90 
ROSACEJE. 
[j Rubies. 
R. csesius), is established abundantly in Mauritius at Moka and 
Crevecceur. It is a shrub with glabrous angular branches, large 
equal hooked prickles, digitately compound leaves with 5-7 ovate- 
cuspidate sharply toothed subglabrous leaflets, crowded panicle 
with distant lower branches, short deltoid sepals matted on the 
back especially at the edges, and copious small drupels in a round 
head. 
* B. roscefolius , Smith, Icon. Inedit. t. 60 ; DC. Prod. ii. 559 ; 
Bot. Mag. tab. 556, common in Tropical Asia, is established 
abundantly in Mauritius, Rodriguez and Seychelles. It was 
brought from the Malay Isles by Commerson, about 1780. It is 
a bush, with slender pilose branches, few small distant prickles, 
pinnate leaves with 5-7 oblong-lanceolate opposite membranous 
doubly-toothed slightly pilose leaflets, lax few-flowered corymbose 
panicles, pilose sepals lengthened out into long points which exceed the 
round petals, and very numerous small red drupels in an oblong head. 
Framboisier . 
The Almond, Amygdalus communis , Linn., is in Dr. Balfour’s Rodriguez collec- 
tion as a naturalised species. Amandier. 
Frag aria vesca, Linn., the common European Strawberry, is included in 
Dupont’s Catalogue as a species naturalised in Mauritius, Fraisier. 
Rosa semperflorens , Curt. Bot. Mag. t. 284, is also included in Dupont’s Mauri- 
tian Catalogue. Rosier de Chine. 
Order XXXV. SAXXFEAGACEiE. 
Flowers regular, hermaphrodite or polygamous. Sepals 4-5, minute; 
joined at the very base. Petals the same number, much larger, 
oblong, caducous. Stamens definite, perigynous ; filaments filiform , 
anthers didymous, splitting down the side. Ovary free, ampullseform, 
2-5-celled; ovules many; styles free or joined; stigmas capitate. 
Fruit indehiscent or dehiscing septicidally. Seeds usually small, with 
a minute embryo and copious albumen, but Brexia is an exception. 
Distrib. A truly cosmopolitan order of very various habit. Species 
500-600. 
Petals free. 
Fruit large, subdrupaceous, indehiscent, 5 -celled ... 1 . Brexia. 
Fruit minute, dry, 2-celled, the carpels soon dehiscing 
septicidally 3. Weinmannia. 
Petals united in the lower third or quarter 3. Roussea. 
1. BREXIA, Thouars. 
Calyx small, with 5 round imbricated sepals, connate at the base. 
Petals 5, oblong, imbricated, deciduous. Stamens 5, arising from a 
thick perigynous disk, which is produced into teeth ( staminodia) 
between them ; filaments subulate ; anthers oblong, versatile. Ovary 
