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comparisons. For this purpose also some particulars are 

 extracted from Prain, Stanley Gardiner, Willis and the present 

 writer's accounts of the botany of the more easterly Laceadives, 

 Maldives and the Chagos Archipelago. 



Assumption. 



Dupont r 



emble 



closely that of Aldabra than some of the other neighbouring 

 islands. Out of 97 Aldabra species he records in his distri- 

 bution table 40 as occurring in Assumption. Among these are 

 Polanisia strigosa, Capparis galeata, Thespesia populnea, Hibis- 

 cus tiliaceus, Scutia Commer.sonii, Schmidelia africana, Mac- 

 phersonia madagascariensis, Guettarda speciosa, Plumbago 

 aphylla. Solanum aldabrense, Sarcostemma viminale, Cassytha 

 filiformis, Ficus uautarum, F. aldabrensis } Euphorbia Abbottii, 

 Casuarina equiseti folia, Lornatophyllum borbonicum, Dracaena 

 reflexa, Asparagus umbellatus, Dioscorea nesiotis and Fim- 

 bristxflis exilis. 



A later numbered collection by Mr. Dupont includes the fol- 

 lowing additional species : Cissampelos Pareira (in a broad 



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f 



fol 



Panicum assumptions, Stapf; species nova; affine P. pint- 



Stapf), sed caulibus mill to 



gracilioribus, foliorum laminis multo tenuioribus molliter hir- 



sutis acutis planis baud aciniformibus, spiculis minoribus 

 distinctum. 



Perenne; rhizoma breve, mox dissolutum, aut fasciculos eulmo- 

 rum erectorum vel longe aseendentium et radieum fibrillos 

 tenues e basi emittentium aut soboles prostratos edens, innova- 

 tionibus foliatis additis. Caules sobolesque tonues, longiores 

 ad 2 dm. longi internodiis 1-2-2 rarius ultra 2-5 cm. longis, e 

 nodis omnibus fosciculatim ramosi vel inferne simplices, ram is 

 longioribus interdum codem more ramulosis, ramorum ramulo- 

 rumque fasciculi's circiter 2 cm. longis densis. Foliorum 

 vaginae firmae, breves, glabrae vel interiores fasciculorum 

 parce pilosae, basales 5 mm. longrae, culmorum primariorum 

 duplo longiores, pensim in laminas abeuntes et cum iis longe 

 persistentes, fasciculos ramulorum suffuleientes, eae fasciculo- 

 rum multo breviores; ligulae ad lineam pilorum redactae; 

 laminae lineari-laneeolatae vel sublineares, aeutae vel tenuiter 



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Launaea bellidi folia, Oldenlandia corymbosa, Pavetta tri- 

 chantha, Polyspfiaeria multiflora, Secamone Fryeri 9 Justicia 

 procumbensj Hypoestes aldabrensis, Nesogenes Dupontii, Clero- 

 dendron mimitiflorum, Celosia phytolacci folia, and Panicum 

 assumptionis, Stapf (sp. nov.). 



Fryer contributes Peivphts, Plumbago, Microstephanus, 

 Euphorbia Abbottii, Ficus and Dracaena. And Fox adds: 

 Eriochloa subulifera, Stapf. (sp. nov.), 256, 261; Stenotaphrum j 



clatngerum,., Stapf (sp. nov.), 255; Eragrostis riparia, Nees, 237, 

 252; and Dactyl octenium pilosum, Stapf (see p. 135), 254. 

 Descriptions of the 3 new species by Dr. Stapf are appended 

 here. 



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