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Staff at Kew for active assistance in carrying on and completing 

 this work after I had left the neighbourhood of Kew. Almost 

 every member of the Staff has helped me in some way, and Dr. 

 Stapf and Messrs, W. B. Turrill, C. H. Wright, and J. Hutchin*- 

 son worked out certain families to which their names are 

 appended, while Mr. S. A. Skan has been most kind in answer- 

 ing chiefly literary queries. For their valuable support I have 

 much pleasure in recording my gratitude. 



Some explanation of the late appearance of this small contri- 

 bution to phytogeography is due to Professor Stanley Gardiner 

 and other members of the Expedition, and to Mr. Dujxrat and 

 the Hon. II. P. Thomasset, all of whom have worked most 

 assiduously in collecting materials for the work. The explana- 

 tion of the delay, which I greatly regret, is that a combination 

 of circumstances — other work of a more imperative character. 



— ^ J7 , 



me from pursuing a labour of love. 



my time — has prevented 



The projected Flora of Seychelles, although well advanced* 

 must perforce still remain in abeyance. All of the leading 

 novelties from this archipelago have been published; rartly in 



the Keio Bulletin and Hooker's Icones Plantarum; partly in the 

 Journal of Botany. Many almost extinct plants and other 

 imperfectly known plants have thus been placed on permanent 

 record. 



Syestem atic Enumeration of the Vascular Plants of 



Ai.dabra. 



Under each species reference is given to Baker's Flora of 

 Mauritius and Seychelles, when the species is contained in that 

 work. Fo* additional previously described species reference is 

 given to a regional publication, such as the Flora of Tropical 

 Africa, and for new species to the place of- publication. 

 Descriptions of most of the novelties have appeared in the 

 Journal of Botany, 1916, Supplement ii., and 1917, pp. 285-288. 

 Synonyms are cited only in cases where it seemed desirable for 

 clearness. Some of the species admitted in this enumeration 

 might with equal reasons perhaps have been included in the 

 category of those owing their presence h\ Aldabra to the direct 

 or indirect influence of man : but such species are left out of 

 consideration in the discussion of the indigenous element. 



Menispermaceae. 



Cissampelos Pareira, L., var. nephrophylla, Diels in Engl. 

 Pflanzenr., Menispermac, p. 292. 

 Fox 263. 



Distr. The species generally dispersed in hot countries. 



Capparidaceae. 



Cleome strigosa, Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. p. 80; Baker in Kew 

 BulL, 1894, p. 146. Polanisia strigosa, Boj. ; Schinz in Abhandl. 



Senckenb. xx. p. 84. 



Abbott] Thomasset 236; Fryer 43. 



Distr. East Africa. Also Astove, Fryer 10; Gloriosa 



{Baker). 





