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REMARKS 



The "■ Aloes verfc " grows abundantly in some 

 parts of this Island. It will now rapidly spread (if 

 left alone) and cover the Island. 



The common banana has been introduced and 

 cultivated in gardens. It does not grow freely, and 

 does not seem to like the place. It is much broken 

 and knocked about by the wind. 



This plant grows in the gardens that have been 

 abandoned on the Island. 



This species of date grows freely and apparently 

 spontaneously on the Island, where it is not a rare 

 tree, but ib was not in flower not in fruit when I was 

 on the Island. 



Formerly the cocoa-nut palm more abounded on 

 the Island than it does now. The Hurricane of March 

 1868 killed many of them. The existing trees seem to 

 be recovering since they were sheltered by the filao 

 trees that have grown up round them. It should be 

 extensively planted on the Island. 



This fan-palm is also common on the Island. Its 

 head-quarters are however on Round Island^ which 

 lies seven miles north east of Flat Island. 



Common on the Islands near the coast of Mau- 

 ritius and on the shores of the latter. Excepting when 

 in fruit, plants of this species may be easily mistaken 

 for those of Pandanus utilis, which I do not think has 

 beeu introduced into Flat Island. 



This grows aburfdantly in swampy hollows that 

 remain full of water in the rainy season. 



The two first of these three species of Cyperus 

 are very common on the shores and cultivated lands. 

 The other species was found growing in dense tufts 

 in holes among rocks where it was kept moist by rain. 



Common in Mauritius and its dependencies g,lso 

 in the tropics of both hemispheres, 



