FLORA OF MADAGASCAR. 337 



Mr. Baron (No. 3139) baa obtained full material, from which the 

 following notes are made. It is well known to the natives under 

 the name of Harahara, and the wood is very hard and valuable. 

 I fear that the genus which I named Baronia in Trimen's Journal, 

 1882, p. 67, will have to be merged in Rhus, and s© I have called 

 this very characteristic and peculiar Madagascar type after Mr. 

 Baron again, with a slight variation in the name to avoid confusion. 



Neobaroista phtllanthoides, Baker, sp. unica. 



A high tree, glabrous in all its parts, witb very hard wood. 

 Branchlets woody, subterete, widening gradually into the primary 

 phjlloclades, which are oblanceolate, 4-5 inches long, under an 

 inch broad, rigid in texture, green on both surfaces, distantly 

 minutely toothed on the margin, with fine immersed uniform 

 anastomosing vertical veins. From the edge of primary phyl- 

 loclades spring others, and these are sometimes again com- 

 pound. From the teeth of the margin spring little clusters of 

 flowers on short pedicels, with a minute deltoid bract at the 

 base. The persistent glabrous brown calyx is £ in. long and 

 broad, with minute deltoid teeth. Corolla papilionaceous, bright 

 purple, i in. long. Stamens diadelphous, the upper filament free, 

 and the others united in a sheath ; anthers minute, globose. 

 Ovary linear, sessile, with a short abruptly incurved style and 

 capitate stigma. Pod coriaceous, indehiscent, not at all com- 

 pressed, | in. in diam., 1J~1| in. long, 1-2-seeded, narrowed into 

 a stalk at the base and a beak at the apex. 



Dalbergia Baroni, n. sp. 



Arborea, ramulis pilosis, foliis pinnatis breviter petiolatis, foliolis 15-25 

 oblanceolato-oblongis rigiriis 1-nervatis dorso nervatis, floribus in paniculas 

 parvas deltoideis dispositis, calycis dentibus Iatis, petalis calycem duplo 

 superantibus, staminibus uionadelphis, legumine tenui rigido 1-2-sperao. 



A much-branched erect tree, with pilose branchlets. Leaves 

 2-4 in. long, exclusive of the short petiole ; leaflets opposite or 

 alternate, with a short petiolule, obtuse, |-| in. long, firm in 

 texture, the margin rather recurved, pilose only on the prominent 

 midrib beneath, the other veins invisible. Flowers in small del- 

 toid panicles with pubescent branchlets; pedicels very short. 

 Calyx campanulate, T V in. long, with an ovate bracteole at the 

 base ; teeth half-orbicular. Corolla £ in. long. Filaments all 

 united in the lower half in a sheath slit along the top ; anthers 



