FLOWEBING PLANTS PEOM MADAGASCAB. 265 



in. long, all distinctly stalked, green and obscurely pubescent 

 above, grey and more densely pubescent beneatb. Flowers form>» 

 ing a lax panicle a foot long at the end of the branches,, 

 lower forks about as long as the fully-developed leaves 

 subtend them, and bearing five flowers in a lax deltoid rr 

 Sepals and stamens not seen. Achene suborbicular, compressed, 

 -^ in. long, obscurely stipitate, with a densely plumose, curved, 

 persistent style above an inch long. — Ibara country. Belongs 

 to DeCandolle's first group of the section Flammula, near 0. 

 Vitalba. 



Clematis (§ Flammula) stbigillosa, Baker, n. sp. 

 A climber, with slender branches, the young ones clothed with 

 dense, short, brown pubescence. Leaves pinnately trifoliolate ; 

 petiole above an inch long ; leaflets ovate or ovate-oblong, acute, 

 cuneate at the base, crenate, rigidly subcoriaceous, 3-4 in. long, 

 obscurely hispid on the upper surface when mature, nearly gla- 

 brous beneath, with raised veins and veinlets. Inflorescence a 

 very lax few-flowered panicle, terminal on the branches, the forks 

 from the axds of the fully-developed leaves bearing 3-9 distant 

 flowers. Sepals oblong, obtuse, whitish, densely pilose on the 

 outside, under an inch long. Stamens nearly as long as the 

 sepals. Style in the flowering stage ^ in. long, densely plumose. 

 — Tanala. Gathered also by Dr. Heller in 1862 in the Anevoca 

 valley, between Taraatave and Antananarivo ; and a nearly allied 

 species, with 5-foliate leaves with smaller entire leaflets, by Bojer 

 in woods at Mazangay. It is a near ally of the only Mauritian 

 species, C. mauritiana, Lam. 



Clematis oligophtlla, Hook. Ic. t. 80. Mr. Kitching's fine 

 range of specimens from the Ankaratra mountains show clearly 

 that this is a variety, with laciniated leaflets, of C. trifida, Hook. 

 Ic. t. 79. 



Ntmph^a stellata, Willd. Between Tamatave and Anta- 

 nanarivo. 



Aphloia the^efobmis, Bennett. Ankaratra mountains and 

 between Tamatave and Antananarivo. 



Poltgala volubilis, Bojer. Ankaratra mountains. 



Gomphia deltoidea, Baker, n. sp. 



A tree or shrub, glabrous in all its parts. Stipules deciduous ; 

 petiole very short ; blade oblanceolate-oblong, acute, cuneate at 



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