424 ME. J. G. BAKER ON THE 



DlOSPYEOS GONOCLADA, n. 8p. 



Fruticosa, glabra, ramulis ancipitibus, foliis sessilibus oblongis obtusis 

 rigide coriaceis, floribus fceraineis in cymas axillares 3-4-floras dispositis, 

 pedicellis brevibus pilosis, calycis parvi segmentis 4 ovatis acutis, corollse 

 tubo brevi segmentis ovatis. 



An erect shrub, with slender glabrous branchlets, acutely 

 angled towards the tip. Leaves alternate, rigid in texture, 2-3 

 in. long, deltoid at the base, green on both surfaces, with distant 

 fine arcuate-ascending anastomosing main veins. Mowers 3-4 

 in lateral cymes, with very short peduncles and pedicels ; bracts 

 minute, lanceolate. Flower-calyx campanulate, glabrous, -£- in. 

 long, with 4 ovate acute segments 2-3 times as long as the tube. 

 Corolla -j in. long, glabrous ; segments 4, ovate, twice as long as 

 the tube. Fruit not seen. — Baron 2313 ! 



Of all these four new Ebonies we have only the pistillate plants, 

 two of them in the flowering and two in the fruiting stage, so that 

 much further material is wanted for a thorough knowledge of their 

 characters. 



HoLAEBHENA ? MADAGASCAEIENSIS, U. Sp. 



Volubilis, fruticosa, glabra, foliis subsessilibus obovato-oblongis subcori- 

 aceis cuspidatis, floribus in cymas umbellatas paucifloias axillares dispo- 

 sitis, pedicellis cernuis, calycis tubo campanulato segmentis ovatis, corolla; 

 tubo cylindrico segmentis oblongis tubo duplo brevioribus, staminibus supra 

 medium tubi insertis, folliculis cylindricis rigidis patulis. 



A woody climber, glabrous in all its parts. Leaves opposite, 

 almost sessile, 2-3 in. long, about an inch broad, rounded at the 

 apex to a large cusp, narrowed gradually from the middle to the 

 base, moderately firm in texture, green and glabrous on both sur- 

 faces, with 5-6 pairs of erecto-patent main veins. Flowers 3-6 

 in umbellate cymes in the axils of the upper leaves ; pedicels \- 

 3 in. long. Calyx \ in. long, the ovate segments twice as long as 

 the tube. Corolla with a cylindrical tube i in. long and 5 oblong 

 segments half as long as the tube. Anthers lanceolate-deltoid, 

 inserted above the middle of the corolla-tube, on short broad 

 filaments. Follicles woody in texture, 5 in. long, spreading at 

 a right angle from the top of the peduncles. Seeds with a coma 

 of soft hairs nearly an inch long.—Baron 3242 ! Differs from 

 Holarrhena in the insertion of the stamens. 



Adenoplusia axillaris, Eadlkofer, in Bremen Abhand. viii. 461, 

 founded on Hildelrandt M71 =Buddleia axillaris, Willd. ; Baker 

 in Journ. Linn. Soc. xx. p. 206 ; Baron 1481 and 1980. 



