286 ON THE FLORA OF MADAGASCAR. 
A small spreading shrub about a foot high, with numerous 
branches chiefly from the base, puberulous when young, becoming 
somewhat seabrid in age. Leaves crowded, especially near base 
of branches, subsessile, narrowly linear, subobtuse, entire, à 
little wrinkled in drying, 1-3 lin. long. Spikes numerous, on 
short lateral branchlets terminating the upper half of the branches, 
2-3 lin. long when in flower, but growing out to 6 lin. in fruit. 
Flowers numerous, } lin. long. Bracts equalling flowers. Calyx 
} lin. long, the two lateral lobes developed, the posterior lobe 
smaller, often suppressed. Corolla-tube stout, 1 lin. long, nearly 
4 times exceeding the minute lobes. Fruit j lin. long, sepa- 
rating into2 nutlets when mature.— Central Madagascar, Baron 
1986! Antananarivo, Parker! Ambohimanga, Parker! Dr. 
Parker says, * Small herbs growing in open ground, in grass, on 
banks, &e." Also gathered long ago by Bojer! in the same 
locality, and quite recently by the Rev. Deans Cowan. Closely 
allied to S. lacunosa, Klotzsch, from Mozambique, and 1S. mi- 
crantha, Choisy, from the Cape of Good Hope, the latter place the 
beadquarters of the genus. S. muralis is interesting as being 
the only known representative of the genus occurring off the 
continent of Africa.—R. A. Rolfe. 
DESCRIPTION OF THE PLATES. 
Prats XXIV. 
A. Schismatoclada psychotrioides, n. sp. 1. Portion of the plant in flower. 
2. Calyx and pistil. 3. Corolla laid open. 4. Ovary. 5. Fruit. 
6. Seed. 7. Embryo. 
B. Schismatoclada, sp. 8. Portion of the plant in fruit. 
PrarE XXV. 
Tetraspidium laxiflorum, n.sp. 1. Plant in flower (bent). 2. Calyx and pistil. 
3. Corolla laid open. 4. Anther. 5. Ovary. 
Prare XXVI. 
Monachochlamys flagellaris, n. sp. 1. Plant in flower. 2. Bract. 3. Calyx 
and pistil. 4. Base of corolla laid open. 5. Anther. 6. Ovary. 
7. Transverse section of the ovary. 
PrarE XXVII. 
Forsythiopsis Baroni, n. sp. 1. Portion of a plant in flower. 2. Calyx and 
pistil. 3. Base of corolla laid open. 4. Front and back views of an 
anther. 5. Ovary. 6. Longitudinal section of the ovary. 
