48 FLORA OF CENTRAL MADAGASCAR. 



the two promiuent side veins running from the base of the midrib 

 to a short distance of the summit of the leaf ; texture firm ; upper 

 surface bright green and calvate ; lower paler, with thin brown 

 stellate pubescence. Flowers 4-8 together in copious peduncled 

 lateral cymes; pedicels as long as the calyx or a little longer. 

 Sepals lanceolate, | in. long, grey and scabrous on the outside. 

 Petals lanceolate, half as long as the sepals. Stamens as long as 

 the petals. Style ^ in. long. Fruit not seen. — Woods of Eastern 

 Imerina, Parker I Baron 356 ! Flowers in October. Allied to 

 the Cape and Tropical African G. occidentalism L. 



Grewia calvata, sp. n. — A tall shrub, with slender terete 

 nearly glabrous branchlets. Petiole ^-^ in. long; blade ovate, 

 acute, rounded at the base, irregularly crenate, 1^3 in. long, green 

 and finally nearly glabrous on both surfaces, thin but firm in 

 textm-e. Flowers about 3 together in peduncled umbellate lateral 

 cymes ; pedicels finally ^ in. long. Sepals lanceolate, \ in. long, 

 scabrous on the back, with copious black glands mixed with the 

 stellate pubescence. Petals oblanceolate, more than half as long 

 as the sepals, yellowish. Stamens as long as the petals. Fruit a 

 small depresso-globose di'upe, with 3-4 angles and as many pyrenes, 

 with one seed in each. — Low ground in Western Betsileo, flowering 

 in December, Baron 68 ! Native name, Zorotaty. 



Erythrijoxijluin myrtoides, Bojer in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 2, xviii. 

 185. — Forests of Imerina, Parker 119 ! Baron 353 ! Native names, 

 Hazomainty (black wood) and Hazomhy (iron wood), and used in 

 building. — Forests of the Tanala country. Baron 314 ! Native 

 name, Hazombiby. 



EvoDL\ madagascariensis, sp. n. — A shrub, about 6 feet high, 

 with angled branchlets. Leaves opposite, simple ; petiole about -| 

 in. long ; blade oblong-lanceolate, entire, rigidly coiiaceous, 

 3-4 in. long, 1-1:^ in. broad, acute, cuneate at the base, dark green 

 and glabrous above, pale brown, with copious glands, and slender 

 erecto-patent main veins anastomosing within the margin. 

 Flowers in dense axillary peduncled panicles, about as long as the 

 leaves ; pedicels very short. Sei^als 4, minute, ovate. Petals 4, 

 oblong white, gland-dotted, — in. long. Stamens 4, half as long 

 as the petals ; anther as long as the flattened filaments. Pistil as 

 long as the petals ; ovary ovoid, j)ilose, 4-celled ; style short, 

 cylindi'ical ; stigma 4-lobed. Fruit not seen. — Hillside 3 miles 

 from Alarobia on the road to Ankafina, Baroji 17. Flowers in 

 November. Gathered pre\dously by Bojer in the Chasak 

 Mountains. 



LiNUM (LinaHtrum) betsiliense, sp. n. — A shrub, about 3 feet 

 high, with long thick woody glabrous densely leafy branches. 

 Leaves alternate, sessile, ascending, lanceolate, acute, about \ in. 

 long, furnished with a pair of stipulary glands, firm in texture, 

 glabrous, 3-nerved. Flowers in dense terminal cymes ; bracts 

 large, linear, persistent ; pedicels short. Sepals lanceolate, or 

 ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, serrulate, ^-\ in. long. Petals 

 obovate, pale yellow, 3-nerved, twice as long as the sepals, free to 

 the base. Stamens 5 ; filaments filiform, dilated at the base, 



