FLORA OF MADAGASCAR. 299 
Ovarium sessile globosum 5-loculare, ovulis in loculo geminis ; styli elon- 
gati sursum contorte applanati. Fructus ignotus. 
This seems to have quite as good a right to be placed in Tiliacex 
as in Sterculiaces, but its affinity is obviously with Melochia, from 
which it differs by its free indefinite stamens and the absence of 
staminodia. 
SPEIROSTYLA TILLEFOLIA, Baker. Species sola. (Plate L.) 
An erect shrub 12-25 feet high, with brown terete woody 
branchlets, clothed with stellate pubescence towards the tip. 
Leaves subdistant, alternate; petiole 2-4 in. long ; blade cordate- 
ovate, 6-10 in. long, 5-6 in. broad, entire, deltoid at the tip, 
resembling those of a large Tilia, thin in texture, green on both 
surfaces, nearly glabrous above when mature, pubescent beneath, 
with 5 strong veins radiating from the top of the petiole. In- 
florescence an axillary or terminal panicle with dense-flowered 
corymbose branches ; branchlets and calyx densely clothed with 
drab stellate pubescence; final pedicels short; bracts small, 
lanceolate. Calyx 1 in. long. Petals whitish, a little longer 
than the calyx. Stamens about as long as the calyx; anthers 
almost horizontal. Ovary densely pubescent.— North-west Ma- 
dagascar, Baron 5742! Hildebrandt 3262 ! 
GREWIA RADura, n. sp. 
G. ramulis lignosis pilosis, foliis breviter petiolatis oblongis obtusis penni- 
nerviis crenatis basi rotundatis facie scabris dorso pubescentibus, cymis ad 
ramorum apices aggregatis, pedunculis pedicellisque dense pilosis, sepalis 
magnis lanceolatis pilosis, petalis parvis, staminibus calyce zequilongis, 
ovario piloso. 
A shrub, with slender terete dull brown woody branches, with 
deflexed final branchlets. Leaves rather like those of Carpinus 
in shape, 11-2 in. long, crenulate, thick in texture but not rigid, 
green on both surfaces, pubescent beneath. Cymes restricted to 
the top of the branchlets ; peduncles and pedicels densely pubes- 
cent. Calyx l in. long, densely pubescent. Fruit not scen— 
North Antsihanaka, Baron 5494! 
GREWIA REPANDA, D. Sp. m l 
G. ramulis apice pubescentibus, foliis breviter petiolatis oblongis cus- 
pidatis denticulatis irregulariter repandis triplinerviis facie glabris dorso 
tenuiter pubescentibus, cymis copiosis 3-5-floris, sepalis petalis. stamini- 
busque zequilongis, ovario piloso. 
A small tree, with woody terete branchlets, ferrugineo-pubes- 
