vxr 
He was thus enabled to establish that the Longouze is 
really the Amomum angustifolium figured by Sonnerat iu 
“ Voyage aux Ind.es Orientales et en 0111116 /’ aud the 
same plant described by Dr. Hooker under the name of 
Amomum Danielli. 
Has it been introduced from Madagascar or is it a 
native of Mauritius ? This a difficult to determine. Ac- 
cording to Hanbury the plant, grows along the Western 
African coast line from Sierra Leone to Saboon, and 
perhaps still further South. 
“ I leave no reason, he says for believing that the 
iC fruits of A. angustifolium Son., have ever been an 
“ occasional article of export, either for Eastern and 
u Western Africa, and feel quite certain that they never 
,f formed a regular object of commerce with Europe.” 
During the season, the fruit is' sold in the market of 
Port Louis; the seed has a perceptible aromatic flavour 
far from unpleasant. 
Among the great number of plants introduced into 
Mauritius, it is our habit, whenever we find any that are 
unknown to us, to request Dr. Hooker or Prof. De Ean- 
dolle to enlighten us. 
It is thus that a small creeping plant, lately introduced 
into the Island, and which yields a great quantity of 
white flowers in clusters and very odoriferous, has been 
ascertained to belong to a genus dedicated by Kunth to 
the french Naturalist Boussingault aud called Boussin- 
yaultia basellioides. 
It is a native of Quito, in America, and yields a consi- 
derable quantity of tubercles which might, in case of need, 
be used as food for certain domestic animals. 
Another plant of the Cucurbitacce tribe, and which has 
long been growing at “ Bois Oheri ” formerly the property 
of Ch. Telfair, has also been identified. It formerly con- 
stituted a species of the genus Luffa under the appellation 
of L. Cattu picina De. P. and is figured in Liheed. Hort. 
Mai. Vol 8, tab. 8. 
