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A shrub, glabrous in all its parts, with slender woody terete 
branchlets. Leaves alternate ; petiole 3-1 in. long ; blade 1-12 in. 
long, under an inch broad, oUtse. deltord at the base, thick and 
rigid in texture, dark green above, drab beneath, with fine incon- 
spicuous veining. Flowers in copious small cymes in the axils of 
the leaves; peduncle 1-1 in. long; pedicels a little longer than 
the flowers; bracts minute, deltoid. Calyx minute, with 5 
deltoid lobes. Expanded corolla not more than 4; in. in diam. ; 
petals orbicular, yellowish green, much imbrieated. Fruit hard, 
brown, globose, 3-4 in. in diam., simple or two-lobed.— Central 
Madagascar, Baron 1938! 2159! 
ELEODENDRON PILOSUM, n. sp. 
E. ramulis pilosis, foliis parvis alternis breviter petiolatis subcoriacels 
obovatis vel oblongis subintegris facie glabris dorso obscure pilosis, cymis 
axillaribus 2-3-floris breviter pedunculatis, pedicellis brevibus, bracteis 
minutis deltoideis persistentibus, calycis segmentis 5 deltoideis, petalis 5 
parvis orbicularibus luteo-viridibus, staminibus quam poe duplo breviori- 
bus, fructu biloculari putamine crasso corneo. 
A shrub, with very slender densely pilose terete woody 
branchlets. Petiole 3-1 in., densely pilose ; blade 3-14 in. long, 
1-i in. broad, obtuse, rounded at the base, obscurely crenulate, 
firm in texture, green on both surfaces, with fine ascending main 
veins, obscurely pilose beneath. Cymes copious, axillary, shorter 
than the leaves, 2-3-flowered; pedicels not longer than the 
flowers, pilose, with small persistent deltoid bracts at the base. 
Expanded corolla 4!; in. in diam.; sepals pilose, half as long as the 
orbicular petals. Disk large, pentagonal. Stamens 5, not more 
than half as long as the petals; anthers orbicular. Drupe not 
larger than a pea, oblong, 2-celled, with a thick bony endocarp. 
—Central Madagascar, Baron 1204! 
Vitis (§ Cissus) LENTICELLATA, n. sp. 
Fruticosa, glabra, ramulis gracilibus sarmentosis cirriferis copiose 
lenticellatis, foliis simplicibus obovato-oblongis cuspidatis serratis brevis- 
sime petiolatis firmulis glabris, floribus tetrameris in cymas laxas pauci- 
floras breviter pedunculatas dispositis, pedicellis quam flos 2-3plo longiori- 
bus, calyce campanulato truncato, petalis oblongis viridibus, staminibus bre- 
vibus. 
A woody climber, with slender branchlets roughened with 
copious lenticels and long tendrils of firm texture. Petiole not 
more than }-} in.; blade obovate-oblong, cuspidate, rounded at 
