FLORA OF MADAGASCAR. 447 



segments ; pedicel about as long as the perianth, articulated at 

 the tip. Female flowers and fruit not seen. — Baron 3261 ! 

 Allied to P. umbellata, Wecldell, of Bourbon. 



PoDOCARPFS (§EUPOT)OCARPTJS) MADAGASCARIEtfSIS, n. Sp. 



Arborea, glaberrima, ramulis apice tetragonis, foliis sessilibus lanceolatis 

 rigicle coriaceis uninerviis, floribus foemineis solitanis axillaribus sessilibus, 

 reeeptaculi bracteis oblongis, fructu globoso magnitudine pisi. 



A much-branched tree, with verticillate final branchlets. 

 Leaves alternate, very rigid in texture, reaching a length of 5-6 

 in. and a breadth of \ in., acuminate, narrowed to the base, drab 

 and rather glossy on both surfaces, flat, furnished with a distinct 

 midrib, all the other veins hidden, the margin very narrowly 

 recurved. Male flowers not seen. Female flowers solitary in 

 the axils of the leaves. Eeceptacle ^ in. long, the oblong bracts 

 free at the obtuse tip. Fruit hard, globose, brownish-black, 

 smooth, glaucous, \ in. in diam. — Baron 2794 ! 3129 ! Barker ! 

 " Wild and abundant in the forests of the interior. "Wood ex- 

 tensively used in house-building, for flooring &c. Native name 

 ' Hetatra.' " Nearly allied to the Cape P. Thunbergii, Hook., 

 in London Journ. Bot. i. 657, t. 221. 



MONOCOTYLEDONS. 



Pandahtts (§Siissea) MiCROCEpnALCS, n. sp. 



P. foliis ensiformibus sesquipedalibus rigidulis aculeis crebris asccn- 

 dentibus marginatis, capitulis fructiferis subsessdibus solitariis parvis 

 globosis, drupis 50-60 oblanceolato-hexagonis 1- raro 2-locellatis dimidio 

 superiori liberis, apice libero oblongo-hexagoxio, stigmate magno reni- 

 formi adpresso. 



Leaves densely crowded at the summit of the peduncle, \\ ft. 

 long, an inch broad at the base, tapering to the point, not very 

 rigid in texture, margined with close minute erecto-patent 

 prickles. Fruit-head globose, solitary, nearly sessile, f-1 in. in 

 diam. Drupes 50-60, usually 1-celled, free in the upper half, \ in. 

 long, i in. in diam. ; free apex oblong, angled ; solitary stigma 

 horny, reniform, flat, T \ 2 in. in diam., occupying the whole tip.— 

 Baron 2321! Native name, " Isirihoalavo." Allied to Sussea 

 conoidea, Gaudich., Atlas Bonite, tab. 21 ; but that species has 

 an oblong head 4-5 in. long and only the upper third or quarter 

 of the drupes free. 



