FLORA OF MADAGASCAR. 99 
erenate, the rounded basal lobes half as long as the rest of the 
blade, the texture moderately firm, the upper surface dull green 
and thinly tomentose, the lower matted with a thin coat of 
whitish tomentum. Flowers solitary, on slender densely pilose 
axillary pedicels sometimes an inch long.  Epicalyx of 9-10 
subulate persistent bracteoles 1-1 in. long, free down to the base. 
Calyx $ in, finally 1 in. long, densely pilose. Petals obovate- 
cuneate, 3 in. long. Column of styles and stamens a little shorter 
than the petals. Fruit globose, membranous, 1 in. in diam., of 5 
oblong hairy carpels without any awn.—Gathered long ago in 
Central Madagascar by Bojer and Lyall (189), and now refound 
by Kitching (Ankaratra mountains) and Baron (615! 933! 1869!). 
Allied to the Cape P. premorsa, Willd. (P. cuneifolia, Cav.). 
PAVONIA PLATANIFOLIA, n. sp. 
Perennis, ramis dense hispidis, foliis petiolatis cordato-orbiculatis 
palmatim 5-lobatis serratis utrinque pilosis, floribus multis axillaribus 
superioribus racemosis, bracteolis 8 linearibus persistentibus calyci aqui- 
longis, petalis rubris quam calyx 2-3plo longioribus, carpellis oblongis 
turgidis breviter l-aristatis. 
A robust much-branched perennial herb, the branches calvate, 
terete, and brown-black low down, densely shortly hispid upwards. 
Petiole of the lower leaves above an inch long; blade reaching 
3-4 inches both in length and breadth, with five deltoid lobes and 
large teeth, moderately firm and thick in texture, green and 
shortly hispid above, dull green and densely pilose beneath. 
Flowers abundant, 2-3nate on short peduncles, the upper cymes 
crowded and only minutely bracteated, the lower from the axils 
of leaves 1-2 in. broad. Epicalyx of 8 linear densely pilose per- 
sistent bracteoles, which are free down to the base, as long as 
the calyx and adpressed to it. Flower-calyx 4 in. long, densely 
pilose, the deltoid segments as long as the campanulate tube. 
Petals bright red, obovate-cuneate, 4 in. long. Column as long 
as the petals. Fruit globose, 1 in. in diam., consisting of five oblong 
turgid membranous carpels, each with a short retrorsely hispid 
awn from the inner angle, and each containing a single pale-brown 
glabrous seed.—Andrangaloaka, Dr. Parker. “Flowers pale 
scarlet. Bark tough, would make good string or rope." Allied 
to P. Bojeri, P. urens, and P. Schimperiana. 
Hisiscus oxaLnrrLonvs, Bojer, Hort. Maur. p. 28 (nomen 
solum). 
Annuus, diffusus, ramulis gracillimis pilosis, folis parvis petiolatis 
