FLORA OF MADAGASCAR. 331 
BRACHYACHENIUM INCANUM, Baker. Species sola. (Pl. LIII.) 
A much-branched shrub, with slender woody branches coated, 
like the leaves on both sides, with persistent white tomentum. 
Leaves alternate, shortly petioled, rigidly coriaceous, entire, under 
an inch long, obovate-oblong, narrowed gradually from the 
middle to the base, tipped with a small muero. Capitula solitary 
at the tip of the branchlets, subtended by one or two small 
reduced leaves. Involuere above 4 in. long; bracts very rigid, 
the inner naked, the outer slightly cottony. Corolla 4 in. long. 
Pappus as long as the corolla. Anthers } in. long; auricles as 
long as the filament.— West Madagascar, on a sterile plain near 
Trabonjy, Hildebrandt 3446! Baron, next 5367! 
PHILIPPTA MYRIADENIA, n. sp. 
Ramosissima, ramulis albo-incanis, foliis quadrifariis parvis linearibus 
rigidis setis brevibus glandulosis densis przditis, floribus ad ramorum 
apices paucis dense glomeratis, sepalis ovatis glanduloso-hispidis, corolla 
campanulata lobis obtusis erectis, antheris liberis exsertis filamentis 
connatis, stylo brevi. 
An erect shrub, with copious ascending slender white branchlets. 
Leaves crowded, ascending, } in. long, densely beset with rigid 
gland-tipped bristles. Corolla } in. long. Sepals densely glan- 
dular like the leaves, more than half as long as the corolla. 
Style distinetly exserted from the corolla.—Imerina, Baron 
5543! 
PHILIPPIA LEUCOCLADA, n. Sp. 
Ramosissima, ramulis albo-incanis, foliis quadrifariis parvis linearibus 
rigidis glabris, floribus ad ramorum apices confertis, sepalis crassis ovatis 
glabris, corolla campanulata profunde lobata, antheris coalitis breviter 
exsertis, stylo brevi. 
A much-branched erect shrub, with slender ascending branch- 
lets, coated with white tomentum. Leaves glossy, glabrous, very 
deciduous, 4-4 in. long. Corolla 4'; in. long and broad. Sepals 
more than half as long as the eorolla. Stigma large, peltate, 
only just overtopping the anthers.—North Antsihanaka, Baron 
5485! Near P. senescens. 
PHILIPPIA SENESCENS, n. Sp. " 
Ramosissima, ramulis tenuiter albo-incanis, foliis quadrifariis parvis 
linearibus rigidis glabris imbricatis, floribus sparsis, sepalis crassis ovatis 
glabris, corolla campanulata segmentis oblongis, antheris inclusis coalitis, 
stigmate exserto. 
