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branchlets. Stipules minute, deltoid. Leaves shortly petioled, 
2-3 in. long, bright green, glabrous, moderately firm in texture, 
acute, narrowed gradually from the middle to the base. Flowers 
in ample terminal panicles with corymbose branches ; bracts 
minute, lanceolate. Flower-calyx j in. long. Corolla 4 in. 
long, pilose inside the tube, the teeth about a third as long 
as the cylindrical tube. Stamens as long as the corolla-segments. 
Capsule glabrous, globose, 4; in. in diam., crowned, as in the other 
species, by the persistent diminished calyx-teeth.— Forests of 
Central Madagascar, in the province of Imerina, Lyall 123 bis! 
Baron 494! 1073! 
DANAIS BREVIFLORA, n. sp. 
D. ramulis glabris, foliis oppositis breviter petiolatis obovato-oblongis 
magnis acutis, floribus in panieulas terminales ramulis corymbosis dispo- 
sitis, pedicellis brevissimis, calycis dentibus lanceolatis tubo campanulato 
duplo longioribus, corollz tubo infundibulari quam calyx paulo longiore, 
dentibus oblongo-lanceolatis, staminibus haud exsertis. 
A forest shrub, with glabrous terete branchlets. Leaves oppo- 
site, shortly petioled, glabrous, bright green, moderately firm in 
texture, 3-4 in. long, 18-21 lines broad, acute, narrowed gra- 
dually from the middle to the base. Flowers in an ample ter- 
minal panicle, with densely flowered erecto-patent branches ; 
pedicels very short. Calyx j; in. long, glabrous. Corolla } in. 
long, densely pilose at the throat, the spreading teeth half as 
long as the funnel-shaped tube. Stamens about as long as the 
corolla-segments. Fruit unknown.— Central Madagascar, in the 
province of Imerina, Dr. Lyall 225! 
DANAIS MICROCARPA, n. Sp. 
Glabra, ramulis teretibus, folis oppositis petiolatis. obovato-oblongis 
acutis, floribus in panic» as amplas terminales ramulis corymbosis dispo- 
sitis, pedicellis fructui sequilongis, calycis dentibus lanceolatis tubo cam- 
panulato zquilongis, fructu minuto glabro globoso. : 
A climbing shrub, glabrous in all its parts, with slender tereto 
branchlets. Stipules minute, deltoid. Leaves distinctly petioled, 
moderately firm in texture, bright green and glabrous on both 
surfaces, 1-2 in. long, deltoid at the base. Flowers in ample 
oblong-deltoid terminal panicles with corymbose branches ; pedi- 
cels 4-1 line long; bracts minute, deltoid. Flower-calyx yz in. 
long; lanceolate teeth as long as the campanulate tube. Corolla 
and stamens not seen. Capsule glabrous, crustaceous, depresso- 
