326 TRANSACTIONS AND PEOCEEDINGS OF THE [Sess. lix. 



SOLANACE.E. 



* Lycopersicum Galeni, Miller. — Baker, Flor. Maur. 

 Seych., p. 216. "Waste ground, 10 feet above sea-level, 

 20th June 1890. Scarcely naturalised. This species is 

 the cultivated Cherry Tomato. 



* NicoTiANA Tabacum, Linn. — A. • DC, Prod., xiii. 

 sect. i. 557. Waste ground, 20th June 1890. Scarcely 

 naturalised. 



On 2nd September 1889 I found this species, which is 

 the common cultivated Tobacco plant and a native of South 

 America, growing on coralline limestone, 3-40 feet above 

 sea-level, on He aux Fouquets, where it is naturalised and 

 common on the sheltered north-west side of the island. 



In Bojer, Hort. Maur., p. 238, iY. Tabacum, Linn., is 

 recorded as cultivated in Mauritius ; and in Baker, Flor. 

 Maur. Seych., p. 218, it is recorded by Balfour as "sub- 

 spontaneous " in liodriguez, but it is not recorded from 

 Mauritius, where it is still cultivated. 



Asclepiadace^. 



Saecostemma viminale, E. Br. — Baker, Flor. Maur. 

 Seych., p. 227. Coralline limestone, 5 feet above sea- 

 level, 18th August 1888. Native. Corolla pale whitish- 

 yellow, with a white outer corona. Stigma faintly 2-lobed 

 at the apex, glabrous, pale green. 



Tylophoea l^vigata. Dene. — Baker, Flor. Maur. Seych., 

 p. 228. Coralline limestone, 15 feet above sea-level^ 4th 

 March 1889. Native. Stem-juice watery. Calyx I inch 

 long, 5-lobed. Corolla ^ inch long, f inch broad when 

 expanded, 5-7-lobed, greenish yellow, tinged purphsh on 

 both surfaces of the tube. Stamens 5-7. Ovaries 2, free, 

 glabrous, pale green, one only developing into fruit ; styles 

 2, free, as long as the ovaries, subulate, glabrous, pale 

 green ; stigma flatly convex on the top with an apical pit 

 and a 5-7-angled margin, glabrous, pale green, except the 

 pale purplish margin. Follicle 2— 3i inches long, fusiform, 

 acuminate, with a hooked apex, glabrous, pale brownish- 

 green, dehiscing by the ventral suture. Seeds numerous, 



