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considerations forbid that view : firstly, the absence of a gland alter- 

 nating with each staminal phalanx ; secondly, the large number of 

 stamens to the phalanx ; thirdly, the wholly inferior ovary with its 

 flat roof lined by the multiglandular disk and in consequence the 

 epigynous petals and androecium ; lastly, the undivided style. 



In placing this plant in FlacoiirtiacecB one cannot help feeling 

 the incongruity of including it in the same " natural " order or family 

 with Cochlospermum &c. Certainly the FlacourtiacecB as understood 

 in the *' Pflanzenfamilien " make up a most heterogeneous group, and 

 one far from an improvement on older classifications. 



Vaughania, Legtiminosarum e tribu Qalegearum genus novum. 

 Calyx parvus latusque, subbilabiatus, labio antico 3-dentato postico 

 2-dentato. Vexillum inter angustiora, verisimiliter suberectum, 

 ungue brevissirao fultum, intus nudum ; alai breviter unguiculatae, 

 inter se necnon a carina liberse ; carina ampla, cymbiformis, sursum 

 incurva, apice obtusa. Stamen vexillare omnino liberum ; filamenta 

 filiformia ; antherse inter se similes. Ovariam breviter stipitatum, 

 septis destitutum, pluriovulatum ; stylus intlexus, complanatus, glaber. 



Legumen . Verisimiliter frutex ramosus. Folia e foliolum 



latum constantia petiolo late alato insidens. Stipulse parvula3. 

 Flores in racemos axillares maxime abbreviatos bracteis arete imbri- 

 catis ])rimo onustos verisimiliterque ex ramis jam foliis orbis oriundos 

 dispositi. 



Vaughania dionaeaBfolia, sp. unica. Ramis sat validis glabris ; 

 foliolo suborbiculari apice rotundatissimo ipso mucronato integro 

 coriaceo puberulo petiolo quam foliolum longiori obovato-oblongo 

 apice. maxime rotundato ipso ope stipitis abbreviati foliolo conjuncto 

 inferne gradatim attenuate ima basi tereti puberulo ; infloresceiitKE 

 axi pubescente ; bracteis ovatis obtusis vel obtuse acutis dorso cari- 

 natis coriaceis vix omnino glabris ; calycis pubescentis dentibus 

 posticis quam antici latioribus ; corolla vexillo oblongo-ovato apice 

 rotundato margine crispulo donata alis quam carina jmuUo longiori- 

 bus ; ovario lineari incurvo glabro. 



Madagascar; J. Vaiiglian Thompson. 



Kami 3-5 mm. crass., cortice pallido cincti. Foliolum l*5-l*7x 

 1-6-2 cm. ; costa media jmg. sup. impressa, pag. inf. optime pro- 

 minens ; costse laterales utrinque 8-10, tenene ; petiolus 3-3 "3 cm. 

 long., apicem versus 1-1*5 cm, lat., uti foliolum in sicco supra 

 brunneo-subtus griseo-viridis ; hujus continuatio gracilis 1 mm. long. 

 Alabastra, floribus nondum adspectis, 5-Q X 2-5-3 mm. Inflorescentise 

 axis usque ad 1 cm. long. Pedicelli plerique 1-3 mm. long., pubes- 

 centes. Bractese 3 X 2*5 mm. Vexillum 10 X 0*5 mm. ; alie spathu- 

 lato-oblongse, margine crispulse, 10 mm. long. ; carina 8 mm. long., 

 superne 4 mm. lat. Filamentorum pars libei-a 3-4 mm. long. ; 

 antherse oblong*, '45 mm. long. Ovarii stipes circa 1 mm. long. ; 

 ovarlu n 5 X "S-'TS mm. ; stylus 6-5 mm. long. Ovula circiter 12. 



This is a curious plant of which no description seems to have been 

 hitherto published. The genus would a])pear to be a member of the 

 subtribe Tcplirosie(E and to come \\e?^Y 3Iilletfia,iY0Y(\ which it differs 

 in the peculiar foliage, the inflorescence, and the relativeh' narrow 

 vexillum among other characters. The foliage suggests Desmodium 



