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* Daucus Garota, Linn.; DC. Prod. iv. 251, the common European 
carrot, has strayed from cultivation in some places in Mauritius ; and in 
Rodriguez is found on hill-slopes all over the island. It may be readily 
known by its fusiform biennial root, decompound leaves with linear 
acute lobes, deeply-cut general bracts, and small ten-ribbed mericarps 
armed with hooked prickles. Garotte sauvage. 
Foeniculum vulgare, Gcertn ., the common cultivated Fennel, is given in 
Dupont’s Mauritian List as a naturalised species. Fenouil. 
Anethum graveolens, Finn., the commonly cultivated Anise, or Dill, is also 
casually suhspontaneous in Mauritius. Anis sav/vagc. 
Order LIIL CACTACE^. 
Flowers regular, hermaphrodite. Calyx-tube adnate to the ovary, 
often produced beyond it ; lobes indefinite, scaly, leafy or petaloid. Petals 
indefinite, mostly numerous and passing gradually into sepals. Stamens 
indefinite, inserted at the throat of the calyx ; filaments filiform ; 
anthers minute, oblong. Ovary inferior, one-celled ; placentation 
parietal ; ovules very numerous ; style single, filiform ; stigmas 2 or 
several, spreading. Fruit a berry. — Fleshy leafless shrubs of very 
characteristic habit. Distrib. All American, except Rhipsalis Cas- 
sytha. Species reckoned in gardens about 1000. 
Stems slender, terete, unarmed 1 . Rhipsalis. 
Stems of large flattened prickly joints * Opuntia. 
1. RHIPSALIS, Gkertn. 
Calyx-tube not produced above the ovary ; teeth 5-6, minute. Petals 
5-6, oblong, spreading. Stamens 12-14 ; filaments subequal ; anthers 
short. Ovary inferior ; style filiform ; rays of stigma 3. Berry sub- 
globose, smooth, one-celled, many-seeded. — Fleshy shrubs with articu- 
lated terete or flattened branches, and minute scale-like leaves, with 
copious small flowers sessile in their axils. Distrib. Species 30, all 
the rest Tropical American. 
1. R. Cassytha, Gcertn.; DG. JProd. iii. 476. Stems slender, 
shrubby, terete, firm, erect or pendulous, branched in dense whorls, 
and branches again branched in whorls or forked. Joints rare, except 
at the branching. Flowers abundant on the sides of the branchlets, 
often crowded. Calyx teeth 5-6, small, unequal, acute. Petals 5-6, 
ovate, obtuse, greenish-white. Stamens 12-14, shorter than the petals. 
Berry waxy white, like that of the Mistletoe, the size of a small pea. 
Bot. Mag. t. 3080. Cactus pendulinus, Sieber. 
Mauritius, on rocks of the Pouce, Montagne Longue, etc. Seychelles, in one 
place on a rock near the south end of Mahe, Horne , 461 ! Also Ceylon, Tropical 
Africa and America. 
* Opuntia Tuna , Miller; DC. Prod. iii. 472, a native of South America, has been 
planted for fences in Rodriguez and Mauritius, and is now spread through the islands. 
It has dichotomous stems, 3-6 feet high, with flattened oblong joints 6-12 in. long, 
