FLORA OF MADAGASCAR. 165 
A forest shrub 10 or 12 feet high, with slender terete densely 
pilose branchlets. Leaves opposite, with a pilose petiole 1-1 in. 
long, and an ovate rigid dark green blade 1-12 in. long, rounded 
at the base, nearly glabrous above, pilose especially on the ribs 
beneath. Flowers in a terminal panicle, with distant few-flowered 
erecto-patent corymbose densely pilose branches. Flower-calyx 
about +1; in. long, densely pilose. Corolla and stamens not seen. 
Fruit black, hard, globose, 4-1 in, in diam.—Forest of Andranga- 
loaka, Dr. Parker! Top of Ifody mountain, Baron 1375! 
PENTAS MUSSJENDOIDES, N. sp. 
Fruticosa, fusco-pubescens, stipulis brevibus fimbriatis, foliis petiolatis 
oblongo-lanceolatis membranaceis a: medio ad apicem et basin angustatis, 
floribus in cymas terminales corymbosas vel racemosas aggregatis, pedicellis 
brevissimis vel sub. nullis, fructu infundibulari coriaceo 10-costato, calycis 
dentibus 4 parvis lanceolatis, quinto magno foliaceo oblanceolato petiolato, 
corollx pilos: tubo cylindrico segmentis parvis lanceolatis. 
An erect shrub or small tree, 10 or 15 feet high, with slender 
terete branchlets, clothed with short deciduous brown pubes- 
cence. Stipules short, fimbriated, with pubescent setaceous 
segments. Leaves distinctly petioled, membranous, 4-5 in. long, 
1-14 in. broad at the middle, acute or acuminate, narrowed to the 
base, finely brown-pubescent, with numerous parallel arcuate 
ascending main veins. Flowers in an ample terminal panicle, 
with short or elongated cymose branches. Corolla with a pilose 
cylindrical tube an inch long, and 5 or rarely 6 small lanceolate 
segments. Stamens sessile near the top of the corolla-tube. 
Capsule infundibuliform, coriaccous, 3 in. long, narrowed gra- 
dually to the base, with 10 distinct subequal ribs. Calyx-teeth 
4 small lanceolate unequal, the fifth membranous, oblanceolate, 
obtuse, distinctly petioled, 7-1 in. long, greenish-yellow with 
green veins.—Central Madagascar, gathered long ago by Lyall 
(195), and now rediscovered by Baron (1059 and 1921) and 
Parker in the forest of Andrangaloaka. 
UROPHYLLUM LxarLLIT, n. sp. 
Arborea, ramulis obscure hispidis, stipulis lanceolatis, foliis oppositis 
breviter petiolatis oblongo-lanceolatis acuminatis utrinque viridibus gla- 
bris, floribus in cymas paucifloras axillares dispositis, pedicellis brevibus, 
calycis dentibus lanceolatis tubo campanulato aquilongis, corolla tubo 
cylindrico intus piloso, dentibus deltoideis, staminibus inclusis, fructu 
globoso nigro 4-loculari magnitudine pisi. 
