124 



Rutidea coriacea, Baker, Flora, p. 149 

 Fox 279. 



Distr. Mauritius, Bourbon. 



Compositae. 



Vernonia aldabrensis, Hand, in Journ. Bot., 1916, Suppl 

 ii. p. 20. 



Fryer 41 ; Fox 283. 



Distr. Endemic, 



Psladia sp.? 



He Miehe. 



Dupont 96; a shrub with, yellow flowers. 



A fragment bearing a few empty involucres. 



Sonchus oleraceus, L. 

 Fox 215. 



Distr. A cosmopolitan weed. 



Launaea bellidifolia, Cass. ; Oliver & Hiern. M. Trop. Afr.* 

 iii. p. 460. Microrhynckus sarmentosus, DC; Baker, Flora,, 

 p. 181. 



On the beach, Dupont 35. 



Distr. Madagascar, Mascarene Islands, tropical Africa and 



Asia. Dupont collected this also in Assumption (112) and in 

 Cosmoledo. 



Goodeniaceae. 



Scaevola Koenigii, Vahl.; Baker, Flora, p. 182, and in Kew 

 Bull., 1894, p. i48; Schinz in Abhandl. Senckenb. xxi. p. 91. 



Dupont; Fryer 110. 



Distr. A littoral shrub rangrino- widely from east Africa and 

 Asia to Australia and Polynesia. 



PIumba£inaceae. 



Plumbago parvifolia, Hemsl. in Journ. Bot., 1916, p. 362. 



Fryer 115. 

 Distr. Endemic. 



It is possible that this may be a leafy condition of P. aphylla, 

 Bojer, but it has a different aspect and the leaves are of a 

 different shape and texture from those casually occurring on the 

 barren stems of P. aphylla. 



Plumbago aphylla, Bojer; Baker iu Kew Bull., 1894, p. 148; 

 Schinz in Abhandl. Senckenb. xxi. p. 88; Dupont, Report, 1907, 



p. 37. 



Dupont; Thomasset 257. 



Distr. Dupont gives the following distribution of this singul 



plant : Astove, Uosmoledo, Assumj 

 is also abundant in Europa Island. 



Vldabra, Gloriosa. It 



