270 MR. J. 0. BAKER ON A COLLECTION OF. 



Combrettjm pachyclab-um, Baker, n. sp. 

 A tree 20-30 feet high, with stout terete branchlets coated with 

 own tomentum. Leaves shortly petioled, opposite, oblong, 

 se, entire, rounded at the base, rigidly subcoriaceous, 4-6 in. 

 glabrous on the upper surface, minutely pubescent beneath, 

 Mlln prominent veins and veinlets. Mowers in an ample termi- 

 nal deltoid panicle, the lower branches of which are compound 

 and subtended at the base by large leaves, the upper simple and 

 subtended by small ones ; racemes dense, subsecund, 1-3 in. 

 long ; pedicels spreading, T V- s in. long ; bracts minute, subulate. 

 Flowers pentamerous. Calyx campanulate, g iu. long ; teeth 

 ciliated, deltoid, shorter than the glabrous tube. Petals oblong, 

 bright crimson, twice as long as the calyx-teeth. Stamens 10, 

 exserted g-^ in. beyond the petals ; filaments bright red ; anthers 

 small, oblong, versatile. Fruit not seen. — Between Tamatave 

 and Antananarivo, where it was gathered by Dr. Meller in 1862. 

 A near ally of the well-known C. (Poivrcea) coceineum, Lam., from 

 which it differs by its small flowers, leaves rugose beneath, &c. 



Woodfordia floribunda, Salisb. Ibara country. 



Lagfrstrobmia madagascariensis, Baker, n. sp. 



A shrub, with slender, straight, terete, finely pubescent branch- 

 lets. Leaves oblanceolate, obscurely petioled, obtuse, with a 

 minute cusp, narrowed gradually from the middle to the base, 

 entire, rigidly subcoriaceous, an inch long, green, with minute 

 black dots on the upper surface, whitish, with more copious and 

 more distinct black dots beneath. Flow^ers pentamerous, in lax 

 racemes, with leaves from the nodes ; pedicels erecto-patent, 

 y'j-g in. long. Calyx campanulate, not at all plicate, $ in. loug, 

 with a thin coating of white tomentum outside, and minutely 

 dotted like the leaves ; teeth deltoid, much shorter than the tube, 

 spreading or refiexing. Petals oblong-unguiculate, bright mauve- 

 purple, I in. long. Stamens inserted low down in the calyx-tube, 

 | in. long ; filaments erect, bright mauve-purple ; anthers minute, 

 globose, bright yellow. Style filiform, just overtopping the sta- 

 mens ; stigma capitate. Fruit not seen. — Ibara country. Adds 

 this well-known genus of Tropical Asia to the flora of Madagascar. 

 It is not known on the African continent. 



Diciubtantuera madagascarjensis, Triana. Between Tama- 

 tave and Antananarivo. 



