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terminal panicles. Distrib. Zanguebar, Mascaren Isles and Seychelles. 
Species 5-6. 
Flowers in an ample terminal panicle . . 1. P. sechellarum. 
Flowers many, in peduncled axillary cymes 2. P. borbonica. 
Flowers 2-3 together in the axils of the leaves. 
Calyx-teeth small, deltoid 3. P. terniflora. 
Calyx-teeth large, leafy, lanceolate 4. P. myrtifolia. 
1. P. sechellarum, BaJcer. A glabrous shrub, with stout sulcate 
angular branches. Leaves short-petioled, obovate-oblong, obtuse, 
cuneate at the base, 4-6 in. long, very coriaceous, shining, finely 
venulose below ; stipules small, deltoid, persistent. Flowers in a lax 
deltoid terminal panicle, as long as the leaves, with spreading central 
deflexed lower branches ; branches corymbose ; bracts small, deltoid, 
persistent. Calyx in. long, broadly campanulate; teeth deltoid. 
Corolla under £ in. long ; teeth as long as the tube. Fruit a drupe, 
the size of a small pea, crowned by the persistent calyx-teeth. 
Seychelles, common in woods of Mahe, Horne 264, 535 ! Wright 120 ! Endemic. 
2. P. borbonica, Gmel. ; DC. Prod. iv. 463. A much-branched 
glabrous shrub, 4-5 feet high, with fragile slender branches, swollen at 
the nodes. Leaves short-petioled, oblong, acute, subcoriaceous, lf-2 
in. long, deep green, very smooth, cuneate at the base ; stipules small, 
lanceolate, deciduous. Flowers 6-12, in short-peduncled axillary 
cymes. Calyx oV i n * long, campanulate ; teeth minute, deltoid. 
Corolla broadly funnel-shaped, whitish, in. long, with teeth exceed- 
ing the tube. Fruit a globose whitish drupe, smaller than a pea, 
crowned by the minute persistent calyx-teeth. P. corymbosa, Gcerin.. 
Pruct. t. 194, jig. 4. 
Mauritius, in forests through the island. Also Bourbon. Yar. grandiflora , 
Baker, is a form with flowers as long as those of J P. terniflora. Bois Cassant. 
3. P. terniflora, A Pick. ; DC. Prod. iv. 462. A much-branched 
shrub 5-6 feet high, just like P. borbonica in habit and leaf. Flowers 
1-3, from the axils of the leaves, without any common peduncle ; 
pedicels straight, ascending, in. long. Calyx £ in. long, broadly 
funnel-shaped ; teeth deltoid. Corolla white, fragrant, i in. long ; 
lobes lanceolate, as long as the tube. Drupe like that of P. borbonica. 
Mauritius, in woods of Moka, etc. Endemic. 
4. P. myrtifolia, A. Pick. ; DC. Prod. iv. 463. A much-branched 
glabrous low shrub, with slender fragile branches with swollen nodes. 
Leaves short-petioled, oblong, obtuse, smooth, subcoriaceous, cuneate 
at the base, 1-1| in. long ; stipules minute, deltoid. Flowers 2-3, 
i on short pedicels from a very short common peduncle in the axil of 
the leaves. Calyx £ iu. long, the lanceolate leafy teeth much exceeding 
the tube. Corolla funnel-shaped, i in. long; teeth as long as the 
