NEW AND LITTLE-KNOWN MADAGASCAR PLANTS. 35 



5 cm. long, with 3-7 pairs of shortly peduuculate cymules ; bracts 

 4 mm., pubescent. Sepals ending in a thickened subglandular 

 point ; calyx about 3 mm., scurfy pubescent. Corolla 1'5 cm. long, 

 with 4 short rounded lobes very hairy externally. Berry 1*5 cm. 

 long and 1 cm. broad, whitish and closely pubescent. Near 

 N. diversifolia, but with much larger leaves. 

 Port Dauphin, 2743 ! 



Nicodemia diyeesifolia, var. LUCiDA, nov. var. ; arborea, 

 ramis erectis, foliis ovatis ellipticis subacutis glabris (nisi petiolo 



ferrugineo-pubescente) lucidis. 



Leaves 45-5 5 cm. long and 2-2*5 cm. broad. 



Woods near Tort Dauphin, 2812! 2833 ! 



CONVOLVULACE^:. 



Bonamia TnouAESir, sp. n. 



Frutex, ramis divarieatia dense velutino-pubescentibus, foliis 

 ellipticis acutis subcuspidatis breviter petiolatis, supra demum 

 glabratis subtus velutino-pubesceutibus, racemis terminalibus 

 brevibus paucifloris, bracteis parvis, pedicellis brevibus supra 

 basin articulatis, calycis segmentis oblongis emarginatis dorso 

 villosis, corolla? urceolaris segmentis triangularibus externe hir- 

 sutissimis, stylo brevi, stigmate subbilobo. 



A Ioav branching shrub. Branches covered with thick golden 

 velvety tomentum when young. Leaves densely hairy below, 

 eventually almost glabrous on the upper surface, 3-4 cm. long 

 and rS-2'5 cm. broad, with a petiole 5 mm. Calyx-segments 

 about 5 mm. long and almost as broad. Corolla with triangular 

 lobes externally covered with long golden hairs ; within quite 

 glabrous ; margins inflexed, cartilaginous. Capsule glabrous. 



Woods near Fort Dauphin, 2688 ! 



Distinguished from B. madagascariensis by its pubescence and 

 other points. 



SCEOPHULAEINE^E. 



Leucosalpa, gen. nov. Scrophularinearum. 



Calyx .campanulatus minute 5-dentatus puberulus. Corollae 

 tubus elongatus cylindraceus incurvus superne parum ampliatus ; 

 lobi 5 breves dorso villosi subsequales rotundati. Stamina 4 

 didynama inclusa; antherae disereta) subparallelse basi longe 



attenuate filiformes. Stylus corollain paullo superans, stigmate 



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