160 Proceedings of the Royal Irish AcadeniJ/. 



XX. — List of Seychelles Myhtace^, -with Descriptions of two New 

 Species. By J. G. Baeer, F. L. S. - Assistant Curator of the Kew 

 Herbarium. (With Plates 16 and 17.) 



[Eead February 8, 1875.] 



Genus EtXGEifiA, Linn. 



Sub-genus JossiifiA. 



1. E. uniflora, Linn. Sp. Plant 673, E. Michelii, Lam. D. C. Prod. 

 3, 263, Plinia pedunculata, L. fil. Suppl. 253, Bot. Mag. t. 473, Steno- 

 calyx Michelii, Berg. A native of Tropical America, now widely- 

 naturalised in the Old World. 



Sub-genus STZTGnjii. 



2. U. WrigMii, Baker, PI. 16. Branches straight, grey, terete, 

 moderately stout. Leaves distant, distinctly stalked, ovate or oblong, 

 4-6 inches long, 2^-3 inches broad, cuspidate, broadly rounded at the 

 base, rigidly coriaceous, shining, with the veinlets raised. Cymes 

 copious, lax, stalked, lateral and terminal, 4-6 inches broad, with as- 

 cending main branches. Flowers stalked or sessile. Calyx f-^ inch 

 long, narrowed into a false pedicel in the lower haK above the joint ; 

 lobes twice as broad as deep ; tube not produced beyond the ovary. 

 Petals round, J inch deep. Stamens and style ^ inch long. Fruit not 

 seen. Common in Mahe and Praslin. Professor Wright ! Some ! 

 Endemic. 



3. E. Sechellarum, Baker, PI. 17. Branches terete, moderately slender. 

 Leaves distant, distinctly stalked, oblong, acute or acuminate, cuneate 

 at the base 4-5 inches long, l-J-2 inches broad, rigid, with the veinlets 

 raised. Cymes short-stalked, terminal and lateral, 3-4 inches broad, 

 with spreading main branches ; the flowers sessile at the end of the 

 branchlets. Calyx h inch deep, turbinate, as if narrowed into a short 

 pedicel above the joint, the lobes twice as broad as deep. Expanded 

 stamens ^-| inch long. 



Seychelles, described from a specimen in the herbarium of the late 

 Judge Blackburne, now at Kew. Eesembles the common Asiatic JE. 

 Jambolana in leaf and general habit, but differs entirely in the flowers. 

 Endemic. 



Genus BAEEiNGTOJfiA, Forst. 



Sub-genus Butonica, Juss. 



1 . B. spcciosa, L. fil. Seychelles on the shores, Bojer. Home ! 

 (Common on the Mahe side of Praslin. Professor Wright.) Polynesia 

 to Comoros, not Continental Africa. 



Sub-genus Steavadiitji, Juss. 



2. B. racemosa, Boxb. Seychelles on the shores. Home! Spread 

 through Tropical Asia and Afi-ica. 



3. B. acutangula, Gaertn. Seychelles, Bojer. Tropical Asia, not 

 Africa. 



