FLOEA or MADAGASCAR. 527 



black furfuraceous ramentum. Male flower y^^ i^- ^^^g- Petals 

 oblong, obtuse, valvate, strongly ribbed. Sepals imbricated, 

 glossy, coriaceous. IVuit not seen. — Curtis IIG ! Eeceived from 

 Messrs. Veitch in 1881. This resembles D. pinnatifrons^ Mart., 

 in the shape of the leaflets, but the inflorescence is unbranched. 



Phloga poltstachya, Noronha^ in Thotiars, Frod, JBhytol, 

 Madag, p. 2 (name only) = Dypsis nodilera, Mart. Hist. Palm. iii. 

 312. 



Leaves 2-3 ft. long, simply pinnate ; rhachis compressed ; 

 end-segment formed of 2-1 confluent side-pinna?, deeply bifid at 

 the apex ; upper and lo\Yer side-pinnse single ; central crowded 

 into irregular whorls ; pinnae lanceolate,* 0-8 in. long, an inch 

 broad at themiddle, narrowed gradually to the base and deflexed 

 very acuminate apex. Spathe narrow, coriaceous, 4-5 in. long, 

 tightly clasping the stout peduncle. JSpadix copiously bipinnate ; 

 final branchlets very slender, curved, 6-8 in. long ; flowers laxly 

 disposed, usually solitary ; bract broad, ovate ; bracteoles minute, 

 orbicular. Male flower -^^ iu, long ; petals ovate, valvate, strongly 

 ribbed; sepals suborbicular, imbricated, \ as long as the petals; 

 stamens 6, half as long as the petals. Female flower with shorter 

 petals. Fruit oblong, \ in. long, brown in the dried specimens, 

 green when young iu the fresh state, red w4ien mature ; pericarp 

 thin, fleshy; seed single; albumeu horny. — Baron 508! Also 

 Mellerl ParTcerl and received from Hort, Linden as '' Areca 

 vmdagascariensis.'*^ Native name '* Ouvun^'' teste Meller; given 

 as ""' Oio Van'^ by Noronha, loc. cit., and ^' Anivona'^ by Dr. 

 Parker. 



Pa^^danus montat^^us, ^ory,=Sussea conoidea, Gaudich, Atlas 



JBonitCy tab. 21. 



Gathered iu South Betsileo-land by the Eev. Mr. Eowlands, 

 from whose specimen the following notes are made : — Leaves 

 4-5 ft. long, rigidly coriaceous, 1^-2 in. broad at the base, tapering 

 gradually to the point, closely margined with lanceolate erecto- 

 patent small prickles. Peduncle woody, | in. thick. Female 

 head oblong-trit^uelrous, | ft. long, 3 iu. m diam. Prupe clavate, 

 # in. long, ytruclure as drawn by Gaudiehuud.— JEfaro/* 4931 ! 



Paxdanus dxckioides, n. sp. ^ 



P. caule liguosoramoso, foliis dense rosuLitis linearibus acuminatis rigi- 

 duhs aculeis cornels magnis lanceolatis vel df Itoideis mar*^iuulibus artuatisy 



