FLOKA OF CENTEAL MADAGASCAE. 67 



CONTKIBUTIONS TO THE FLOEA OF CENTRAL 

 MADAGASCAR. 



By J. G. Baker, F.R.S. 



(Continued from p. 51.) 



Baronia, gen. nov. Anacardiacearum. 



Flowers regular, hermaphrodite. Calyx of 5 minute ovate 

 deciduous sepals. Petals 5, oblong, obtuse, imbricated, three times 

 as long as the calyx, deciduous. Disk large, x3atell8eform, entire. 

 Stamens 5, alternate with the petals, very small, inserted outside 

 the disk ; filaments flattened; anthers subglobose. Ovary superior, 

 oblique, subglobose, 1-celled, glabrous ; styles 3, minute, falcate, 

 united at the base, with capitate stigmas. Fruit an oblique trans- 

 versely oblong 1 -seeded di'upe ; endocarp thin, brown, separated by 

 septa from the black crustaceous epicarp. Seed filling up the 

 fruit, with a thin membranous testa and thick fleshy cotyledons. 

 Allied to Buchanania and Loxostylis. 



Baronia Taratana, n. sp. — A tree 30 feet high, with thick terete 

 branches, the branchlets clothed upwards with short brown pube- 

 scence. Leaves simple, crowded, alternate; petiole 1-3 in. long; 

 blade linear-oblong, 6-7 in. long, under 2 m. broad, obtuse, entire, 

 deltoid at the base, subcoriaceous in texture, glabrous when 

 mature, penninerved, nearly white beneath, with a little brown 

 pubescence in an early stage. Flowers in lax ample terminal and 

 lateral peduncled panicles 4-6 in. long, with corymbose branches ; 

 rachises densely clothed with brown pubescence ; pedicels as long 

 as the flowers ; bract minute, deltoid, pilose. Petals l-12th in. long. 

 Fruit glabrous, i in. long. — In the forest at Ankafina, Betsileo- 

 land, flowering in November and December, Baron 22 ! Native 

 name, Taratana. 



Crotalaria cytisoides, Hilsenb. & Bojer. — Pod sessile, oblong, fin. 

 long, ^ in. broad, densely clothed with spreading dirty white per- 

 sistent pubescence. — Central Madagascar, Dr. Parker ! 



Crotalaria xanthoclada, Bojer ; Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. ii. 

 588. — Pod distinctly stalked, subcylindi-ical, glabrous, i-f in. 

 long, ^ in. broad, 7-8-seeded. — Imerina, Dr. Parker! Native 

 name, Laingokalana. 



Indigofera jJedimculata, Hilsenb. & Bojer MSS. — A shrub, with 

 slender virgate angled branchlets, thinly coated with adpressed 

 white haks. Leaves 2-4 in. long ; petiole short ; stipules seta- 

 ceous ; leaflets 13-21, opposite, petiolulate, lanceolate, J-|- in. 

 long, firm in texture, coated with short adpressed white bristly 

 hairs. Flowers in lax axillary long-peduncled racemes 2-3 in. 

 long; pedicels finally ^-^ in. long; bracts minute, deciduous. Calyx 

 l-12th in. long, with an oblique campanulate tube and deltoid or 

 lanceolate teeth. Corolla red-purple, i in. long, pilose. Pod 

 cylindrical, glabrescent, 1-1^ in. long, l-12th in. broad, many- 

 seeded. — Central Madagascar, Dr. Parker! Gathered before by 

 Hilsenberg & Bojer, and by Dr. Lyall. Group of TinctoricB, in 



