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are usually without bracteoles, but have rarely one or two minute 

 ones. Calyx broadly campanulate, ^ in. long, firm in texture, 

 green, with 5 obscure subdeltoid teeth. Corolla oblong from a 

 cylindrical base, bright red, |~|- in. long, the lobes short and 

 obscure. Stamens 4, exserted, the filiform filaments inserted at 

 the throat of the contracted lower portion of the corolla-tube ; 

 anthers with 2 small, oblong, divaricating lobes. Style filiform, 

 about an inch long. — Betsileo-land. This is not the undescribed 

 Madagascar species mentioned in the ' Genera Plantarum,' ii. 936, 

 which has smaller, ovate, distinctly dentate leaves'and conspicuous 

 calyx-segments, and is closely allied to H. elliptica, Linn., of the 

 Cape. 



Colea floeibunda, Bojer. Between Tamatave and Anta- 

 nanarivo. 



KlGELIA MADAGASCARIENSIS, Baker, U. sp. 



A shrub with the leaves in a rosette at the tip of the branch- 

 lets, not fully developed at the flowering -time, distinctly petioled, 

 imparipinnate ; leaflets 7-jugate, oblanceolate, slightly pubescent, 

 the lowest binate. Flowers 6-10 in a corymbose cyme at the 

 end of the branchlets ; pedicels cernuous, -|— 1 inch long ; bracts 

 minute, deltoid, deciduous. Calyx campanulate, glabrous, an inch 

 long ; segments semiorbicular, shorter than the tube. Corolla 

 infundibuliform, bright red, 3-3^ in. long ; tube dilated gradually 

 from the base to a throat above an inch in diameter, pilose at the 

 insertion of the stamens ; segments subequal, oblong, obtuse, 

 under an inch long. Stamens 4, decurved, inserted near the 

 base of the tube, reaching to its throat ; filaments filiform, above 

 an incli long ; anthers cordate-ovate, obtuse, versatile, \ in. long. 

 Ovary cylindrical ; style reaching up to the anthers ; stigma with 

 two oblong lamella?. — Ibara country. Differs from K. athiopica, 

 Dene, in Deless. Ic. vol. v. t. 93 a, by its more numerous leaflets, 

 the lower ones binate, corolla-tube dilated gradually from the 

 base to the throat, and corolla-segments about half an inch 

 broad. 



Phyllarthkon BoJErianum, DC. Betsileo-land. 



Mimulopsis speciosa, Baker, n. sp. 



A diffuse herbaceous perennial, with square stems, conspicu- 

 ously constricted above the nodes, the young branches clothed 

 with short dense glandular pubescence. Leaves petioled, oblong- 



