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with slender decumbent stems. Stipules large, bifid, persistent ; 
petiole very short; leaves 7-4 in. broad, cut into 12-15 linear 
acute one-nerved segments. Racemes 1-2 in. long, very lax, 6-8- 
flowered, with very short pedicels and persistent palmatifid bracts. 
Calyx $ in. long, with a funnel-shaped tube, the bract of the 
epicalyx lanceolate, the inner deltoid.  Fruit-carpel solitary, 
ovoid, lenticular, placed low down in the calyx-tube.—Central 
Madagascar, Baron 1859! Allied to A. pedata and A. Rutenbergit. 
WEINMANNIA FLORIBUNDA, n. Sp. 
Arborea, ramulis pilosis, foliis brevissime petiolatis simplicibus (raro 
digitatim trifoliolatis) obovatis obtusis inciso-crenatis, floribus in spicas 
copiosas axillares et terminales dispositis, rhachibus pubescentibus, calycis 
segmentis oblongis obtusis, petalis oblongo-spathulatis calyce sesquilongi- 
oribus, staminibus 10 exsertis, ovario piloso. 
An erect shrub, with crowded pilose slender terete woody 
pilose branchlets. Leaflets 1-3, rigidly coriaceous, usually del- 
toid at the base, 1-1} in. long, conspicuously crenate, glabrous 
except the midrib beneath, which is finely pilose, the main veins 
distinct, erecto-patent, reddish. Flowers densely fascicled, mainly 
at the tip of the branches, in erecto-patent shortly-peduncled 
spikes about 2 in. long, with a finely pilose axis. Calyx minute, 
with 5 oblong obtuse segments twice as long as the tube. Petals 
oblong, obtuse, >in. long. Stamens twice as long as the petals ; 
anthers minute, orbicular. Ovary densely pilose, with two curved 
glabrous styles.—Central Madagascar, Baron 1674 ! 
CRASSULA NUMMULARLEFOLIA, D. sp. 
Annua, glabra, caulibus gracilibus decumbentibus ad nodos inferiores 
radicantibus, foliis breviter petiolatis suborbieularibus parvis integris, 
floribus 5-6meris solitariis breviter pedunculatis, calycis segmentis lanceo- 
latis basi connatis, petalis albidis acutis quam calyx paulo longioribus, 
staminibus inclusis, carpellis fruetiferis petalis subzequilongis. 
An annual herb, glabrous in all its parts, with very slender 
trailing stems 4-1 ft. long, rooting at the lower nodes.  Petioles 
very short, dilated and connate at the base; leaves opposite; 
blade fleshy, green, broad ovate or suborbicular, obtuse or sub- 
acute, i-i in. long and broad. Flowers solitary, axillary and 
terminal ; peduncle slender, shorter than the calyx. Calyx cam- 
panulate, j in. long; segments lanceolate, acute, joined at the 
base. Petals lanceolate, half as long again as the calyx. Stamens 
shorter than the petals, with flattened filaments and small oblong 
