FLORA OF MADAGASCAR. 459 



A tree or shrub, with loug slender pilose branchlets. Leaves 

 1-2 in. long, shortly petioled, rigid in texture, bright green 

 above, dull green beneath, with the main veins much raised and 

 connected by arches within the margin. Pedicels | in, long, 

 Calyx I in. long; teeth shorter than the tube. Petals 1| in. 

 long. Pilaments united in a cylindrical tube as long as the 

 petals, with 8 minute quadrate bifid teeth. Anthers y^ in. long. 

 Style exserted half an inch beyond the stamens. — Baron 4199 ! 



COMAITPHORA (BaLSAMODENDROn) FRAXINIFOLTA, U. Sp. 



Arborea, glabra, rarnulis vahdis inermibus, foliis imparipinnatis longe 

 petiolatis utrinque viridibus glabris, fobolis 5-7 ovatis vel oblongis sessili- 

 bus, paniciilis axillaribus laxis foliis brevioribiis, ramis inferioribus paucis 



brevibus corymbosis, pedicellis gracilibus flore interdum longioribus, 

 calycis segmentis ovatis, petalis angustis calyce paulo longioribus, ovario 

 ainpullseformi glabro stigmate sessili coronato. 



A tree, with stout glabrous brown sulcate branchlets. Leaves 

 8-9 in. long, including the 2-3 in. petiole; leaflets 3-4 in. loug, 

 shallowly creuate, moderately firm in texture, green and glabrous 

 on both surfaces. Panicles crowded at tbe end of the branchlets, 

 contem]3orary with the young leaves, 2-3 in. long, very lax, the 

 lower branches sparingly compound ; pedicels slender, \-\ in. 

 long. Calyx glabrous, \ in, long; tube short, camj)anulate ; 

 segments acute, firm in texture. Petals oblauceolate, \ in. long. 

 Ovary glabrous, narrowed very gradually to the sessile stigma. 

 Baron 4404 ! 



Commiphora (Balsamodendron) laxitlora, n. sp. 



Arborea, rarnulis validis junioribus pilosis, foliis longe petiolatis inipari- 

 plnnatis utrinque viridibus pilosis, foliolis 5-7 oblongis cuspidatis serratis, 

 racemis elongatislaxissimisbreviter pedunculatis, pedicellis crassis brevibus 

 infimis furcatis, calycis segmentis ovatis rigide coriaceis glabris. 



A tree, with stout branchlets, at first pilose. Leaves 8-9 in. 

 long, including the 3-iuch petiole; leaflets 2-4 In. long, the end 

 one largest, minutely serrated, rounded at the base, moderately 

 firm in texture, green and obscurely pilose above, paler and more 

 hairy beneath, with 8-10 pairs of fine ascending raised main 

 veins. Eacemes axillary, as long as the leaves ; rhachis slender, 

 glabrous ; flowers few, distant, solitary except the very lowest ; 

 pedicels xV~8 ^^' ^^^^g- Sepals 4, ovate, decussate, -j^ in. long. 

 Petals and fruit not seen.— JBaroT^ 4837! Closely allied to 

 C grandifolia^ Engler. 



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