lineares, crassae, concavo-convexas, vix acutae, quam flores 

 breviores. Flores 4-5 mm. diametro, brevissime pedicellati. 

 Sepala oblongo-elliptica, circiter 1-5 mm. longa, apice rotundata. 

 Corolla fere rotata, limbi lobi oblongi, circiter 2 mm. longi, apice 

 rotundati. Coronce squamae ligulatae, stamina superantes. FoUi- 

 culi (maturi non visi) fere teretes, sursum attenuati, acuti, horizon- 

 tales, 4-8 cm. longi. 



Aldabra ; Thomasset, 255 ; Dupont, 47 ; Fryer, 61. 



Mr. Dupont also collected this in Assomption, n. 115. 



I have not succeeded in identifying this with any Madagascar 

 or African species, but there is little doubt that, like all others of 

 this category, it did not originate in the coral islands. 



ToxocARPus ScHiMPERiANUs Hemsl. in Hook. Ic. PL t. 2807. 



Make : Without locality, Home, 533 ; summit of Mount 

 Sebert, 540 metres ; the only place where I have found it, 

 Thomasset, 49. 



Sapotace^. 



No two authors seem to agree in the delimitation of the 

 genera of this family. Several botanists have written in a dis- 

 cursive manner on the subject, and proposed new genera without 

 clearly defining them, basing them on characters w4iich do not 

 correlate. Others have reduced some of the old genera, and I 

 follow in reducing Imhricaria to Mimusops. 



SiDEROXYLON attenuatum A. DC. Prodr. viii, 178. Baker, 

 Flora, 193, excl. syn. S. ferrugineum Hook, et Arn., Bot. Beech. 

 Voy., p. 266, t. 25. 



