FLOWERTNG PLANTS FEOM MADAGASCAR. 2G7 



to the base, firm in texture, £— | in. long, thinly coated on both 

 sides with adpressed white bristly hairs. Flowers in copious > 

 capitate racemes about as long as the leaves ; pedicels final)/ 

 g-j^j in. long ; bracts minute, deciduous. Calyx campanula /. 

 Y2 ***. l° n gj clothed with adpressed black and white hairs; feen. V" 

 lanceolate, as long as the tube. Corolla purple, | in. long7 om^lC 

 of the standard nearly orbicular. Pod straight, brown, subterete, 

 thinly bristly, about | in. long, many-seeded. — Ankaratra moun- 

 tains. Grathered previously by Bojer and Lyall, and distributed 

 by the former under the manuscript name of I. polyphylla, but 

 quite different from the Indian plant so called by DeCandolle. 

 It does not fit into any of the groups defined in the ' Flora of 

 Tropical Africa,' having the narrow leaves of the Stenophyllce in 

 combination with a shrubby habit and congested capitate racemes. 



Indigofera lefcoclada, Baker, n. sp. 



A shrub, with pale, slender, glabrous woody branches. Leaves 

 f-1 in. long; petiole very short; stipules minute; leaflets 7, 

 oblanceolate-oblong, alternate, petiolulate, obtuse, with a minute 

 cusp, green and glabrous on both side?!, the upper |-g in. long, 

 the lower smaller, suborbicular. Flowers in copious congested 

 racemes about as long as the leaves; bracts minute, linear; 

 pedicels under -^ in. long. Calyx obliquely campauulate, h lin. 

 long ; teeth linear or deltoid-cuspidate, shorter than the tube. 

 Corolla purple, glabrous, \—\ in. long ; blade of the standard 

 obovate. Staminal tube as long as the corolla. Ovary linear, 

 multiovulate. Pod not seen. — Ankaratra mountains. Belongs 

 to the section Tinctorial, near /. Schitnperi, Jaub. & Spach. A 

 much smaller species, not at all argenteous. 



Desmodium Scalpe, DC. Betsileo country. 



D. oxtbracteum, DC. Between Tamatave and Antananarivo. 



Clitorialascita, Bojer. Between Tamatave and Antananarivo. 



Strongylodon madagxscariexsis, Baker, n. sp. 



A shrubby climber, glabrous in all its parts. Leaves pinnately 

 trifoliolate ; petiole l\-2 in. long ; leaflets obovate or oblong cus- 

 pidate, entire, rather rigid in texture, green on both sides, 1^-2 

 in. long; stipelke minute, persistent, subulate. Flowers in dense 

 lateral racemes about 3 in. long, with tumid nodes, bearing each 

 a pair of flowers; peduncle as long as the raceme; pedicels 

 slender, au inch long. Calyx green, campauulate, |-J, iu. long ; 



