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Herbaceous, probably annual, with slender elongated glabrous 

 stems. Leaves in distant pairs, shortly petioled, membranous, 

 2-3 in. long, narrowed from the middle to both ends, slightly 

 pubescent. Flowers a dozen or more together in congested 

 peduncled terminal cymes. Calyx finally £ in. long, with 5 

 unequal lanceolate foliaceous teeth and a campanulate tube. 

 Corolla with a tube 5 in. long, and an expanded limb not more 

 than ^ in. in diam. Capsule globose, projecting at the apex from 

 the calyx, splitting into two valves at the top, with very numerous 

 minute seeds in each of the two cells. — Forests of Tanala pro- 

 vince, Baron 310 ! also 3292 ! 



Oldenlandia lattfolia, n. sp. 



Herbacea, annua, caulibus diffusis e basi copiose ramosis gracilibus 

 obscure pilosis, foliis sessilibus oblongis parvis inembranaceis ohtusis vel 

 subacutis, floribus axillaribus solitariis sessilibus, calycis dentibus lanceo- 

 latis tubo campanulato aequilongis, corollae albae segmentis oblongis tubo 

 cylindrico aequilongis, capsulis oblongis, seminibus in loculo paucis oblongis 

 nigris. 



An annual, with weak slender stems, diffusely branched from 

 the crown of the root. Leaves oblong, membranous, sessile or 

 nearly so, g-f in. long, slightly pilose ; stipules entire, deltoid. 

 Flowers solitary in the axils of the leaves all down the stem. 

 Calyx hispid, finally -J- in. long, with 4 foliaceous lanceolate per- 

 sistent teeth as long as the campanulate tube. Corolla white, 

 5 in. long. Capsule broad oblong, splitting down from the apex 

 to the base into two valves. Seeds few in each cell, minute, 

 oblong, with a black testa. — Baron 307 ! Also South Betsileo, 

 in the wood of Ankafina, Rildebrandt 3941 ! Allied to the Cape 

 O. rupicola, Sonder. 



Hedtotis teichoglossa, n. sp. 



Fruticosa, glabra, ramulis gracillimis, stipulis parvis deltoideis, foliis 

 petiolatis oblongis acutis membranaceis, floribus in cymas laxas terminales 

 pedunculatas dispositis, pedicellis brevissimis, calycis dentibus 4 deltoideis 

 tubo campanulato sequilongis, corollae albae tubo cylindrico, segmentis 

 lingulatis pilosis tubo vix brevioribus, antheris lineari-oblongis filamentis 

 brevissimis, stylo flori aequilongo. 



A shrub, glabrous in all its parts, with very slender straight 

 terete branchiets. Leaves shortly petioled, oblong, acute, deltoid 

 at the base, about 2 in. long by under an inch broad, bright green, 

 glabrous on both surfaces, distinctly pinninerved. Flowers in 



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