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the base, ineonspieuously or sometimes distinctly serrated, 11-2 
in. long, moderately firm in texture, green and glabrous on both 
surfaces. Flowers few together in cymes on short peduncles, 
which sometimes are aggregated into a panicle at the end of the 
branchlets; pedicels glabrous, 3-4 in. long. Calyx campanulate, 
2 lin. in diam., quite truncate. Petals greenish, oblong. Disk 
very prominent. Stamens very short. Immature fruit glabrous, 
oblong.—Central Madagascar in forests of the province of 
Imerina, Baron 404! 439! 1294! 1934! Allied to F. producta, 
Afzel., of Sierra Leone. 
Vitis ($ Crssvs) TRITERNATA, n. sp. 
Fruticosa, ramulis gracilibus glabris sarmentosis copiose cirriferis, foliis 
triternatis, foliolis oblongis cuspidatis serratis membranaceis utrinque viri- 
dibus glabris, floribus minutis tetrameris in cymas multifloras dispositis, 
pedicellis brevissimis, calyce patellaformi obscure lobato, petalis oblongis 
viridibus, staminibus 4 quam petala brevioribus, 
A climber, with very slender woody glabrous branchlets with 
copious simple or compound slender tendrils. Fully developed 
leaves deltoid, 2-3 in. long and broad, triternately compound, 
with a common petiole about an inch long; leaflets oblong, with 
a large cusp, 1-1 in. long, narrowed to a rounded base, strongly 
serrated, thin in texture, green and glabrous on both surfaces. 
Cymes lateral, 1-1} in. broad, with three main forks, bearing 
Sometimes 100 flowers, the peduncle 1-14 in. long, sometimes 
bearing a small petioled biternate leaf; branches pilose; final 
pedicels very short. Bud globose, not more than half a line in 
diam. Calyx patelleform, green, obscurely 4-lobed. Petals 4, 
oblong, greenish, 1 line long. Stamens 4, shorter than the 
petals. Berry unknown.—Central Madagascar, Baron 743! 
Nearly allied to V. biternata, Baker in Trimen's Journ. 1882, 
p. 90. 
CALYXCIFLORE. 
LEBECKIA? RETAMOIDES, n. sp. 
Fruticosa, erecta, ramosissima, ramulis erectis virgatis multisulcatis 
aphyllis superne pilosis, floribus ad apices ramorum paucis laxe racemosis, 
bracteis minutis deltoideis, calycis pilosi tubo campanulato dentibus 5 
tubo zequilongis, petalis rubellis calycem duplo superantibus, vexillo orbi- 
culari extus velutino, carina obtusa quam vexillum paulo breviore, legumine 
cylindrico parvo albido velutino septato 5-6-spermo. 
An erect shrub, with the habit of our English broom (Saro- 
