194 MR. J. G. BAKER ON THE 
minute linear-subulate sessile leaves. Panicle lax, about 3 in. 
long, with several centrifugal few-flowered erecto-patent branches, 
the end-flowers on short, the side ones on long pedicels, subtended 
by minute persistent linear bracts. Flower-ealyx $ in. long, 
with a campanulate tube and 5 erect Janceolate-acuminate teeth 
jh in. long. Corolla more than twice as long as the calyx-teeth, 
eut down nearly to the base into 5 lanceolate segments. Style 
nearly as long as the corolla, 3-lobed at the tip.— Central Mada- 
gascar, Baron 2146! A second Madagascar species of this Cape - 
genus. Mr. Baron has also lately gathered L. madagascariensis, 
A. DC. (1543), and Lobelia Hartlaubi of Buchenau (1380, 1487), 
and several times Dialypetalum of Bentham, a curious monotypic 
endemic Madagascar genus of Campanulacem. Wahlenbergia 
madagascariensis, A. DO. (Baron 1796 !), appears to be conspecific 
with the Cape W. oppositifolia. 
VACCINIUM EMIRNENSE, Hook. Te. t. 131. 
Mr. Baron has gathered this several times, 964, 1132, 1316, 
1460, slightly differing forms. Dr. Parker sends it under the native 
name of “ voakelonda.” V. Forbesii, Hook. Ic. t. 345, appears 
to be a mere form of the same species ; and probably the speci- 
mens were gathered by Forbes in Madagascar, and not in Mozam- 
bique. According to a note of Dr. Meller’s, it attains a height 
of 20 or 30 feet, and occurs not only in the interior but in the 
low country near the coast in the vicinity of Tamatave. Mr. 
Baron and Dr. Parker have also gathered V. secundiflorum, 
Hook. Ic. t. 134, several times; and Mr. Baron has lately (1850) 
regathered Bojer's V. fasciculatum, a dwarf species with small 
very rigid serrated lanceolate leaves. 
AGAURIA POLYPHYLLA, n. sp. 
A, ramulis puberulis, foliis confertis patulis subsessilibus rigide coriaceis 
cordato-oblongis acutis, racemis axillaribus folio subaquilongis, pedicellis 
brevissimis, calycis campanulati tubo brevissimo dentibus ovatis, corollz 
urceolat: segmentis deltoideis, fructu 5-valvi depresso-globoso. 
A. shrub, with woody branchlets, thinly matted with whitish 
tomentum. Leaves crowded, spreading, alternate, very rigid in 
texture, obscurely petioled, acute, slightly cordate at the base, 
1-14 in. long, green and glabrous above, thinly coated with 
whitish tomentum beneath. Racemes spreading, from the axils 
of a few of the upper leaves, 1-14 in. long, with an angled pilose 
rhachis, lanceolate membranous brown bracts, and very short 
pedicels. Calyx broadly campanulate, 4; in. in diam.; segments 
