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2-1 ft. long, distinctly flattened and winged from the very base, 
the peduncle furnished with 1-2 sheathing leaves with a short 
free lamina.  Racemes sometimes simple with only a couple of 
nodes, in luxuriant plants 4—5 in. long, with 1 or 2 short branches 
and a single terminal node. Nodes 2-8-flowered, sometimes 
viviparous. Bracts ovate, brownish, 4nembranous, not more than 
is-g in. long. Flowers with a pedicel as long as the bract, a 
clavate ovary 1 in. long, and a limb of blue oblanceolate segments 
scarcely longer than the ovary. Capsule black, glabrous, 4 in. 
long, with very numerous small turgid superposed seeds in each 
cell_—Andrangaloaka, along sides of paths and in more open 
parts of forest, Dr. Parker! (one specimen with a tuft of disti- 
chous leaves 4—5 in. long from one of the lower nodes of 
the raceme). Central Madagascar, Baron 480! 1092! 1777! 
Gathered also by the Rev. Deans Cowan. 
ARISTEA ANGUSTIFOLIA, n. sp. 
Glabra, dense czespitosa, foliis basalibus circiter 3 lineari-subulatis 
rigidis, racemo simplici laxissimo nodis 2-3-floris rhachi compressa haud 
alata, bracteis parvis ovatis membranaceis, fructu oblongo. 
A densely cæspitose perennial herb, glabrous in all its parts, with 
densely tufted wiry root-fibres 3—4 in. long. Basal leaves about 
three to a flower-stem, a foot long, not more than 4 line broad, 
stiffly erect, with both faces rather convex.  Peduncle (exclusive 
of raceme) rather longer than the leaves, slender, subterete, with 
about 4 sheathing leaves, the lowest with a long free lamina, 
that of the upper ones very short. Raceme simple, half a foot 
long, with a slightly compressed slender axis, and 5-6 nodes 
bearing 2-3 flowers each. Bracts ovate or oblong, quite mem- 
branous, 1-1 in. long. Ovary oblong, with a very short pedicel, 
not seen fully developed. Perianth bright blue, $ in. long. 
Stamens not half as long as the perianth.—Central Madagascar, 
Baron 1805! 
AnisTEA KITCHINGII, n. sp. 
Glabra, czespitosa, foliis basalibus 6-10 rigidis linearibus 13-2-pedalibus 
multinervatis, racemo elongato composito, rhachi tereti, nodis 5-6-floris, 
bracteis parvis ovatis membranaceis, fructu oblongo pedicellato. 
Densely tufted, with copious slender wiry root-fibres. Leaves 
erect, very rigid in texture, 13-2 ft. long, with very numerous 
close distinct ribs. Peduncle about 2 ft. long below the inflo- 
rescence, terete, with about 4 sheathing leaves, the lower with a 
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