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teeth very short. Corolla red ; standard reflexing, the oblong 

 acute blade an inch long ; wings standing forward, oblique oblong, 

 re than half as long as the standard ; keel half as long again 

 ^e standard, narrowed gradually into an acute incurved beak, 

 -and stamens reaching into the beak of the keel. — Between 

 Jonratave and Antananarivo. A striking plant, with flowers rather 

 like those of Clianthus puniceus. There are only two or three 

 Bpecies known previously, in Ceylon and Polynesia. 



Dichrostachts tenitifolia, Benth. Ankaratra mountains. 



Rtjbus ros-efolixjs, Smith. Between Tamatave and Antanana- 

 rivo. 



Brexia madagascariensis, Thouars. Between Tamatave and 

 Antananarivo. 



Brtopiitllum calycinum, Salisb. Between Tamatave and 

 Antananarivo. 



Kitciiingia, Baker, genus novum. Nat. Ord. Crassiilacete. 



Flowers tetramerous. Calyx small, gamosepalous, campanulate, the 

 deltoid or deltoid-orbicular segments as long as the tube. Corolla 

 gamopetalous, tubuloso-campaiiulate, the 4 orbicular or deltoid- orbicular 

 segments much shorter than the tube. Stamens 8, slightly biseriate, 

 inserted at above the middle of the corolla-tube; filaments filiform ; 

 anthers minute, globose. Carpels of the pistil 4, free, diverging ; ovaries 

 small, oblong, multiovulate ; styles filiform, long, slender; stigma capi- 

 tate; hypogynous scales minute, quadrate, truncate. Follicles small, 

 oblong, membranous, many-seeded. — Succulent perennial glabrous herbs, 

 with flexuose stems, numerous opposite sessile or petioled crenate fleshy 

 cauline leaves, and large bright-red flowers in lax terminal cymes. Allied 

 to Bryophyllum, from which it recedes by its small calyx and divergent 

 carpels. 



Kitchingia gracilipes, Baker. (Plate VII.) 

 Stems slender, terete, flexuose from a decumbent base, g-1 ft. 

 long, sending out root-fibres from the lower nodes. Leaves op- 

 posite, oblong, obtuse, shortly petioled, about an inch long, cuneate 

 at the base, deeply crenate. Flowers 3-6, in a lax terminal cyme ; 

 bracts very minute ; pedicels very slender, J —J in. long, thickened 

 beneath the calyx. Calyx g in. long, the semiorbicular obtuse 

 segments as long as the tube. Corolla bright red, 1-1^ in. long, 

 the tube broadest at the middle, where it is half an inch in dia- 

 meter ; segments semiorbicular, \ in. long. Stamens inserted j ust 

 below the throat of the tube, those opposite the corolla- segments 



