MR. J. G. BAKER ON THE FLORA OF MADAGASCAR. 407 



Further Contributions to the Flora of Madagascar.— Second and 

 Final Part. By J. G. Baker, F.B.S. 



[Read loth January, 1885.] 



In the present paper are described the remainder of the novelties 

 sent home by Mr. Baron up to the end of 1883. A report on 

 the earlier half of the same set is printed in Journ. Linn. Soc. 

 anted, pp. 317-353. Type specimens of all of them will be 

 found in the Kew Herbarium, and a large number of them also 

 at the British Museum. Fine and extensive collections have 

 lately been sent to Europe from the north-west of the island by 

 M. Humblot ; and distribution has been made of the large 

 gatherings made in the central provinces by the late lamented 

 Dr. Hildebrandt ,• so that our knowledge of Madagascar botany 

 at the present time is advancing rapidly. As Dr. Hildebrandt 

 and Mr. Baron have worked over the same ground, the plants 

 they have obtained are very often identical; but Humblot's 

 are mostly different. 



MONOPETALJE. 



ScHISMATOCLADA CONCTNNA, U. Sp. 



Arborea, glabra, stipulis deltoideis, foliis breviter petiolatis obovato- 

 cuneatis cuspidatis subcoriaceis, floribus in paniculas terniinales peduncu- 

 latas ramulis corymbosis dispositis, pedicellis brevissimis, calycis tubo 

 eampanulato dentibus deltoideis, corolla; tubo cylindrico segmentis ob- 

 longis tubo triplo brevioribus, staminibus segmentis sequilongis, fructu 

 oblongo ad basin bitido valvis rigidulis. 



A much-branched shrub, glabrous in all its parts, with slender 

 terete brancblets. Leaves 1^-2 in. long, narrowed from the 

 middle to the base, moderately firm in texture, green and glabrous 

 on both surfaces, with fine ascending main veins. Flowers 

 copious, arranged iu terminal panicles, with flat-topped branches. 

 Calyx ^L in. long ; teeth deltoid, as long as the tube. Corolla- 

 tube I in. long. Anthers linear, inserted at the throat of the 

 corolla-tube ; filaments filiform, equalling the anthers. Capsule 

 5 in. long, splitting down to the base into two valves.— Baron 

 (without number). 



SCHISMATOCLADA VIBURNOIDES, n. Sp. 



Glabra, stipulis deltoideis, foliis confertis subsessilibus obovato-oblongis 

 obtusis subcoriaceis, floribus in corymbos densos terniinales pedunculatos 

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