Gouania.~\ 
RHAMNACEJI. 
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2. G. mauritiana, Lam.; D.C. Prod. ii. 40. A shrubby climber, 
with branches densely and persistently clothed with rusty pubescence. 
Leaves short-petioled, alternate, cordate-ovate, acute, distantly toothed, 
2-3 in. long, clothed thinly above and densely beneath with grey 
silky pubescence. Bacemes dense, 2-3 in. long, and also a few cymes 
in the axils of the upper leaves. Sepals deltoid, densely pilose, as long 
as the tube. Petals shorter than the sepals. Capsule § in. broad, per- 
sistently silky, with rather thinner broader wings than in G. tilicefolia. 
Mauritius, Carmichael ! Also Bourbon, Madagascar, and Comoros. There may 
be some mistake in this being Mauritian, as all the specially-localised specimens of 
Mauritian Gouanias I have seen belong to G. tilicefolia. 
4. PHYLICA, Linn. 
Flowers hermaphrodite. Calyx superior, densely pilose ; tube cam- 
panulate ; teeth 5, lanceolate. Petals 5, minute, hooded. Stamens 5, 
hidden by the petals ; filaments short, incurved ; anthers small, 
roundish. Ovary inferior, 3-celled ; style short, trifid. Fruit globose, 
areolate at the apex, coriaceous, finally breaking up into three cocci. 
— Heath-like shrubs, with crowded rigid leaves and small flowers in 
dense clusters. Distrib. Cape, with outlying representatives also 
in Madagascar, Bourbon, St. Helena, Tristan d’Acunha, and Amster- 
dam Island. Species 60-70. 
1. P. mauritiana, Bojer , Hort. Maur. 70 (name only). A much- 
branched shrub, with slender wiry ascending stems, the old ones 
nodulose with the scars of fallen leaves, the young ones clothed with 
whitish tomentum. Leaves spreading at a right angle from the top 
of short pilose petioles, which are adpressed to the branchlets ; blade 
ligulate, §-- 1 in. long, rigidly coriaceous, naked above, pilose below, 1- 
nerved with strongly revolute borders. Flowers very minute, crowded 
in sessile terminal heads. Calyx campanulate, in. deep, densely 
clothed with grey silky hairs, the teeth as long as the tube. Fruit not 
seen. 
Mauritius, in tbe billy forests of Grand Bassin. Endemic. 
Order XXIX. AMPELXDEiE. 
Flowers regular, hermaphrodite or polygamous. Calyx-tube cupular ; 
teeth 4-5, obscure or distinct. Petals 4-5, valvate. Stamens 4-5, 
opposite the petals, free or monadelphous ; anthers 2-celled, splitting 
down the side. Ovary 2-5 -celled ; ovules 1-2 in a cell, anatropal ; 
style none, or short, entire ; stigma capitate. Fruit a 1- or many- 
celled berry. Seeds 1-2, bony, albuminous. — Shrubs or trees, usually 
climbers leaves alternate, simple or compound ; flowers copious, minute, 
mostly cymose. Distrib. Cosmopolitan, mainly tropical. Species 270. 
Sepals, petals and free stamens 4 ; carpels 2 1. Vitis. 
Sepals, petals, carpels, and monadelphous stamens 5 2. Leea: 
