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pale yellow with a pale, purplish, yellow base. Stamens 

 8 ; filaments united in a cylindrical reddish-purple tube, 

 glabrous except a few short hairs at the rim ; anthers 

 sessile, purplish-yellow. Ovary tomentose, pale yellow ; 

 style glabrous, whitish tinged with purple ; stigma glabrous, 

 whitish. 



Celastrace^. 



Gtmnosporia tpjgyna, Baker. — Baker, Flor. Maur. 

 Seych., p. 50. Coralline limestone, 5 feet above sea-level, 

 18th August 1888. Xative. This species is endemic in 

 the Mauritius group of islands. 



Branchlets stout, terete, glabrous, greyish-brown. Leaves 

 obtuse or emarginate at the apex, coriaceous, green above, 

 paler green beneath, with a reddish purple margin and 

 petiole. Calyx-teeth 4-5, glabrous, reddish purple, per- 

 sistent, finally becoming brown. Corolla I inch broad 

 when expanded; petals white, round. Disk yellow. Stamens 

 ■±—5 ; filament incurved, glabrous, whitish ; anthers pale 

 yellow ; pollen ellipsoid, glabrous, yellow. Ovary 3—4- 

 celled, glabrous, pale purplish. Stigma 3-4-lobed, pale 

 purplish yellow. Capsule l-^ inch broad, globose, glab- 

 rous, pale purplish green, 3-4-celled, dehiscing loculicidally 

 into 3-4 valves, which remain united at the base and 

 become brown. Seeds I inch long, ellipsoid, triquetrous, 

 convex on the back, flattened on the sides, glabrous, pale 

 shining green, arillate at the base, turning yellowish brown 

 after the dehiscence of the capsule, 1-2 in each cell of the 

 capsule. 



ItHAMNACEiE. 



ScUTLA. Co:.DiEE.50Ni, Brong. — Baker, Flor. Maur. Seych., 

 p. 51. Coralline limestone, 15—20 feet above sea-level, 

 18th August 1888. Xative. Leaves shining-green above, 

 paler green beneath. Drupe i%-^2 inch broad, globose, 

 glabrous, dark purplish black, juicy ; persistent calyx-tube 

 dark brown. 



*C0LUBRINA ASIATICA, Broug. — Baker, Flor. Maur. Seych., 

 p. 52. Common on coralline limestone, 5 feet above sea- 

 level, 20th June 1890. Xaturalised. 



