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BIXACEJ3. 
3. APHLOIA, Benn. 
Sepals 5, round, distinct, much imbricated, the two outer smaller 
and firmer in texture. Petals 0. Stamens very numerous, hypogy- 
nous ; filaments filiform; anthers minute, oblong, 2-celled. Ovary 
oblong, with a single parietal placenta and many ovules ; stigma sessile, 
peltate. Fruit an indehiscent berry. Seeds tightly packed ; albumen 
thin. — Shrubs with alternate leaves and small flowers, solitary or fas- 
cicled from the branches. Distrib. Endemic in the Mascaren isles. 
Species 2. 
1. A. xnauritiana, Baker. A glabrous much-branched erect 
shrub. Leaves of the young shoots often deeply piunatifid (var. laci - 
niata , Poir), with 1-3 pairs of ascending obtuse lobes; of the mature 
branches oblong, obtuse or acute, entire or toothed or crenate, 1-4 in. 
long, subcoriaceous, green, cuneate or rounded at the base. Flowers 
yellowish, in. broad, on deciduous ascending pedicels \ in. long, 
from the axils of the leaves, solitary or fascicled in umbels. Sepals 
and very numerous stamens persistent. Fruit ovoid-ampullseform, 
i— l in. long, crowned by the large peltate stigma, 10-12-seeded. Ludia 
heterophylla, Bory Voy. ii. t. 24, non Lam. 
Mauritius, Seychelles, and Rodriguez, frequent in woods. Also Madagascar. 
Bois Goyave , Bois Vilian (Seych.). The following are the principal varieties : — 
1. integrifolia (Aphloia integrifolia, Benn. ; Prockia integrifolia, Willd). Mature 
leaves distinctly petioled, subentire, obovate-oblong, 2-4 in. long. Flowers 1-3 
together. Inner sepals f in. broad — Mauritius only. 
2. theceformis (Aphloia theseformis, Benn. ; Prockia theaeformis, Willd. ; P. serrata, 
Poir, non Willd. Aphloia madagascariensis, var. seychellensis, Clos, in Ann. Sc. 
Nat. ser. iv. vol. 8, 274). Leaves petioled, distinctly crenate or inciso-crenate. 
Flowers smaller, sometimes densely fascicled. Inner sepals £ in. broad. — Mauritius, 
Seychelles, and Rodriguez, the commonest form ; also Madagascar. 
3. sessilifolia. Leaves crowded, oblong, rounded at the base, sessile, subamplexicaul. 
Flowers solitary, as large as in var. 1. — Mauritius, on the top of the Pouce, Gardner ! 
Horne ! 
* Flacourtia Bamontchi , L’Herit, Stirp. 59 t. 30-1 ; Wight^ Ic. t. 
85 ; common in the tropics of the old world, is sometimes planted in 
Mauritius. It may be wild in the Seychelles, where the unarmed form 
is called (like Ludia) Prunier Marron , and the spiny one Prunier 
de Madagascar , as it is said by Mr. Horne to be common in Mahe, 
Praslin, and Silhouette, on poor rocky soils at an elevation of from 
sea-level to 800 feet. It is a small tree, sometimes thorny, with slender 
branches marked with grey dots ; oblong, alternate, petioled, crenate, 
glabrous, moderately firm obtuse or acute leaves 3-4 in. long ; copious, 
minute, dioecious flowers in sessile racemes and corymbs in the axils 
of the leaves ; 4-5 minute obtuse ciliated sepals ; no petals ; indefinite 
stamens, and an oblong fruit the size of a cherry, with 6-10 one- 
seeded cells, and as many sessile radiant stigmas. 
Order IX. PITTOSPORACE^]. 
Flowers regular, hermaphrodite. Sepals 5, nearly or quite dis- 
