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Mah^ : Common, Dupont, 5. Silhouette : Jungle above 

 Mare aux Cochons, Gardiner, xxxi. Praslin : Dupont. 



This species was founded on Cuming's 1243, under which 

 number there may be two species ; one having relatively small 

 leaves and the other having leaves quite like those of the Seychelles 

 specimens. S. ferruginetim is from Benin and is quite distinct. 



SiDEROXYLON iNERME L. ; Fl. Cap. iv, 1, p. 438, ex Mez in 

 Engler Pflanzenr. iv, p. 397. Mijrsine cryinoiMehia Baker in Kew 

 Bull. 1894, 149. Schinz in Abhandl. Senckenb. Naturf. Gesellsch. 

 xxi, 88. 



Aldabra : Dupont, 7, 14, 106, 133 ; Fryer, 38. Also collected 

 by W. L. Abbott and A. Voltzkow. 



MiMUSors SECHELLARUM Homsl., nom. nov. Imhricaria 

 sechellanm, Oliver in Hook. Ic. PI. t. 2315. Descriptio hie 

 amplificata. 



Arbor excelsa, praeter flores glabra, ramis florigeris mediocriter 

 crassis. Folia tenuiter coriacea, oblongo-elliptica, cum petiolo 

 1-5-3 cm. longo, ssepius 10-15 cm. longa, maxima visalO cm. lata, 

 utrinque rotundata vel basi subcuneata, apice emarginata, supra 

 nitida, subtus costa elevata, venis tenuibus crebre reticulatis. 

 Flores in axillis foliorum superiorum solitarii vel plures fascicu- 

 lati; peduncuH 1-2 cm. longi atque calyces ferrugineo-pubescentes. 

 Calycis segmenta 8, persistentia, biseriata, ovato-lanceolata, cir- 

 citer 8 mm. longa, subobtusa, 4 exteriora ferruginea, 4 interiora 

 albida, paullo minora. Corollas tubus brevissimus ; limbi segmenta 

 24, quorum 16 exteriora crassa, omnia bifida, vel aha bifida, alia 

 Integra vel irregulariter dentata, calycis segmenta yix excedentia ; 

 8 interiora minora, tenuia, integra, stamina foventia. Stamina 8 ; 

 filamenta brevissima ; anthera? dorsifixie, apiculatie. Staminodia 

 8, antheroidea, stamina aquantia, villosissima, caudata. Ovarium 

 strigosum, 8-loculare ; stylus glaber, acutatus, inclusus. Fructus 

 pomiformis, globosus, 6-7 cm. diametro, glaber, nudus, 8-locularis 

 vel scepius abortu loculis paucioribus, loculis unispermis ; epicar- 

 pium coriaceum ; mesocarpium crassum, fungosum ; endocarpium 

 fere membranaceum, badium. Semina compresso-ovalia, 3-4 cm. 

 longa, basi acuminata, hilo 7-9 mm. longo ; testa Crustacea, badia, 

 nitida. Embryo intra albumen carnosum planus, semen lequans ; 

 cotyledones tenues, radicula longuiscula.— I^/i/^rzcanVt species. 

 Baker, Flora, 195, in nota, quoad foha. 



Mahb : One plant growing near the sea. Home, 362 ; Sea- 

 shore, Thomasset, 126; without locahty, Schimper, 7; Cascade 

 Estate, Thomasset ; Gardiner. Silhouette : Glacis, Gardiner, 



XXXV. 



Home (MS. p. 53) refers to his 361 and 362 as distmct species, 

 and I, with fuller material before me, have no doubt he was right, 

 though both Oliver and Baker, in the places cited above, treat his 

 specimens as of one species. 



MiMUSOPS DECiPiENS Hcmsl., uom. nov. (olim Imbricaria) ; hyec 

 species a M. sechellarwn D. Oliv. differt ramis florigeris crassisimis, 

 corollge segmentis seriei exterioris octo tantum et fructu ovoideo. 



