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scum triflorum 



TPryer 48; Thomasset 216; Dupont 33. 



Distr. Madagascar, Mauritius, Reunion. 



[Hernandia peltata and Cassytha filiformis are not represented 

 in the Aldabra collections at Kevr, but they are likely to occur in 

 the island as both are common in Seychelles and in several of the 

 smaller islands near Aldabra as well as in the Mnscarenes. 



Euphorbiaceae. 



Euphorbia Abbottii, Baker in Kew Bull., 1894, p. 150; Schinz 



in Abhandl. Senckenb. xxi. p. 86. 



Abbott; Dupont; VoeltzJcow; Fryer 52. 



Distr. Dupont records this from all the islands of the 

 Seychelles region except Gloriosa, but not from the Seychelles 



Archipelago. 



Euphorbia hirta, Linn.; N.E.Br, in Dyer Fi. Trop. Afr. vol. 

 vi. sect. i. 496. E. jnlulifera, Jacq. ; Baker, Flora, p. 303. 

 Fryer 100. 

 Distr. A common weed in the tropics. 



Euphorbia hypericifolia, L. ; Baker, Flora, p. 303; N.E.Br, 

 in Dyer Fl. Trop. Afr. vol. vi. i. p. 498. 

 Fox 292. 



Distr. Tropical and subtropical countries of both hemispheres- 



Euphorbia prostrata, Ait.; Baker, Flora, p. 302. 



Fox 224; Dupont 53, 203; Thomasset 232. 

 Distr. Tropical Africa and America. 



Wielandia elegans, Baill.; Hemsl. in Hook. Ic. PL t. 2813. 



Fryer 84. 



Distr. Also in Seychelles. 



Phyllanthus casticum, Willem.; Baker, Flora, p. 311. 



Dupont 7. 



Distr. Madagascar, Mauritius. 



Phyllanthus Cheloniphorbe, Hutchinson in Kew Bull., I918 r 

 p. 204. 



Abbott; Thomasset 227; Dupont 60, 112, 110; Frurr IT, 36, 

 87. 



A small soft-wooded tree the leaves of wldch are eaten by 

 tortoises (Dupont). 

 Distr. Endemic. 



Phyllanthus maderaspatensis, L. ; Baker, Flora, p. 309. 



Thomasset. 



Distr. Tropics of the Old "World. 



Acalypha claowloides* Hutchinson in Kew Bull.. 1918, p. 



205. 



Abbott; Fryer 18; Thomasset 243 

 Distr. Aldabra, Astove, Cosmoledo. 



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