131 



This is the " Claoxylon near C. indicum, Hassk." referred tcv 

 in Kew Bull. 1894, p. 150. According to Tliomasset it is one of 

 the commonest shrubs in Astove, Ccsnioledo and Aldabra. ' Both 

 it and the following species are closely related to the Tropical 

 East African A. fruticosa, Forsk. 



Acalypha Fryeri, Hutchinson in Kew Bull., 1918, p. 206. 



Fryer 92. 



Distr. Endemic. 



Moraceae. 



g 



' 151; Dupont, Keport, 1907, p. 40. 



Abbott) Dupont 39; Fryer 31; Thomasset 220, 253. 



•^V * ■ i mm m * -a _ ^ 



Assumption and Gloriosa. 



from 



Ficus consimilis, Baker, Flora, p. 286; Balfour, Bot. Eod- 

 riguez, reprint, p. 67. 



Fryer 13, 30, 33; Thomasset 219. Dupont 38. 

 Distr. Seychelles and Rodriguez. 



Ficus nautaruin, Baker, Flora, p. 285; Kew Butt., 1894, p. 



151; Schinz. Abhandl. Senckenb. xxi. p. 83; Dupont, Report. 

 1907, p. . 



Abbott; Fryer 14. 



Distr. Mauritius, Seychelles. Dupont records this species 



from all of the islands in his tabular view. 



Urticaceae. 



Obetia morifolia, Baker in Journ. Linn Soc, Bot., xx. 2G- 



(1883). 



Dupont 127; Fryer 17. 

 Distr. Also in Madagascar. 



Casuarinaceae. 



Casuarina equisetifolia, Forst.; Baker, Flora, p. 294; Schinz 

 in Abhandl. Senckenb. xxi. p. 81; Dupont, Report, 1907, p. 40. 



Recorded by Abbott, Gardiner and Voeltzkoiv, though not 

 collected by them. 



Distr. Dupont records this from all the islands in his table. 

 and also from Madagascar and the Mascarenes. It is supposed 

 to be a native of the Malay Archipelago, but it seems to have 

 spread widely independently of human agency. 



Orchidaceae. 



Although a number 



of the family are numerous in the Mascarenes, no species is 

 recorded from any of the islands dealt with in this paper except 

 Aldabra and Agalega. Absence or great rarity of Orchids is 

 the rule in the vegetation of coral islands and other remote- 

 islands. 



