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vel oblongo-lanceolatis acutis rigide coriaceis venulis verticalibus subtilibus 
exsculptis pereursis, floribus 1-3 axillaribus glomeratis, singulis bracteolis 
2 minutis connatis suffultis, fructu parvo globoso levi pedicellato, stylo 
producto gracili. 
A much-branched shrub, glabrous in all its parts, with slender 
angled sulcate green woody branchlets. Leaves opposite, 1-14 
in. long, 1—2 in. broad at the middle, narrowed gradually to both 
ends, rigid in texture, dull green on both sides, with very fine 
vertical anastomosing raised veiulets like Exocarpus or Xylo- 
phylla. Flowers 1-3 in the axils of the leaves, each enclosed in 
a minute green cupule formed by a pair of connate bracteoles. 
Ovary small, globose, distinctly pedicellate, tipped by a distinct 
slender style, with a capitate stigma, the dark brown epicarp 
wrinkled when dry, but not papillose.—Madagasear, Pervillé 
719! anda variety with smaller leaves and closer branches from 
the province of Ambongo, Pervillé 616! 
VISCUM PENTANTHUM, D. sp. 
Glabrum, ramulis teretibus multisulcatis, foliis petiolatis ovatis acumi- 
natis rigide subcoriaceis obscure triplinerviis, floribus in umbellas axillares 
peduneulatas 4—-5-floras basi cupulatas dispositis, pedicellis brevibus, ovario 
oblongo levi, sepalis 4 deltoideis. 
Branches green, slender, woody, multisuleate. Leaves in 
opposite pairs, shortly petioled, 2-3 in. long, 1-1j in. broad, 
deltoid at the base, narrowed into a long acute point, moderately 
firm and thick in texture, with three indistinct nerves from the 
base. Umbels springing from the axils of all the leaves on a 
short erecto-patent peduncle, the whole umbel springing from a 
patelleform cupule formed from two connate bracteoles, not 
with a cupule to each flower as in the other species. Ovary 
oblong, shortly pedicellate, surmounted by 4 small deltoid conni- 
vent segments. Fruit not seen.—Island of Marossi, Antongil 
Bay, Bojer! A near ally of V. triflorum, DC. 
Exocarpus (S PHYLLODANTHOS) XYLOPHYLLOIDES, n. sp.— 
Xylophylla ensifolia, Bojer MSS. 
There can be little doubt, although none of the specimens 
show either flower or fruit, that a plant of which we have now 
four sheets at Kew, is a phyllocladioid Zrocarpus closely allied 
to the well-known Æ. phyllanthoides, Endl., of Norfolk Island, 
and a plant from the Malay isles (E. ceramica, A. DC. Prod. 
xiv. 691), founded on a figure of Rumphius. The lower part of 
