214 MR. J. G. BAKER ON THE 
A shrub, with very slender sarmentose branches, clothed with 
stellate pubescence and armed with copious broad-based brown 
prickles 3-1 in. long. Leaves alternate, distinctly petioled, 14- 
in. long, #-1 in. broad, very unequal at the base, thin in texture, 
green and rough with stellate hairs above, densely matted with 
brownish-white stellate pubescence beneath. Flowers solitary, 
from the axils of the leaveson slender ascending pedicels about 3 in. 
long. Calyx i in. long, with a densely pilose cuneate tube and 
linear-subulate teeth. Corolla ? in. long, pilose on the outside, 
with 4 segments as long as the tube. Anthers 4 in. long, with 
very short filaments. Fruit unknown.—Forest of Alamazaotra, 
Baron 1482! A near ally of the East-Asian S. trilobatum, 
Linn.; Dunal in DC. Prodr. xiii. 287. 
IHTALLERIA TETRAGONA, n. sp. 
Fruticosa, glabra, ramulis tetragonis, foliis oppositis breviter petiolatis 
parvis ovatis serratis subcoriaceis, floribus axillaribus 1-2nis pedicellis 
gracillimis, calycis late campanulati dentibus semiorbicularibus, coroll: 
rubree infundibularis dentibus brevissimis quadratis, staminibus exsertis. 
A much-branched erect shrub, glabrous in all its parts, with 
aeutely tetragonous slender tough green stems, distinctly con- 
stricted at each node. Leaves opposite, shortly petioled, as- 
cending, ovate, about 3 in. long, thick and rigid in texture, 
brightly green, minutely serrated. Flowers from the axils of the 
leaves, on very slender simple or forked pedicels about 4 in. long. 
Calyx å in. long, with 5 half-orbicular segments shorter than the 
tube. Corolla bright red, ł in. long, nearly oblong in the upper 
part, narrowed to a cylindrical base. Anthers 4, minute, orbi- 
cular, exserted. Style very slender, 2 in. long.— Central Mada- 
gascar, gathered long ago by Bojer, and now rediscovered by 
Baron 1880! This is the Madagascar species alluded to in Gen. 
Plant. vol. ii. p. 936. It is a very near ally of the Cape H. ellip- 
tica, L. 
ALECTRA PEDICULARIOIDES, n. sp. 
A. caule brevi erecto ramosissimo, ramulis pilosis, foliis parvis sessilibus 
oppositis ovatis, pedicellis solitariis axillaribus elongatis ascendentibus, 
calycis pilosi tubo oblongo 10-costato dentibus deltoideis, corolle tubo 
infundibulari segmentis oblongis, autheris parvis oblongis dorso dense 
barbatis basi mucronatis, fructu magno orbiculari nigro glabro. 
A parasitic perennial herb, turning entirely black when dried, 
with ezspitose erect much-branched slender finely pilose stems 
