320 MR. J. G. BAKER ON THE 
A shrub, with glabrous leaves and branchlets. Leaves crowded 
towards the tips of the branchlets; petiole 3 in. long; blade 3-4 
in. long, 2-11 in. broad, narrower from the middle to the base, 
firm in texture, green above, paler beneath, with distant erecto- 
patent main veins. Peduncles 1-13 in. long. Head globose, à 
in. diam. when in flower. Flowers concrete. Calyx-segments 
very small. Corolla-tube 3 in. long; segments 4 the length of 
the tube. Anthers about as long as the corolla-segments. Fruit 
edible.— Baron 5563! "The name in the province of Androna is 
Molopangady. 
SABICEA ACUMINATA, D. SP. 
S. ramulis teretibus pilosis, stipulis fimbriatis, foliis breviter petiolatis 
pilosis oblongo-lanceolatis acuminatis facie viridibus dorso persistenter 
albido-incanis, floribus paucis axillaribus subsessilibus, calyce dense piloso 
tubo brevi segmentis linearibus elongatis, corolla tubo subcylindrico elon- 
gato, segmentis lineari-oblongis tubo 3-4plo brevioribus. 
A shrub, with softly pilose slender terete branchlets. Leaves 
reaching a length of 3—4 inches, 1-11 in. broad below the middle, 
narrowed gradually to a long point, thin but firm in texture, 
green above, white beneath, with numerous parallel areuate- 
ascending main veins. Flowers subsessile in the axils of the 
leaves. Calyx densely pilose, $ in. long; tube short, oblong; 
segments linear, plumose, 4 in. long. Corolla-tube subeylindrical, 
densely hairy, a little longer than the calyx-segments ; segments 
5, 4 in. long. Fruit not seen.—North-west Madagascar, Baron 
5736! Near S. diversifolia, Pers. 
IXORA PLATYTHYRSA, n. sp. 
Glabra, stipulis ovatis, foliis petiolatis oblongo-lanceolatis acutis sub- 
coriaceis nitidulis, floribus permultis in paniculam amplam latam ramulis 
corymbosis dispositis, bracteis parvis lanceolatis, calycis tubo parvo cam- 
panulato, segmentis lanceolatis acutis, corollæ tubo cylindrico elongate, 
segmentis lanceolatis tubo 3-4plo brevioribus, stigmate e tubo exserto. 
A shrub, probably a climber, glabrous in all its parts. Petiole 
i-i in. long; blade 5-6 in. long, 11-2 in. broad, rather rounded, 
firm in texture, glossy on both sides, the veins beneath but little 
raised. Panicle orbieular, reaching a diameter of 8-9 inches; 
bracts small, copious, persistent; pedicels short. Calyx jz in. 
long ; segments much longer than the tube. Corolla-tube 3-2 
in. long ; segments 4, lanceolate, reflexing, 4 in. long. Stamens 
hidden in the corolla-tube. Stigma bifid, finally just exserted from 
