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ascending, I inch long, oblong-ovate, with a compressed 

 margin and truncate apex bearing a tuft of long white 

 silky hairs, glabrous, brown. 



VeRBENACE/E. 



Staciiytarpheta indica, Vahl. — Baker, Mor. Maur. 

 Seych., p. 251. Coralline limestone, 20 feet above sea- 

 level, 18th August 1888. Native. The plants of this 

 species observed by me in He des Aigrettes, and near the 

 sea-level round Port Louis, Mauritius, had decumbent stems 

 and paler blue corollas than those in the higher elevations 

 of Mauritius, where the plants are more robust, with erect 

 stems and deep blue corollas. 



* Lantana Camara, Linn. — Baker, Elor. Maur. Seych., 

 p. 253. Waste ground, 20 feet above sea-level, 18th 

 August 1888. Naturalised. Corolla yellow. A native 

 of Tropical America, now very common in Mauritius. 



Premna serratifolia, Linn, — Baker, Flor. Maur. Seych., 

 p. 254. Coralline limestone, 5 feet above sea-level, 18th 

 August 1888. Native. 



An erect shrub 4-5 feet high, with stout, terete, glabrous, 

 brown branchlets. Leaves opposite, 3-5 h inches long, 2—4 

 inches broad, oblong, rounded or slightly cordate at the 

 base, narrowed to a short point at the apex, entire, glabrous, 

 shining green above, paler green beneath, coriaceous, pen- 

 ninerved, with 4—6 prominent erecto-patent main veins on 

 each side of the midrib ; petiole i— 2| inches long, glabrous, 

 pale green or purplish-green. Flowers copious, minute, in 

 much-branched, peduncled, terminal, trichotomous cymes 

 2—4 inches broad. Bracts j-'^ inch long, deltoid, puberulent 

 beneath, pale green. Pedicels very short, puberulent. 

 Calyx 12 i'^ch long, campanulate, 4-toothed, puberulent on 

 the outside, marked with radiating veins on the inside, pale 

 green, persistent, remaining pale green ; teeth minute, 

 broadly deltoid, o])tuse. Corolla | inch long, campanulate, 

 4-lobed, glabrous, except the pilose throat, pale green ; 

 lobes nearly as long as the tubes, spreading, broadly oblong, 

 obtuse. Stamens 4, inserted in the throat of the corolla- 

 tube, alternate with the corolla lobes, exserted, glabrous ; 



