— Hi 



thunder-storm whicli in the night burst over the island. 

 These, together with some procured on his previous visit, he 

 has been good enough to place at my disposal. 



The whole of these collections — Botanical as well as Zoolo. 

 gical, are now on the table ; it having occurred to me that 

 before despatching them to England it would be well that 

 they should be exhibited at a meeting of the Mauritius Eoyal 

 Society, for the purpose of inviting the attention of members 

 to the subject, and of eliciting such information as it may be 

 in the power of any of them to impart with reference to any 

 branch of it. 



With this view, I beg to submit a few observations in the 

 way of a " Catalogue raisonne " of the various objects,— 

 without any pretension to be able to determine species, or 

 draw accurate comparisons between the Flora and Fauna of 

 Bound Island, and those of Mauritius itself, as I hope will 

 hereafter be done by Naturalists competent to the task. 



The number of plants collected by us at Round Island,— 

 exclusive of two Seaweeds Sargassum vulgare ? and Conospora, 

 fastigiata common, I believe to the coast of Mauritius, was 

 29— comprising specimens of the following Natural orders ! — 



fMusci 1 



Acrogens < Lycopodiacege 

 [Filices 



'Graminacese 

 Cyperaceae ... 

 Endogens ■{ Pandanace ... 

 I Palmacese ... 

 l^Liliacese 



"Ebenacese ... 

 Asclepiadacese 

 Convolvulacese 

 Mygicacefe ... 

 Exogens -{ Asterace^ ... 

 j Combretace^e 

 I Myrtacese ... 

 I Cinchonacese 

 l^Homaliacese,.. 



1 

 1 



— 3 

 5 



1 

 2 

 3 

 1 



— 12 

 3 



2 

 1 

 1 

 2 

 1 

 1 

 2 

 1 



— 14 



29 



