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A small erect shrub, with very numerous ascending slender 
branchlets. Leaves deciduous, glossy, 715-3 in. long, the edges 
recurved so as to show only the white midrib. Flowers few 
together at the tips of the branchlets; sepals half as long as 
the corolla. Corolla > in. long, deeply cleft. Stigma only 
just exserted beyond the tip of the corolla-segments.—N orth 
Ankay, Baron 55381 5541! Near P. eryptoclada, Baker. 
PHILIPPIA PILOSA, n. sp. 
P. caulibus dense ceespitosis erectis dense pilosis, foliis parvis quadrifariis 
lineari-oblongis ascendentibus dense pilosis, floribus paucis in glomerulos 
cernuos dispositis, sepalis lineari-oblongis pilosis corolla campanulata zequi- 
longis, antheris liberis vix exsertis, stigmate exserto. 
Stems densely clustered, erect, little branched, about a foot 
long, densely clothed, as are the leaves, with ascending whitish 
rather bristly hairs. Leaves about 4 in. long, the whorls not 
imbricated except towards the tip of the branchlets. Corolla 
q% in. long and broad, hidden by the hispid sepals; segments 
obtuse, erect.— Baron 1901! Ankaratra mountain, 5186! 
PHILIPPIA ADENOPHYLLA, n. sp. 
Ramosissima, ramulis dense hispidis, foliis quadrifariis minutis lineari- 
oblongis dense glanduloso-hispidis, floribus glomeratis, sepalis ovatis 
hispido-ciliatis, corolla campanulata profunde lobata, antheris liberis 
exsertis, stigmate conspicue exserto. 
A much-brauched shrub, with rather stout branchlets, densely 
clothed with whitish spreading unequal bristly hairs. Leaves 
about jz in. long, rigid, erecto-patent, ciliated with gland-tipped 
bristles. Flowers in dense clusters at the tips of the branchlets. 
Corolla broadly campanulate, „; in. long and broad. Style 
much exserted beyond the corolla; stigma large, peltate.— 
Imerina, Baron 5549! Near P. trichoclada, Baker. 
AGAURIA NUMMULARIFOLIA, n. sp. 
Fruticosa, ramosissima, ramulis glanduloso-hispidis, foliis brevissime 
petiolatis orbicularibus rigide coriaceis facie viridibus dorso glaucis, race- 
mis laxis elongatis, pedunculo pedieellisque glanduloso-hispidis, calycis 
segmentis ovatis obtusis, coroll tubo urceolato segmentis brevibus. 
A much-branched shrub, with slender woody minutely hispid 
branchlets. Leaves about 4 in. long, naked on both sides, bright 
green above, very glaucous beneath. Racemes about 2 in. long; 
pedicels 4-4 in. Calyx } in. diam. ; segments reddish, about as 
long asthetube. Corolla bright red, 1-2 in. long. Stamens half 
