127 



Solanum nodiflorum, Jacq.; Baker, Flora, p. 214; Sckinz in 



Abliandl. Senckenb. xxi. p. 90. 



Voeltzkow. 



Distr. Now generally dispersed in the tropics in cultivate! 

 and waste places. 



Solanum nigrum, L.; Baker, Flora, p. 214; Dupont, lteport, 

 1907, p. 38. 



Dupont. 



Dupont records this from all the islands. 



Distr. An almost cosmopolitan weed. 



Scrophulariaceae. 

 Herpestis Monnieria, H.B.K.; Baker, Flora, p. 237; Schinz 



in Abhandl. Senckenb. xxi. p. 90. 

 Dupont 87; Fox 275; Fryer 9. 

 Distr. Tropics of both hemispheres. 



Acanthaceae. 



Asystasia gangetica, T. Anders. ; Baker, Flora, p. 247. 

 Dupont 61; Fox 232, 239. 



Distr. Tropical Africa, Seychelles, India, Malaya. 



Barleria sp., specimen mancum fructigerum. 



Dupont 118. 



Mr. Fryer collected the same plant in Astove. 



Hypoestes aldabrensis, Baker in Kew Bull., 1894, p. 150; 

 Schinz in Abhandl. Senckenb. xxi. p. 90. 



Abbott ; Dupont 43; Voeltzkow. 



Dupont describes this as a common weed with lilac flowers. 

 He also collected it in Assumption, n. 101, and Fryer collected 

 it in Astove, n. 7. 



Hypoestes serpens, R.Br., Baker, Flora, p. 248. 

 Fox, 251; Fryer 42. 101. Thomasset 264. 

 Distr. Mauritius, Madagascar. 



Verbenaceae. 



Nesogenes Dupontii, Hem si. in Journ. Linn. Soc, Bot., xli., 

 p. 314, pi. 14. 



Fox 250; Dupont 97; Thomasset 261. 

 Distr. Assumption, Dupont 106. 



Nesogenes species nova? Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc, Bot. t 

 xlf. p. 315. 

 Thomasset 236. 



Nesogenes euphrasioides, A. Gray, the type species of the 

 genus, inhabits islands of the Low Archipelago and Ducie Island, 

 approximately between 120° and 150° west longitude, and 

 between 15° and 20° south latitude. Two other species of the 



