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Alberta lattrifolia, Baker, n. sp. 



A shrub or small tree, with slender terete branchlets, glabrous 

 in all its parts. Leaves shortly petioled ; stipules deltoid, sca- 

 riose, deciduous ; blade oblong or obovate-oblong, obtuse, entire, 

 1-2| in. long, rigidly subcoriaceous, glossy and bright green 

 above, paler beneath, with prominent veinlets. Flowers in den! 

 cymes from the end of the branchlets and axils of the upper 

 leaves; pedicels finally \-\ in. long. Calyx oblong- cylindrical, 

 angled, \ in. long ; calyx- segments oblanceolate, obtuse, equal, 

 persistent, finally g in. long, pale brown, conspicuously veined, 

 moderately firm in texture. Corolla tubular, reddish, \ in. long, 

 with 5 deltoid contorted segments. Anthers 5, linear, hairy, in- 

 serted near the throat of the corolla-tube ; filaments very short. 

 Style much exserted from the corolla-tube. — Ankaratra moun- 

 tains. This is the Madagascar species of the genus alluded to in 

 the ' Genera Plantarum.' It was gathered long ago by Bojer, 

 who says on his label that the Malagash name for the tree is 

 " La-loona." The only other species known is a plant of the Cape. 



Vebnonia (§ Decaneuettm) tanalensis, Baker, n. sp. 



A shrub, with slender terete branchlets, clothed with dense 

 short brown silky pubescence. Leaves alternate, distinctly petioled, 

 broad oblong, acute, cuneate at the base, 2-3 in. long, minutely 

 dentate, moderately firm in texture, nearly glabrous above, thinly 

 matted with persistent brownish silky pubescence beneath. 

 Heads 12-20, in a dense terminal corymb on short ascending 

 pubescent pedicels xT~k m - long. Involucre hemispherical, under 

 \ in. diam. ; bracts 3-4-seriate, lanceolate, the outer rows gra- 

 dually smaller, dull brown, thinly pubescent. Achenia multicos- 

 tate, only seen immature ; pappus of about 30 whitish shortly 

 ciliated setae under \ in. long. Corolla purple, with a tube as 

 long as the pappus and a funnel-shaped limb with linear segments. 

 Style-arms 1 line long. — Tanala. Allied to the Abyssinian V. 

 Hochstetteri, Schultz Bip. 



Centaueopsis feuticosa., DC. Tanala. 



Senecio micbodontus, Baker, n. sp. 



A glabrous herbaceous perennial, with erect stems a foot or a 

 foot and a half long, simple below the inflorescence. Lower leaves 

 crowded near the base of the stem, simple, obloug-spathulate, 

 obtuse, minutely inciso-crenate, the lowest almost petioled, but 



