LQ2 MR. J. G. BAKER ON THE 
3-2 in. long, 1-14 in. broad, shallowly cordate, entire or di- 
stinctly 3-lobed, with the side lobes obtuse and the middle one 
pointed, thin in texture, bright green above, dull grey-green 
beneath, the stellate tufts of hair sparse and indistinct. Umbels 
6-12- jow ered, on pilose lateral peduncles 1-2 in. long, surrounded * 
before expansion by a whorl of linear acuminate bracts like an 
involucre. Calyx i in. long., cut down nearly to the base into 
four lanceolate acute segments. Petals pale red, oblong-spathulate. 
Stamens half as long as the petals, the sterile ones few and in- 
distinctly papillose. Ovary globose, densely echinate; style as 
long as the petals. Capsule under an inch in diameter, beset by 
dense spreading spines j in. long.— Central Madagascar, by the 
side of streams in the province of Imerina, Bojer ! 
SPARMANNIA DISCOLOR, n. sp. (Tab. XXII. figg. 1-8.) 
S.ramulis pilosis, foliis longe petiolatis cordato-ovatis acuminatis serratis 
facie viridibus tenuiter stellato-pilosis dorso persistenter albido-incanis, 
umbellis simplicibus 12-20-floris pedunculatis, bracteis linearibus, calycis 
segmentis lanceolatis dense pilosis, petalis oblongis calyci æquilongis, 
staminibus exterioribus paucis sterilibus obscure papillosis, fructu globoso 
echinato. 
A shrub or small tree, with slender terete erat pilose woody 
branchlets. Petiole 7-1 in. long; blade 14-2 in. long, slightly 
cordate, acuminate, Bio eun never ighea. firmer and thicker 
in texture than in the last species, green and thinly stellato- 
pilose above, densely matted with persistent white tomentum 
beneath. Flowers 12-20 in simple umbels, on densely pilose 
slender erecto- vu. axillary peduncles an inch long; bracts 
linear, E. 3 in. long; pedicels as long as the flowers. 
Calyx 4 in. long, eut MINE es to the base into four lanceolate 
acute densely pilose segments. Stamens 30 or more, half as long 
as the petals, only a very few of the outer ones sterile and 
obscurely papillose. Style slender, filiform, obscurely 4-lobed at 
the tip. Fruit a globose 4-valved loculicidal capsule 4 in. in diam., 
exclusive of the patulous spines, which are } in. long.—Open 
forests of the province of Imerina, Baron 620! 1848! Two 
species of this genus are known at the Cape, and one in 
Abyssinia. 
TROCHETIA PENTAGLOSSA, n. Sp. 
Arborea, ramulis crassis, foliis magnis breviter petiolatis obovato- 
oblongis integris coriaceis facie lucidis dorso ad axillas nervorum solum 
