FLORA OF MADAGASCAR. 845 
bracteis orbicularibus fimbriatis, calyce minuto, ovario orbiculari uniloculari 
pubescente haud echinato. 
A small tree, with stout woody branchlets, downy at the leaf- 
bearing tip. Petiole 3-4 in. long; blade half a foot long and 
broad, green and obseurely pubescent above, whitish beneath, 
with raised cross-veins, and the petiole attached a little above its 
base.  Panieles erecto-patent, lateral, about as long as the 
petioles; bracts } in. diam., greenish, pubescent, deciduous. 
Immature fruit about the size of a pea, crowned by a short curved 
oblique stigma. —North Androna, Baron 5711! 
Frcus ($ ÜROSTIGMA) ASSIMILIS, n. sp. 
F. ramulis gracilibus glabris, foliis longe petiolatis ovatis acuminatis 
utrinque viridibus glabris, stipulis parvis lanceolatis, receptaculis parvis 
racemosis globosis glabris, pedicellis receptaculo brevioribus, bracteis 
minutis ovatis. 
A shrub, with slender branchlets, glabrous in all its parts. 
Petiole 14 in. long. ; blade 4-5 in. long, 2-23 in. broad, rounded 
at the base, moderately firm in texture, bright green on both 
surfaces, the arcuate main veins 1-1 in. apart, anastomosing just 
within the margin of the leaf. Receptacles 1-1 in. diam., crowded 
on the leafy branchlets; pedicels 4 in. long.—North-west Mada- 
gascar, Baron 5821! Nearly allied to F. infectoria, Roxb. 
Ficus ($ UROSTIGMA) PACHYCLADA, n. Sp. 
F. ramulis percrassis lignosis glabris, stipulis parvis lanceolatis, foliis 
petiolatis oblongis acutis rigide coriaceis glabris, receptaculis parvis 
globosis sessilibus pilosis ad ramulorum apices glomeratis, bracteis magnis 
ovatis. 
Final woody branches 4-3 in. diam. Leaves 5-6 in. long 
21-3 in. broad, unequally rounded at the base, the main veins 
distinct, distant, arcuate. Receptacles numerous, crowded at the 
tip of short branchlets, sessile, 3 in. diam., clothed with incon- 
spicuous adpressed hairs, and each subtended by three large 
adpressed bracts—Ankay, Baron 5162! Allied to F. Baroni 
and F. apodocephala, Baker. 
Ficus OXYSTIPULA, D. sp. | l l 
F. ramulis gracilibus glabris, stipulis longis angustis, foliis breviter petio- 
latis lanceolatis acuminatis glabris, venis tenuibus primariis subpatentibus, 
receptaculis globosis glabris magnitudine mediocribus longe pedunculatis, 
bracteis minutis. a cr 
A glabrous shrub, with slender flexuose final branchlets. 
| . ] - into a very slender point; 
Stipules $ in. long, narrowed gradually into a very sie , 
