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Enfin le Secretaire a rappele h. la Societe qu'il avait, 

 en 1859, donne le nom de Fropiera h un arbrisseau de nos 

 forets^ remarquable par la bonne qualite deson bois, et ses 

 fleurs auxquelles succedent des bales succulentes d'une 

 belle couleur blanche. 



Le genre Fropiera est aujourd^hui adopte par tons les 

 botanistes. La plante a ete decrite et figuree sous le nom 

 de Fropiera Mauritiana dans le journal de la Societe 

 Linneenne de Londres. 



La place du Fropiera dans le Genera Plantarum de 

 Bentham et Hooker^ est h la suite de la famille des Myr- 

 tinees avec laquelle il presente des rapports mais dont 11 

 differe sur d'-autres points. 



Communication est faite de la lettre sulvante adressee 

 par Sir Henry Barkly au Secretaire de la Societe : 



" London, 23rd November 1870. 

 " My dear Sir, 



" I received your letter of September too late to acknow- 

 ledge it by last mail. It needed no apology for not coming to 

 see me off from Port Louia, for the whole of my leave taking 

 and embarkation was so hurried, iu consequence of my having 

 to attend to the Duke of Edinburgh, that there was scarcely 

 time or opportunity for many of my friends to call. 



" AVith regard to the paper which I promised with Lady 

 Barkly 's aid to contribute to the Royal Society upon the 

 Mascarene Ferns, my apology must be of a similar nature. 



" I not only had no leisure to prepare it before leaving 

 Mauritius ; but when I got to England, I found that in the 

 bustle of packing up, the whole of our notes, and a great part 

 of our Herbarium, which we intended to bring home, had 

 been despatched to the Cape of Good Hope, so that we really 

 had not the materials to write with. 



*' I still hope, however, to redeem my promise when I get 

 out to that colony. 



" I have not been altogether idle as regards the Round la- 

 land Fauna and El or a. 



