26 THE PLANTS OF MILANJI, NYASA-LAND, 
MASCARENHASIA VARIEGATA, Britten & Rendle, sp.n. (Plate VI. figs. 1-3.) Frutex 
glaber, ramosus ; foliis breviter petiolatis, ovalibus vel ovali-oblongis, subacuminatis 
vel obtusiusculis, rigide coriaceis, sepe variegatis ; floribus pedicellatis, interdum 
terminalibus et solitariis, interdum paucis in stirpibus brevibus axillaribus vel 
terminalibus fasciculatis ; calycis lobis ovatis, intus glanduliferis; coroll hyper- 
crateriformis tubo supra medium, ad antherarum situm, dilatato, campanuliformi, 
lobis patentibus late ovatis, apice acuminatis, intus papillosis; antheris sagittatis, 
filamentis brevissimis; disci squamis planis, crassis, 4 per paria connatis, quinta 
libera, carpella distineta superantibus ; carpellorum parte superiore et stylo filiformi 
pilis fulvis indutis. 
The shoots are hard and woody; the leaves vary in size from 31 to 51 in. long, and 3 to 
13 in. broad, the larger ones are markedly variegated. The flowers are terminal and 
solitary, or 4-6 are crowded on a short terminal or axillary shoot, giving the appearance 
of an umbel; the pedicel of the open flower is about + in. long. The calyx is 1 line 
long, and bears, inside at the base of the lobe, a ring of short, closely set, blunt, tooth-like 
glands. The corolla-tube is 5 lines long, and tapers slightly from below upwards to the 
middle, where it becomes dilated and campanulate; at the dilated portion, which 
represents the insertion of the stamens, it is 13 lines in diameter. The spreading corolla- 
lobes are 33 lines long by 23 broad, and have a marked acuminate apex. The narrow 
sagittate anthers are 1j lines long. A divergence from the generic diagnosis in the 
‘Genera Plantarum’ occurs in the fact that the disk-scales overtop the ovary. The latter 
is covered on the upper half with stiff yellowish hairs, and similar but shorter hairs clothe 
the thin style. Fruit not seen. | 
Agrees in many points with Baker's description of JM. micrantha, but the leaves are 
much larger and narrower in proportion ; the flowers are also larger and have a much 
longer tube, that of M. micrantha being only twice the length of the calyx, which is 1 line 
long; the limb of M. micrantha is only 4 in. across, that of M. variegata nearly $ in. 
By the discovery of the present species, the genus Mascarenhasia, hitherto known 
only from Madagascar, is extended to the mainland. 
Hab. Milanji, 6000 ft., Oct. No. 108. 
Ectapiopsis WeELwWITscHIT, Baill. in Bull. Soc. Linn. Paris, ii. p. 803. 
Hab. Milanji. No. 134. 
SCHIZOGLOSSUM Nyasa, Britten & Rendle, sp. n. Suffrutex caule erecto, simplici, pubes- 
=- cente; foliis sessilibus, cuneatis vel cuneato-oblongis, apice mucronulatis, utrinque 
glabris vel basi et marginibus revolutis, puberulis; inflorescentia terminali umbellis 
pluribus lateralibus aucta; bracteis subulatis, puberulis, quam florum pedicelli 
puberuli brevioribus; sepalis subulatis, sparse puberulis; petalis ovato-oblongis, 
= multinerviis, dorso glabris, intus papillosis; coronz lobis gynostegium superan- 
. ibus planis, trilobatis, medio incrassatis, geminis appendiculis tenuibus suffultis ; 
