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the oblong anthers. Fruit not scen.— Forests of Central Mada- 
gascar, Baron 1914! 2053! 
| HYMENOCNEMIS MADAGASCARIENSIS, Hook. Jil. 
This endemie genus, which was characterized for the first time 
by Sir J. D. Hooker in * Genera Plantarum’ from a single spe- 
cimen in an early stage, has been refound in many places by 
Dr. Parker and Mr. Baron : cf. the numbers of the latter collec- 
tion 366, 400, 1267, 1328, and 1350. 1t is a forest shrub 8 or 10 
feet high with a small dark-blue berry; and as the fruit proves 
to be superior, it will have to be transferred from Rubiacew to 
the neighbourhood of Gaertaera in Loganiacee. 
PSYCHOTRIA TERNIFOLIA, n. sp. 
Arborea, glabra, foliis ternatis breviter petiolatis. obovato-oblongis 
acutis, stipulis deltoideis l-euspidatis, floribus in paniculas densas corym- 
bosas dispositis bracteis minutis pedicellis brevissimis, calycis tubo campa- 
nulato dentibus minutis, coroll: glabra tubo cylindrico segmentis quam 
tubus paulo brevioribus, antheris magnis linearibus ad corolle faucem 
pilosam sessilibus, fructu levi ovoideo. 
A shrub or tree, glabrous in all its parts, with slender terete 
smooth woody branchlets. Leaves three in a whorl, shortly 
petioled, 21-3 in. long, 1-14 in. broad, very acute, narrowed gra- 
dually from the middle to the base, moderately firm in texture, 
green on both surfaces, with distinct areuate ascending main 
veins. Flowers in dense terminal panicles with corymbose 
branches ; bracts minute; pedicels very short. Calyx with a 
campanulate tube and 5 minute teeth. Corolla } in. long, with 
5 oblong-lanceolate segments rather shorter than the cylindrical 
tube. Anthers 5, about as long as the segments, ses soe at the 
densely hairy throat of the corolla-tube. Fruit ovoid, 1 in. long, 
2-celled, the seeds not grooved.—Central Mada Baron 
1955! We have above a dozen species of this genus from Central 
Madagasear, but only fully complete specimens of these two. 
Psycuorria (§ GRUMILEA) TRICHANTHA, n, sp. 
Arborea, ramulis dense breviter brunneo-pilosis, stipulis deltoideis, 
foliis oppositis breviter petiolatis obovatis obtusis minute cuspidatis facie 
glabris dorso pubescentibus, floribus corymboso-fasciculatis breviter pedi- 
cellatis, bracteis minutis caducis, calyeis tubo globoso segmentis minutis 
deltoideis, corollæ brunneo-pilos parvæ tubo cylindrico segmentis tubo 
æquilongis, staminibus ad corollze faucem insertis, fructu parvo orbiculari 
multisuleato. 
