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white tomentum beneath, the end one 3-3 in. long, sharply ir- 
regularly serrated. Flowers few, corymbose, with long erect 
pedicels. Sepals 4 in. long, simple, acuminate. Petals oblong- 
spathulate, a little longer than the sepals. Fruit-carpels oblique 
oblong, glabrous, with a glabrous erect style from the inner edge 
and capitate stigma.— Central Madagascar, Baron 1815! Allied 
to the well-known Asiatic and Australian R. parvifolius, L. 
ALCHEMILLA BIFURCATA, Hilsen. et Bojer MSS. 
Perennis, caulibus dense sericeis, foliis breviter petiolatis orbiculatis 
profunde palmatim 7fidis firmulis facie glabris dorso persistenter sericeis, 
racemis axillaribus pedunculatis paucifloris laxis, bracteis minutis palmatim 
fissis, calycis dentibus 4 deltoideis quam tubus paulo brevioribus, bracteis 
minutis lanceolatis, staminibus 4, fructu carpello solitario. 
A perennial herb, with simple or branched densely silky stems 
afoot long.  Petiole not more than 1-4 in. long; stipules + in. 
long, scariose, with lanceolate free points ; blade orbicular, about 
an inch broad, firm in texture, bright green and glabrous on the 
upper surface, densely clothed with whitish persistent adpressed 
silky hairs beneath, deeply palmately cut into 7 lobes, of which 
the three upper are oblanceolate, obtuse, sharply toothed in the 
upper half, and the four others smaller, lanceolate and subentire. 
Flowers few, in lax axillary racemes on long peduncles ; lower 
solitary, shortly peduncled in the axils of small palmately cleft 
bracts ; upper 3-4 aggregated. Flower-calyx silky, a line long ; 
segments 4, deltoid, nearly as long as the tube; bracts of the 
epicalyx 4, lanceolate, smaller thaa the calyx-segments. Stamens 
4, minute, inserted at the throat of the calyx-tube. Fruit-carpel 
Solitary, placed near the base of the tube-—Mountains of the 
province of Imerina, Bojer! Baron 2045! Resembles most 
A. alpina in habit and pubescence. A. madagascariensis, recently 
described by Dr. Hoffmann in ‘ Reliquie Rutenbergianz, part v. 
336, was also gathered by Hilsenberg and Bojer and distributed 
by them under the name of A. potentilloides, and has also been 
found by Mr. Baron, no. 845. 
ALCHEMILLA SCHIZOPHYLLA, N. sp. 
Perennis, dense sericea, caulibus gracillimis decumbentibus, stipulis 
bifidis persistentibus, foliis petiolatis orbicularibus palmatifidis segmentis 
linearibus aeutis uninerviis, floribus laxe racemosis, calycis dentibus 4 
quam tubus 2-3plo brevioribus, carpello solitario maturo ovoideo. 
A much branched perennial herb, densely silky in all its parts, 
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