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Horne, J. Notes on the Flora of Flat Island. Mauritius, 1886. 
Folio. pp. 4. 
RopnieuEs. — Situated in 19° 41’ S. lat. and 63° 23’ E. long., and 
eighteen miles long by seven miles broad. It is volcanic, and the 
t altitude is a little more than a thousand feet. Formerly the 
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disappeared before cultivation, - now some uced plants are 
commoner than the native. Mr. J. G. Baker included Rodrigues in his 
Flora uritius.” 
Balfour, Dr. I. B. tany of Rodrigues: Philosophical Transac- 
tions of the Royal cu of London, clxvii. (1879), pp. 802-887, tt. 
19-36. There is also a separately paged reprint. 
Dr. Balfour collected 189 species of flowering plants which h 
regarded as indigenous. ee among them are three species of 
Palms.twoS i an 
and athurina — M" 
Turneracea, most nearly allied to the Central American Erblichia odo- 
rata. A marked feature in the vegetation is the great diversity in size 
and shape exhibited by the leaves of many plants at different periods of 
their growth. 
S ARCHIPELAGO.—A group of islands in the Indian Ocean, in 
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long, by six miles and a wide, entirely of coral formation, and 
nowhere rising more than ten feet above high tide, exceptiug in a few 
places where the sand has drifted. 
Hemsley, W.B. Report on the Mi of Diego Garcia: Journal 
of the Linnzan Society, xxii. (1886), pp. 332-340 
. This report was based on collection of lit made by Mr. A. Hume 
and Mr. G. C. Bourne, F.L.S. They comprise thirty-six foweHug plants 
and seven ferns, mostly of very wide distribution and none endemic. 
Formerly the islands were covered with forests of Afzelia bijuga, 
Terminalia Catappa, Cordia subcordata, and à few other smaller tr trees, 
but there are few large trees left now. The Coconut Palm is prominent 
here, as it is in most of the islands of this region. 
SEYCHELLES.—A group of upwards of thirty islands, mostly very 
. Small, lying between 3° to 6° S. lat t., and 900 miles north of Mauritius. 
Mahé has an area of 30,000 acres, is S miles long, s i: central 
mountains rise to à a height o 000 feet ext in size : Praslin, 
8,000 es; Silhouette, 5,700 acres La Digue, 2.000 ‘ie and 
Curieuse, 1,000 acres. The mountains of Silhouette are 2,500 feet high, 
ut none of the others exceed 1, ,900 feet above sea-level. Bird, Frigate, 
Dennis, North, Aride, The Sisters, ss St. Anne’s, and ‘Stag are 
the names of other islands of this group. 
z , J. G Flora of Mauritius and the Seychelles. London, 
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The indigenous flora of the Seychelles comprises 258 : species of flower- 
ing plants and 80 ferns and ist s pogar with which is a large 
number of introduced plants. Foremost in interest are the Palms, of 
which there are seven or eight speci) den ing to as many different 
genera, six of which are mo onotypie, and exclusively confined to these 
islands. Famous among the Palms is the Coco de Mer, or Double Coconut, 
The Screwpines (Pandanus) are abundant, and there are three or four 
ale distinct species. One species of Pitche rplant (.Vepenthes), a 
f eere and the Capucin tree are odie ——- endemic 
