166 MR. J. d. BAKER ON THE 
A much-branched small erect tree, 12-20 feet high, with 
slender terete obscurely hispid branchlets. Stipules lanceolate, 
entire, persistent. Leaves shortly petioled, 3-4 in. long, an inch 
broad, acuminate, moderately firm in texture, bright green and 
glabrous on both surfaces, with much-raised 6-8-jugate arcuate- 
ascending main veins. Flowers few together in copious small 
nearly sessile axillary cymes. Flower-calyx 4 in. long ; teeth 5, 
lanceolate. Corolla-tube 4 in. long, hairy all down inside; seg- 
ments half as long as the tube. Stamens 5, inserted above the 
middle of the corolla-tube; filaments filiform, as long as the 
oblong anthers. Style as long as the corolla-tube, simple. Fruit 
glabrous, globose, with numerous scarlet seeds in each of the four 
cells.—Forests of the province of Imerina, gathered long ago by 
Bojer and Lyall (343), and now rediscovered by Dr. Parker and 
Mr. Baron (1039, 1049, 1250, 1527, 1649). 
MUSSJENDA TRICHOPHLEBIA, n. sp. 
M. ramulis apice pilosis, stipulis lanceolatis vel deltoideis, foliis oppositis 
petiolatis obovato-oblongis acutis facie obscure pilosis dorso ad venas 
dense pilosis, floribus dense corymboso-paniculatis, pedicellis brevibus, 
bracteis lanceolatis, calycis pilosi dentibus lanceolatis tubo clavato aequi- 
longis, coroll tubo cylindrico dense piloso bipollicari, segmentis lanceo- 
latis quam tubus quadruplo brevioribus, fructu oblongo-clavato calvato. 
An erect tree, with pilose branchlets. Stipules persistent, 
pilose, lanceolate or deltoid. Leaves opposite, shortly petioled, 
obovate-oblong, acute, 2-8 in. long, narrowed to the base, green 
and obscurely pilose above, dull green and densely pilose espe- 
cially on the arcuate ascending 8-9-jugate parallel main veins 
beneath. Flowers in dense terminal corymbs, sessile or shortly 
pedicellate ; bracts lanceolate, persistent. Flower-calyx under 
3 in. long, densely silky ; teeth lanceolate, as long as the tube. 
Corolla whitish, densely silky on the outside, with a cylindrical 
tube 2 in. long and 5 lanceolate segments. Stamens inserted 
above the middle of the corolla-tube, included; anthers large, 
linear. Style densely pilose, with 2 lanceolate stigmatic lobes 
i5 in. long. Fruit clavate-oblong, glabrescent, under an inch 
long, crowned by the persistent calyx-teeth.— Forests of Central 
Madagascar, Baron 493!1764! A near ally of M. Landia and 
M. hymenopogonoides. 
MUSSJENDA VESTITA, D. sp. 
M. ramulis dense pilosis, stipulis parvis pilosis, foliis petiolatis oblongis 
