170 MR. J. G. BAKER ON THE 
A tree or shrub, with slender terete branchlets densely clothed 
with short dark-brown hairs. Stipules small, deltoid, persistent. 
Leaves distinctly petioled, 3-4 in. long, 14-2 in. broad, broadly 
obtuse with a minute cusp, narrowed gradually from the middle 
to the base, moderately firm in texture, dark green and glabrous 
above, finely brown-pubescent beneath especially on the distinct 
arcuate ascending parallel 8-10-jugate main veins. Flowers in 
small lax terminal panicles with corymbose branches, clothed 
with dense short brown hairs. Calyx lin. long. Corolla 4 in. 
long, densely clothed outside with brown hairs; tube as long as 
the segments, hairy also inside. Stamens shorter than the seg- 
ments, with short filaments and linear-oblong anthers. Fruit 
subglobose, 4. in. long, pilose, with 10 distinct vertical ribs, the 
two bony pyrenes deeply grooved both on back and face.—Cen- 
tral Madagascar, Baron! (not numbered). 
HYDROPHYLAX MADAGASCARIENSIS, Willd.; DO. Prod. iv. 576. 
H. foliis ad apices ramorum confertis ovato-lanceolatis, floribus solitariis 
terminalibus sessilibus, calycis tubo infundibulari dentibus deltoideis, 
corolla tubo subcylindrico, segmentis lanceolatis quam tubus brevioribus. 
A glabrous perennial, with a wide-trailing quadrangular stem, 
sending out tufts of root-fibres downwards and short erect simple 
or branched stems upwards from the nodes. Leaves spaced on 
the lower part, crowded in opposite pairs towards the tip of the 
branches, spreading, ovate-lanceolate, acute, 4—4 in. long, connate 
with the stipules into a sheathing cup at the base. Flowers soli- 
tary, sessile in the axil of the top pair of leaves. Calyx minute, 
with an infundibuliform tube and 4 deltoid teeth. Corolla lilac, 
with a funnel-shaped tube } in. long and 4 lanceolate segments. 
Stamens 4, nearly sessile at the pilose throat of the corolla-tube 
anthers linear. Style slender, much exserted from the tube, shortly 
bifid. Fruit not seen.—East coast, close to the sea on the sandy 
shore, Baron 1395! Gathered also by Bojer in sandy ground in 
the interior in the province of Imerina. 
OTIOPHORA PAUCIFLORA, n. sp. 
Herbacea, perennis, caulibus pilosis, stipulis fimbriatis, foliis oppositis 
ovatis aeutis membranaceis glabris, floribus sessilibus terminalibus, calycis 
tubo piloso, dentibus inzequalibus 1-2 magnis foliaceis, corolla tubo elon- 
gato filiformi, segmentis lanceolatis quam tubus triplo brevioribus, stamini- 
bus coroll; segmentis zquilongis, stylo profunde bifido, fructu oblongo. 
A much-branched perennial herb, with slender pilose stems 
