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stems. Petiole l-2£ in. long; stipules simple, deltoid; blade 

 1-1! i n - l ori g> moderately firm in texture, nearly as broad as long, 

 furnished with two semicircular basal auricles, bright green 

 and glabrous on the upper surface, whitish beneath, with brown 

 slightly pubescent veins. Flowers several together, sessile in a 

 peduncled terminal head, surrounded by an involucre of distinct 

 imbricated pilose oblong foliaceous bracts £ in. long. Calyx 

 shorter than the bracts, pubescent. Corolla under | in. long, 

 pubescent. Stamens shorter than the corolla-segments ; anthers 

 liuear-oblong ; filaments very short. Fruit not seen. — Gathered 

 long ago by Gerrard (102 !), and now refound by Baron 2444 ! 

 and Humllot 133 ! 



Holocaepa, genus novum ordinis Eubiacearum tribus 

 Anthospermearum. 



Flores hermaphroditi. Calycis tubus parvus, campanulatus ; segmenta 

 5, raro 6, magna lanceolata foliacea inaequalia. Corolla bypocraten- 

 morpha, tubo cylindrico fauce villosa, segmentis oblongis patulis. Ova- 

 rium 3-5-loculave, ovulis in loculo solitariis erectis ; stylus elongatus fili- 

 formis apice bifidus. Stamina ssepissimc 5, infra faucem corolla; tubi 

 inserta, filamentis leviter applanatis, antheris oblongis. Fructus inde- 

 hiscens. seminibus in loculo solitariis. — Herba perennis Madagascariensis, 

 foliis oppositis subsessilibus obovato-oblongis, stipulis foliaceis, floribus 

 in cymas densas terminates breviter pedunculatas dispositis. 



Holocakpa vebokicoides, Baker. 



A perennial herb, with the habit of a Hedyotis or of Veronica 

 officinalis, with short, trailing or spreading, slightly pubescent, 

 slender terete stems. Leaves in opposite pairs, sessile, oblong 

 or oblanceolate-oblong, |-| in. long, obtuse, deltoid at the base, 

 green and glabrous on both surfaces, moderately firm in texture. 

 No veins except the midrib obvious ; stipules large, foliaceous, 

 persistent, linear or lanceolate, simple or compound, ciliated. 

 Flowers few together, in congested corymbose peduncled ter- 

 minal cymes ; pedicels none or very short. Corolla § in. long, 

 with a globose tube; segments lanceolate, foliaceous, unequal. 

 Corolla lilac; tube | in. long, cylindrical downwards, funnel-shaped 

 at the top ; segments oblong cuspidate, ^ in. long. Stamens 

 about as long as the segments ; anthers linear-oblong ; filaments 

 a little flattened, longer thau the anthers. Style filifoim, about 

 as long as the corolla-tube, bifid at the apex. Fruit globose, inde- 

 hiscent, | in. in diam., crowded by the large leafy calyx-segments ; 



