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pedunculatis 2-3-floris, pedicellis flore longioribus, sepalis lanceolatis dorso 

 lepidotis, petalis lanceolatis calyce aequilongis, fructu tricocco rugoso. 



A tree, with slender branchlets clothed with adpressed lepidote 

 pubescence. Leaves rigid in texture, 2-3 in. long by about an 

 inch broad, narrowed gradually from the middle to the base, with 

 3 strong main veins continued from the base to the very obtuse 

 apex, minutely toothed throughout, green and glabrous on both 

 surfaces. Cymes axillary ; peduncles and pedicels about £ in. 

 long. Calyx | in. long; sepals lanceolate, lepidote on the back. 

 Petals lanceolate, about as long as the calyx. Stamens equalling 

 the calyx. "Fruit of three small hard rugose one-seeded glabrous 

 lobes. — Baron 2251 ! 3223 ! Allied to G. trinervata, Baker in 

 Trimen's Joura 1882, p. 47. 



Ebythkoxylum firmum, n. sp. 



Glabrum, petiolis brevissimis, foliis oblanceolato-oblongis rigide coriaceis 

 venulis faciei inferioris pulchre anastoraosantibus, floribus 1 3nis axillaribus 

 et supra folios productis, pedicellis flore longioribus, bracteis sepalisque 

 ovatis, petalis oblongis calycem duplo superantibus. 



A shrub, glabrous in all its parts, with rather flattened grey 

 branchlets. Leaves l|-2 in. long, obtuse, narrowed to the base, 

 very rigid in texture, green on both surfaces, the fine erecto- 

 patent main veins beneath connected by distinct cross-arches 

 just within the edge. Flowers in copious clusters both in the 

 axils of the leaves and on the short leafless ramuli ; bracts ovate, 

 shorter than the stiffly erect pedicels, which are y 1 — g in. long. 

 Calyx campanulate, 1 lin. in diam. ; sepals deltoid, connate at the 

 base. Petals twice as long as the sepals, with an obovate scale 

 across the claw, with an incurved free apex. Stamens shorter 

 than the petals ; anthers oblong, equalling the filaments. Ovary 

 depresso-globose, with 3 short styles, with capitate stigmas — 

 Baron 2740 ! 2848 ! Near the Mauritian E. laurifolium, Lam. 



Khodoclada, genus novum Linacearum? 

 Calyx campanulatus, segmentis 5 oblongis obtusis imbricatis coriaceis 

 persistentibus reflexis. Petala 5 oblonga decidua calyce paulo longiora. 

 Stamina 10 leviter perigyna, filamentis nliformibus basi in cupulam brevem 

 connatis, antheris globosis. Ovarium globosum sessile biloculare, ovuhs 

 pluribus in loculo ab apice pendulis ; stylus filiformis, stigmate capitate 

 Fructus ignotus.— Arbor Madagascariensis, foliis alternis exstipulatis 

 obovatis rigide coriaceis integris subsessilibus articulatis, floribus parvis 



