NEW AND LITTLE-KNOWN MADAGASCAR PLANTS. 5 



about 1 cm., pedicels 1*5 cm. long; cymes with a few scattered 

 hairs and a dense hairy tuft in each fork. Sepals with 5-6 

 conspicuous black lines. Petals 7-8 mm. long, dotted with glands. 

 Staminal bundles with 3-6 anthers in each. 

 Shrub in woods, Fort Dauphin, 2331 ! 



GUTTIFER^. 



SPHiEROSEPALUM coriaceum, sp. n. (Plate I.) 



Arborea, ramis rugosis glaberrimis sulcatis, foliis oblongis 

 emarginatis coriaceis venulis prominentibus glabris, pedunculis 

 terminalibus, paniculis pinnati-ramosis tenuiter pilosis, sepalis 

 4 globosis orbicularibus externe villosis coriaceis margine mem- 

 branaceo, petalis 4 obovato-oblongis membranaceis, staminibus 

 sub 1-seriatis, ovario villoso, stylo ^implice primum deflexo. 



A forest tree with greyish glabrous bark. Leaves (excluding 

 petiole 1-2 cm. long) about 9-13 cm. long and 6-7 cm. broad; 

 stipules caducous ; veins prominent on both surfaces ; lateral 

 veins about 10 on each side, with very closely reticulated vein- 

 lets. Peduncles about 9 cm. long, with 2 or 3 pairs of opposite 

 branches, each of which ends in a 6-10-flowered subumbellato 

 cyme with pedicels 1-1*5 cm. long ; inflorescence covered with 

 short silvery hairs. Flowers in bud globose, about 7 mm. iu 

 diameter. Calyx rigid. Corolla yellow. 



Woods, Fort Dauphin, 2818 ! 



OCHROCARPUS PARVIFOLIUS, Sp. n. 



Arborea, ramis oppositis rarius ad nodos mcrassatis flavis 

 (saltern junioribus), foliis oppositis vel 4-natis obovatis vel 

 oblanceolatis brevissime petiolatis basi cuneatis sa)pissime obhisis 

 margine revoluto, pulvinulis lignosis cupularibus, pedunculis 

 subnullis, pedicellis cernuis, bracteis ovatis parvis, calyce primum 

 globoso glanduloso-apiculato demum fisso bipartite, petalis 4, 

 interioribus angustis, exterioribus orbicularibus, staminibus 

 4-adelphis, antheris numerosis. 



A tree with smooth irregularly furrowed bark. Leaves usually 

 3-5-6-5 cm. long and 1-5-2*5 cm. broad, sometimes almost acute, 

 thick in texture, with about 15 pairs of lateral veins running 

 into the revolute margin, and which are transversely crossed by a 

 set of dark venules.. Buds about 5 mm. in diameter ; pedicels 

 5-8 mm.; peduncles minute; flowers when expanded about 

 I cm. in diameter. Stigma scarlet. 



Woods near Fort Dauphin, 2710 ! 2840 ! 



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