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was neither in flower nor fruit. Stems li-3 inches long, 

 erect. Leaves -5 inch long, oblanceolate-linear, obtuse ; 

 stipules deltoid-acuminate. This plant was not observed 

 by the other botanists who previously visited Eound Island. 



LlLIACE^. 



LOMATOPHYLLUM BOEBONICUM, Willd. — Baker, Flor. Maur. 

 Seych,, p. 374. I found this plant, without flowers or 

 fruit, common on the rocky ground, 1020 feet above sea- 

 level, near the top of the hill, at the north end of the 

 island. It is also native in Mauritius. 



Barkly and Home saw this plant in 1869, and they 

 record it, in Trans. Roy. Soc. Maur., 1869, pp. 118 and 

 137, under "No. 23. Aloe sp." 



Pike, in Sub-Trop. Eambles, p. 145, states that he saw 

 "a species of aloe" in Round Island in 1869. 



Asparagus umbellulatus, Sieber. — Baker, Flor. Maur. 

 Seych., p. 377. I found only one plant in fruit, climbing 

 on Pandanus Vandermccrschii, Balf. fil., on the rocky hill- 

 side, 160 feet above sea-level, near the landing-place on 

 the west side of the island. This plant, which is also 

 native in Mauritius, was not observed by the other 

 botanists who pre\dously visited Eound Island. 



Pal^^L'E. 



Latania Loddigesii, Mart., — Baker, Flor. Maur. Seych., 

 p. 381. I saw this palm common all over the island. 

 The male plants were in flower, and the female in fruit. 

 Palm 10—20 feet high. Leaves coriaceous, glaucous on 

 both surfaces, with a dark purple margin ; petioles tomen- 

 tose and pale yellow at the base, glabrous and green in 

 the upper part, split at the base and perforated by the 

 spadices in the outer leaves. Male flowers odoriferous. 

 Perianth-segments, filaments, and anthers yellow. Pollen 

 ellipsoid, glabrous, yellow. Drupe dull green. 



Bojer, who never visited Eound Island, erroneously 

 recorded this palm from Eound Island under Latania rubra, 

 Jacquin, in Bojer, Hortus Mauritianus, p. 307, which was 

 published in 1837. 



