120 MR. J. G. BAKER ON THE 
Petiole very short; blade 1-14 in. long, 4-3 in. broad, obtuse, 
thick and rigid in texture, inciso-crenate above the deltoid base, 
green and glabrous on both surfaces, with fine close veining. 
Flowers 1-3 together in copious axillary cymes shorter than the 
leaves; pedicels finally 41; in.long. Expanded fruit-calyx y in. in 
diam.; segments orbicular. Petals 5, ovate-oblong, twice as long 
as the calyx. Stamens with a filament as long as the orbicular 
incurved anther. Fruit a turbinate indehiscent brown coriaceous 
capsule under d in. long, with a depression tipped with the short 
persistent style in the centre of the three-lobed apex and single 
exarillate seed in each of the three cells.— Central Madagascar, 
Baron 1183! Will, not unlikely, prove a new genus. 
GYMNOSPORIA CRATJEGINA, n. sp. 
Arborea, glabra, spinosa, foliis petiolatis subcoriaceis ovato-oblongis 
obtusis serrulatis, cymis axillaribus compositis pedunculatis, pedicellis 
flore longioribus, bracteis minutis lanceolato-deltoideis, calycis segmentis 
5 orbicularibus valde imbricatis, petalis ovatis quam calyx 2-3plo longiori- 
bus, staminibus calyci sequilongis. 
A tree, glabrous in all its parts, with terete rather flexuose 
branchlets, armed with deflexed woody pungent cylindrical spines 
l-iin.long. Leaves alternate or fascicled on short suppressed 
branchlets; petiole under 1 in. long; blade 14-2 in. long, 
obtuse, deltoid at the base, subcoriaceous, dark green above, 
drab-green beneath, with fine immersed veins. Flowers 10-20 
in copious peduncled axillary cymes, which are sometimes as long 
as the leaves; pedicels 3-4 in. long. Calyx half a line long ; 
segments 5, orbicular, much imbricated. Petals 4l; in. long. 
Stamens 5, with filiform inflexed filaments and minute orbicular 
anthers. Fruit ‘not seen.—Central Madagascar, Baron 1194! 
2102! A near ally of G. leptopus and G. berberidacea. 
GYMNOSPORIA BERBERIDACEA, n. Sp. 
Ramosissima, glabra, spinosa, foliis parvis subcoriaceis brevissime petio- 
latis obovatis vel oblongis obscure crenatis szepe ad axillas spinarum fasci- 
culatis, floribus minutis 4-5meris in cymas copiosas pedunculatas 4-5- 
floras dispositis, pedicellis brevibus, bracteis minutis deltoideis, sepalis 
orbicularibus ciliatis, petalis obovatis quam sepala 2-3plo longioribus, stami- 
nibus inclusis. 
A much-branched erect shrub, glabrous in all its parts. Spines 
pungent, woody, straight, slender, i-i in. long. Leaves alter- 
nate or often fascicled in the axils of the spines, through the non- 
