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the base, finely serrated, rigid in texture, glossy on both surfaces, 

 ^-4 in. long. Flowers in a sessile deltoid terminal panicle about 

 dong as the leaves; pedicels strict, glabrous, |-| in. long; bracts 

 \te, lanceolate. Sepals oblong, subacute, much imbricated, 

 ^i in. long. Petals obovate-cuneate, bright yellow, half as 

 long again as the sepals. Filaments nearly obsolete ; anthers 

 half as long as the petals, erect, connivent, dehiscing by a distinct 

 pore at the side of the tip of each cell. Style a little protruded 

 from the calyx. Fruit not seen.— Between Tamatave and Anta- 

 nanarivo. Three Madagascar species of this genus are figured 

 in DeCandolle's memoir on the Ocbnaeese. The present plant 

 comes nearer the common Asiatic G. angustifolia than any of 

 these, differing in the more distinct serrations of the leaves and 

 fewer larger flowers to a panicle. 



Calodrtum tubifloruat, Desv. Mr. Kitching's excellent 

 specimens from the Ibara country show clearly that the petals 

 are perfectly free when the flower expands, so that the genus 

 cannot be maintained as distinct from Quivisia, with which C. 

 DeCandolle has united it in his recent monograph. 



Vitis (§ Cissits) microdipteea, Baker, n. sp. 



A shrubby climber, nearly glabrous in all its parts. Stems 

 slender, angular, striated; tendrils much curved spirally above 

 the base, simple, margined by a couple of narrow crisped wings. 

 Leaves deltoid, bipinnate, immature at the flowering time, dis- 

 tinctly petioled, thin in texture, green on both sides; leaflets 

 ovate-acuminate, inciso-serrate, placed singly on the main rachis, 

 except the lowest, which are opposite, ternate, and distinctly 

 stalked. Flowers in a dense cyme 3-4 inches broad, on a short 

 stout leaf-opposed peduncle ; bracts obsolete ; pedicels erect, 

 tVI in. long. Flowers tetramerous. Calyx green, glabrous 

 truncate, patellaaform, |-f lin. diam. Bud oblong. Petals bright 

 red, ^ m. long, falling * itbout expanding. Style filiform, under 

 TY m. long.— Ankaratra mountains, gathered previously by 

 Mr. Pool. Marked from all the Tropical-African species by its 

 pinnate leaves. 



Indigofera Bojert, Baker, n. sp. 



A copiously-branched shrub, with slender, stiff, terete twigs 

 thinly clothed with adpressed white hairs. Leaves about | in 

 long ; petiole very short ; stipules minute ; leaflets 9-11, oblan- 

 ceolate, often complicate, obtuse with a cusp, narrowed gradually 



