90 MR. J. G. BAKER ON THE 
dense, about an inch long; pedicels very short; bracts minute, 
deltoid. Outer sepals oblong, obtuse, green, white-edged, 2 line 
long; wings 2 in. long, obovate-unguiculate, nearly white, with 
a green keel and two faint green inarching nerves. Keel pinkish, 
not longer than the wings, densely fimbriated at the tip. Cap- 
sule obovate, not scen fully mature.—Central Madagascar, Baron 
2123! A near ally of P. abyssinica, Fresen., and P. leptalea, DC. 
SYMPHONIA (SCunysoprra) MErLEmr, n. sp. 
Glabra, ramulis crassis, foliis subsessilibus obovatis obtusis basi cuneatis 
rigide coriaceis venis crebris subtilibus erecto-patentibus, floribus termi- 
nalibus umbellatis, bracteis magnis obtusis, pedicellis crassis flori æqui- 
longis, calycis magni segmentis orbicularibus valde imbricatis, disco quam 
calyx duplo breviore, dentibus staminiferis lanceolatis quam tubus duplo 
brevioribus, stigmatibus elongatis cylindrieis erecto-patentibus. 
An erect tree 20-40 feet high, glabrous in all its parts, with 
thick straight woody ultimate branchlets, with grey epidermis. 
Leaves 2-3 in. long, 1-1} in. broad, very obtuse, thick and 
rigidly coriaceous, narrowed gradually from the middle to the 
base, with fine close erecto-patent simple or forked veins visible 
on both surfaces. Flowers in whorls of five or six at the tip of 
the stout branchlets, surrounded by a whorl of obovate or sub- 
orbicular bracts 3-3 in. long; pedicels about 2 in. long, straight, 
stout, erect, articulated at the base. Calyx din. long; segments 
suborbicular, much imbricated. Petals pink, fleshy, orbicular, 
under an inch long. Disk eupular, half as long as the calyx. 
Stamens united in a tube 4 in. Jong, with 5 lanceolate segments 
half as long as the tube. Style with 5 erecto-patent forks l in. 
Jong.— Between Tamatave and Antananarivo, in marsh-lands by a 
river, Dr. Meller, gathered in 1862. 
SYMPHONIA ($ CHRYSOPIA) PAUCIFLORA, n. sp. 
Glabra, ramulis gracillimis, foliis petiolatis oblongo-lanceolatis acumi- 
natis subcoriaceis venis crebris subtilibus erecto-patentibus, floribus soli- 
tariis axillaribus et terminalibus flor subzquilongis, calycis parvi seg- 
wentis ovatis valde imbricatis, disco cupulato calyci subzequilongo, dentibus 
stamineis lingulatis quam tubus 2-3plo brevioribus, lobis stigmatosis 
brevibus stellatim patulis. 
An erect tree, glabrous in ali its parts, with very slender 
straight branehleis. Leaves opposite, shortly petioled, 13-2 in. 
long, 3 in. broad at the middle, deltoid at the base, narrowed gra- 
dually into along point, subcoriaceous, with fine close erecto- 
