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numerous brown, glabrous, triquetrous seeds in each. — Open 

 ground in the province of Imerina, Dr. Parker! A near ally of 

 the last species. 



Hibiscus sten'ophyllus, sp. n. — A (perennial?) herb 2 feet 

 high, with slender terete shortly pilose long branches. Stipules 

 minute, deciduous. Leaves deltoid in general outline, 2-3 in. long 

 and broad, deeply palmately 5-lobed, the two lower divisions small, 

 the three others long, lanceolate, acuminate, irregularly dentate, 

 green and pilose on both surfaces. Flowers solitary in the axils of 

 the leaves ; peduncles 1-1^- in. long. Epicalyx none. Calyx 

 pilose, ^ in. long ; segments lanceolate, twice as long as the cam- 

 panulate tube. Petals white, twice as long as the calyx. Stamens 

 mostly low down on the column, which is twice as long as the 

 calyx. Fruit small, ovoid, pilose, 5 -celled. Seeds few in a cell, 

 hairy. — Low ground in the Betsileo country, flowering in February, 

 Baron 266 ! 



Dombeija platanifolia , Bojer in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 2, xviii. 190. — 

 Forests of the province of Imerina, Dr. Parker! Native name, 

 Halampona. 



DoMBEYA MODESTA, sp. u. — A slirub, witli slcudcr dark brown 

 terete branchlets, clothed only near the tip with stellate pube- 

 scence. Petiole f- 1 in. long ; blade oblong, entire, deltoid at the 

 tip, rounded at the base, 1^-2 in. long, minutely dentate, 

 moderately firm in texture, green and glabrous above, paler and 

 with thin stellate pubescence beneath. Flowers numerous, in lax 

 cymes from near the tip of the branches ; pedicels curved, slender, 

 densely pubescent, 1-4 times as long as the calyx ; bracts linear, 

 very minute. Calyx ^— |- in. long; tube very short; segments 

 lanceolate- deltoid. Petals obovate-cuneate, half as long again as 

 the calyx, red, marcescent, persistent. Staminodes ligulate, half as 

 long as the petals, reachmg to the summit of the style. — Betsileo 

 land in the open country, flowering in April and May, Baron 324 ! 

 Allied to D. elliptica, Bojer. About fifteen species of this genus 

 are now known in Madagascar. 



Grewia grandifloea, sp. n. — A small tree or tall shrub, with 

 slender terete brown glabrous lenticellate branchlets. Petiole \ in. 

 long; blade oblong-lanceolate, 2-3 in. long, |-f in. broad, acute, 

 rather rounded at the base, closely denticulate, moderately firm in 

 texture, green and glabrous on the upper surface, paler with a 

 little stellate pubescence beneath. Flowers 2-3 together at the 

 tip of the branchlets on very short pilose pedicels. Sepals 

 coriaceous, lanceolate, reflexing, f-^ in. long, scabrous on the 

 back. Petals white, oblong-unguiculate, more than half as long as 

 the sepals. Stamens about ^ in. long. Ovary densely pilose, 

 with a long style and large capitate stigma. Fruit not seen. — 

 Woods of Western Betsileo, flowering in December and January, 

 Baron 108 ! Near G. stenophylla, Bojer m Proc. Verb. Soc. Nat. 

 Hist. Maur. 1842-1846, 27. 



Grewia trinervata, sp. n. — A tree with slender branchlets, 

 clothed with short dull brown pubescence. Petiole pilose, under \ 

 in. long ; blade obovate, obtuse, 1-1-^ in. long, cuneate at the base, 



