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alternating with small linear staminodia ; anthers linear-oblong, 

 Ovary globose, 5-celled, with 2 ovules in a cell ; styles 5, filiform. 

 I" in. long. Capsule as long as the calyx. Seeds shining, pale 

 brown, nearly flat, l-12th in. long. — Hill in Western Betsileo, 

 flowering in January, Baro7id8\ Allied to L. africanuui , Jjinn. : 

 Bot. Mag. t. 403, a widely-spread Cape species. 



AsTEROPEL\ DENSiFLORA, sp. n. — A shrub 4-5 feet high, with 

 thick rough pale glabrous branchlets. Leaves subsessile, alternate, 

 exstipulate, oblanceolate, entire, obtuse, rigidly coriaceous, glabrous, 

 1-1|- in. long. Flowers in dense terminal panicles, with cymose 

 branches ; pedicels short, covered with minute red glands. Sepals 

 5, linear- oblong, rather spathulate, thick, rigid, glabrous, rather 

 accrescent, finally ^ in. long. Stamens 10, all perfect, hypogynous ; 

 filaments filiform, but monadelphous at the base. Ovary 3-celled ; 

 ovules several in each cell ; styles 3, sliort, falcate, connate in the 

 lower half. Fruit a subglobose capsule the size of a large pea, 

 with only one seed developed in each of the cells. On a bleak 

 mountain-top in Betsileo land, flowering in December and January, 

 Baron 40 ! Closely allied to ^4. imdtiflora, Thouars, Hist. t. 15. 



Imp ATI ENS Baroni, sp. n. — A much -branched succulent erect 

 glabrous annual herb, with dark red stems 12-18 in. long. Leaves 

 alternate, shortly petioled, lanceolate, 2-3 in. long, glanduloso- 

 denticulate, with pellucid red veins. Flowers 2-3 together in the 

 axils of the leaves on pedicels |— f in. long. Sepals 3, the two 

 upper obtuse, ^ in. long, the lower with an incurved cylindrical 

 spur f in. long. Corolla magenta-coloured, f in. long ; standard 

 \ in, long, broader than long ; wings deeply lobed, the upper lobe 

 oblique oblong, the lower orbicular. Capsules oblique oblong, 

 tubercled, about ^ in. long, narrowed to the base and apex. Seeds 

 about a dozen, ovoid, flattish, densely pilose, about l-12th in. long. 

 — Li wet places on hillsides in the Betsileo country, flowering in 

 December, Baron 31 ! Allied to the Seychelles species (I. Gorclonif 

 Home), but not nearly so showy in the flowers. 



OcHNA polycaepa, sp. n. — A small tree, with thick glabrous 

 rugose pale brown branchlets. Leaves crowded, obscurely petioled, 

 elliptical, obtuse, cuneate at the base, ^— | in. long, lucent, finely 

 inciso-crenate, with close anastomosing veins visible on both sur- 

 faces. Flowers few together in terminal cymes, which are hidden 

 by the leaves ; pedicels ^-i in. long. Sepals 5, broad oblong, 

 much imbricated, persistent, coriaceous, glabrous, ^ in. long. 

 Petals yellow, oblanceolate, a little longer than the sepals. 

 Stamens about 20, much shorter than the sepals. Styles about 

 10, filiform, l-12th in. long, joined only low down. — Central Mada- 

 gascar, probably in the Tanala country. Baron 217 ! 



Gymnosporia divaricata, sp. n. — A shrub, 7-8 feet high, gla- 

 brous in all its parts, with slender terete, pm-plish brown branchlets. 

 Spines slender, woody, pungent, erecto-patent, ^-f in. long. 

 Leaves alternate or fascicled at the nodes, shortly petioled, oblong, 

 2-3 in. long, obtuse, cuneate at the base, minutely inciso-crenate, 

 moderately firm in texture, green on both surfaces. Flowers in 

 copious lateral cymes 1-1| in. broad, on spreading very slender 



