PL0KA OP MADAGASCAR 443 



A much-branched tree, glabrous in all its parts. Leaves 2-3 

 in. long, f-lj in. broad above the middle, more or less cuspidate, 

 narrowed below the middle to a rather rounded base, moderately- 

 firm in texture, green and glabrous on both surfaces, with 6-8 

 pairs of arcuate-ascending main veins distinct from midrib to 

 margin. Female flowers in racemes of 6-8 on short peduncles 

 from the flowering branchlets ; bracts minute, deltoid ; pedicels 

 finally ■£$ in. long. Fruit globose, \ in. in diam., lepidote, girt at 

 the base by the persistent perianth; style y 1 ^ in. long, subulate. 

 —Baron 2898 ! 



ClIiETACME MADAGASCABIENSIS, n. 8p. 



Arborea, glabra, aculeata, foliis breviter petiolatis late oblongis rigide 

 coriaceis lucidis, floribus foeraineis solitariis axillaribus brevissime pedicel- 

 latis, fructu globoso stigmatibus 2 subulatis coronato. 



A tree, glabrous in all its parts, with the slender terete 

 branches armed with an erecto-patent pungent spine g-| in. long 

 from the axil of each leaf. Leaves alternate, very thick and 

 rigid in texture, 2-2| in. long, 1-1| in, broad at the middle, 

 glossy on both surfaces, subobtuse, unequal at the base, with a 

 strong midrib and fine side- veins ; petiole \ in. long. Male 

 flowers not seen. Drupes globose, g in. in diam., solitary on short 

 pedicels in the axils of the leaves, with a large endocarp. 

 Stigmas subulate, persistent, J in. long. — Baron 2397 ! This is 

 a genus allied to Celtis, of which only a single species is already 

 known, which extends from the Cape to Angola and Niam-]N"iam 

 Land. 



Ftcus (§TTrostigma) tili^folia, n. sp. 



Glabra, stipulis parvis coriaceis, foliis alternis petiolatis cordato-orbicu- 

 laribus subcoriaceis scabris, receptaculis magnis solitariis sessilibus glo- 

 bosis. 



A shrub, with sulcate moderately stout brown glabrous branch- 

 lets. Leaves 4-5 in. long and broad, deltoid at the apex, entire, 

 decidedly cordate at the base, green and glabrous on both sur- 

 faces, scabrous above, with 5-6 pairs of erecto-patent main veins 

 reaching the margin ; petiole 1-lf in. long ; bracts small, rigid 

 in texture. Eeceptacles 1 in. in diam., very coriaceous, glabrous, 

 sessile from the side of small leafy branchlets.— Baron 3285 ! 



FlCTJS (§L T BOSTIGMA) SPH^ROPnTLLA, n. sp. 

 F. ramulis glabris, stipulis membranaceis acuminatis, foliis alternis petio- 

 latis magnis cordato-orbicularibus integris cuspidatis tenuibus glabris. 



