1386 MR. J. G. BAKER ON THE 
base. Calyx about i in. long, with a campanulate tube and 5 
equal deltoid teeth. Petals lin. long, 4 in. broad at the tip, 
narrowed to a long claw. Stamens rather shorter than the 
petals, with filiform filaments and small versatile oblong anthers. 
Immature legume flat, thin, glabrous, narrowed gradually into a 
long gynophore and tipped with a straight persistent style 
nearly 3 in. long.— Central Madagascar, Rev. W. Ellis! Forest 
of Alamazaotra, Baron 1488! 1540! Allied to C. anomala, 
Vatke in Linnea, xliii. 337 (Hildebrandt 3368). 
RUBUS MYRIANTHUS, n. sp. 
Eglandulosus, aculeis parvis equalibus deltoideo-cuspidatis, foliis digi- 
tatim quinquefoliolatis facie viridibus glabris dorso albo-incanis, foliolo 
terminali obovato-oblongo cuspidato inconspicue serrato, floribus in 
paniculas magnas deltoideas ramis bipinnatis dispositis, sepalis brevibus 
ovatis dorso albido-incanis, petalis oblongis, fructu globoso carpellis 
multis parvis. 
A shrub, with slender angled stems glabrous when mature, 
finely downy when young, the prickles small, uniform and deltoid- 
cuspidate ; gland-tipped bristles none. Stipules small, lanceolate ; 
petiole above an inch long; leaves moderately firm in texture, 
bright green and glabrous above, clothed with thin white tomen- 
tum beneath; leaflets obovate-oblong cuspidate, the end one 
about 2 in. long, under an inch broad, with shallow inconspicuous 
teeth. Flowers very numerous, forming a deltoid panicle 6-9 in. 
long, with erecto-patent dense-flowered bipinnate branches, with 
only small leaves from the base of the lower ones. Sepals } in. 
long. Petals obovate, whitish, twice as long as the sepals.— 
Forest of Alamazaotra, Baron 1535! 1685! Leaves like those 
of the European R. discolor; panicle like that of the New-Zea- 
land A. australis, Forst., and Himalayan R. lucens, Focke. 
RUBUS PAUCIFLORUS, n. sp. 
Eglandulosus, aculeis paucis parvis æqualibus falcatis, folis pinnatim 
trifoliolatis facie viridibus glabris dorso albo incanis, foliolis argute serratis 
terminali ovato, floribus paucis corymbosis, sepalis ovatis acuminatis dorso 
albo-incanis, petalis oblongis, fructu globoso carpellis multis parvis. 
A shrub, with slender terete glabrous old stems, with distant 
very small falcate equal prickles, entirely without glandular sete. 
Stipules minute, lanceolate; petiole about 3 in. long; upper 
leaves simple; lower pinnately trifoliolate ; leaflets moderately 
firm in texture, green and glabrous above, clothed with thin 
