412 MR. J. G. BAKER ON THE 



plant seems to belong to the American genus Fedilanthus, but 



the material is incomplete. 



Por convenience of reference I give a list of the recent papers 

 which have appeared in English periodicals, in which new or im- 

 perfectly known plants from Madagascar have been described. 



Genera, Species. 



1876. Ferns collected by Mr. and Mrs. William Pool, 



Baker, Journ. Linn. Soc. X7. p. 411 ... 2o 



1877. Ferns collected bj Miss Helen Gilpin. Baker, 



Journ. Linn. Soc. xvi. p. 197 ••• ^^ 



1879. Flowering Plants collected by L. Etching. Baker, 



Journ. Linn. Soc. xriii. p. 264 2 33 



1880. Ferns collected by L. Kitching, Baker, Journ. 



Bot. 1880, p. 326 13 



1880-85. Endemic Genera figured in Icones Plantarum. 



Micronychiai Oliver, t. 1337 ; Epallage, DO. 

 1. 1394; Rkaphispermiim.^QXiih. t. 1402; Car- 

 diochlamySy Oliv. t. 1403; Bembicia, Oliv. 

 t. 1404; Xerochlamys, Baker, t. 1413; new ... 3 3 



1 882. New Plants collected by Messrs. Baron and Parker. 



Baker, Journ. Bot. pp. 17, 45, 07, 109, 137, 189, 

 218, 243, 266 ; reprint paged differently 2 108 



New Plants collected by Messrs. Baron and Parker. 

 Baker (with synopsis of Cyptrus by 0. B. Clarke), 

 Journ. Linn. Soc. xx. pp. 87-304 5 392 



1883. New Monocotyledons collected by Deans Cowan. 



Eidley, Journ. Linn. Soc, xx. p. 329 1 1^ 



1884. On Hyahcalyx, a new genus of Turneracese. 



Eolfe, Journ. Linn. Soc. xxi. p. 256, t. 10 • 1 ^ 



New Plants collected by Baron. Baker, Journ. 



Linn. Soc. xxi. pp. 817, 407 8 190 



Cyperacese noTse. Eidley, Journ. Bot. p. 13 3 



Ferns collected by Humblot. Baker, Journ. Bot. 

 p. 139 ... 15 



1885. Complete list of all the known Orchids of Mada- 



gascar, with descriptions of new and little-known 



species. Eidley, Journ. Linn. Soc. xxi. p. 456 . ^^ 



New Orchids collected by Fox and Baron. Eidley, 



Journ. Linn. Soc. xxii. p. 116 19 



7 255 



1886. The present paper 



29 1163 



Thalamiflorje, 



POPOWIA MICEANTHA, n. sp. 



Arborea, glabra, ramulis graeilibus purpurascentibus copiose lenticellatis, 

 foliis oblongis petiolatis, floribus axillaribus solitariis longe pedicellatis, 

 8epali$ parvis orbicularibus, petalis 6, exterioribus orbicularibus, inteno- 

 ribus oblongis, staminibus carpellis sequiloDgis, carpellis 8-9 ovoideis 

 bninneo-sericeii. 



