FLORA OF MADAGASCAR. 167 
acutis subcoriaceis facie viridibus hispidis dorso dense persistenter albido- 
tomentosis, floribus dense corymboso-paniculatis, pedicellis brevibus, 
calycis dense pilosi dentibus lanceolatis tubo wquilongis, corolla dense 
pilose segmentis oblongo-lanceolatis tubo cylindrico 3-4 plo brevioribus, 
fructu oblongo-clavato piloso. 
An erect tree, with slender terete woody branchlets, densely 
clothed with short spreading firm dark-brown hairs. Stipules 
tin. long. Leaves opposite, shortly petioled, 2-4 in. long, 11-2 
in. broad, entire, deltoid at the base, thick and firm in texture, 
green and scabrous with short bristly hairs above, densely matted 
with thick whitish tomentum beneath, with 10-12-jugate ascend- 
ing brown main veins. Flowers in a dense shortly peduncled 
terminal corymb. Calyx 1 in. long; segments lanceolate, acute. 
Corolla densely clothed with drab hairs on the outside; tube 
subcylindrical, an inch long; segments oblong-lanceolate, cuspi- 
date. Capsule subterete, densely pubescent, 3-3 in. long, full of 
very numerous minute small black seeds.—Woods of Betsileo- 
land, Kitching! Baron 55! This may possibly be the imperfectly 
described JL. discolor, Thouars, of which the native country is 
unknown. 
Alberta laurifolia, Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xviii. 271 (Baron 
2019), I find had been already described by Dr. Baillon (Adan- 
sonia, xii. 247) under the name of Alberta minor. 
PLECTRONIA DENSITLORA, D. Sp. 
Arborea, glabra, stipulis magnis coriaceis, foliis petiolatis magnis ob- 
longis coriaceis glabris venis primariis validis parallelis 6-8-jugis, floribus 
in eymas densas sessiles axillares umbellatas dispositis, pedicellis quam 
flos longioribus, calycis minuti tubo cuneato dentibus deltoideis, corolle 
segmentis oblongo-deltoidcis tubo æquilongis, antheris ad corolle faucem 
pilosam sessilibus. 
An erect tree, glabrous in all its parts, with terete branchlets. 
Stipules lanceolate, coriaceous, above 4 in. long. Leaves di- 
stinctly petioled, 6-8 in. long, 2-3 in. broad, subobtuse, rounded 
at the base, bright green and rather shining above, paler beneath, 
with 6-8 parallel pairs of strongly marked arcuate ascending 
main veins. Flowers in dense sessile axillary umbels; pedicels 
about jin.long. Flower-calyx 3 lin. in diam. Corolla j in. long, 
the oblong-lanceolate teeth equalling the tube. Anthers minute, 
oblong, inserted at the densely hairy throat of the corolla-tube. 
Fruit not seen.—Madagascar, Gerrard 61! 
