328 TRANSACTIONS AND PEOCEEDINGS OF THE [Sess. lix. 



filament pale green ; anther pale greenish-yellow. Ovary 

 superior, glabrous, pale green, 4-celled, with 1 ovule in each 

 cell ; style exserted, filiform, glabrous, pale green, bifid, 

 with 2 short recurv^ed branches. Drupe s—\ inch in 

 tliameter, globose, shining black, juicy ; endocarp bony, 

 warted, 4-celled, with 1 seed in each cell. 



Amaranthace.^^.. 



* Amaranthus gangeticus, Linn. — Baker, Flor. ^Maur. 

 Seych., p. 267. Waste ground, 10 feet above sea-level, 

 4th March 1889. iSTaturalised. This species is commonly 

 cultivated in the tropics of the Old World. 



[Alteenanthera paronychoides, a. St.-Hil. — A. DC. 

 Prod, xiii., sect. ii. 358. Planted in a border at a road- 

 side, 4th March 1889. A native of America.] 



* Chenopodiace^. 



* Chenopodium ambrosioides, Linn. — Baker, Flor. Maur. 

 Seych., p. 270. Waste ground, 10 feet above sea-level, 

 4th March 1889. Naturalised. A cosmopolitan weed, 

 probably of Tropical American origin. 



LAURACEiE. 



*Tetrantheea laurifolia, Jacq. — Baker, Plor. Maur. 

 Seych., p. 292. Coralline limestone, 15 feet above sea- 

 level, 20th June 1890. ^Naturalised. Only two shrubs, 

 8 feet high, observed by me. A native of tropical Asia. 



Cassytha filiformis, Linn. — Baker, Flor. Maur. Seych., 

 p. 292. Parasitic on shrubs, 10-20 feet above sea-level, 

 1 8 th August 1888. Kative. 



Stems 24"-iV inch in diameter, terete, striate, glabrous, 

 green or greenish-yellow. Peduncle obscurely pilose, terete, 

 striate, green, with 3 minute ovate ciliate bracts at the 

 base. Bracteoles and outer perianth-lobes ovate, pale 

 whitish-green, glabrous except the pale brown ciliate 

 margin. Inner perianth-lobes glabrous, greenish-white. 

 Anthers orange-yellow, introrse, dehiscing by two flaps 

 from below upwards. Ovary ovoid, glabrous, green ; style 

 and stigma glabrous, pale whitish-green. Persistent 



