68 FLORA OF CENTRAX, MADAGASCAR. 



which it is marked by its long peduncles, lax racemes, and narrow 

 leaflets. Upwards of a dozen species of Indu/ofera are now known 

 in Madagascar, about half of which are endemic. 



Indigofera stenosepala, n. sp. — A shrub, with slender terete 

 branchlets, densely clothed with short brown glandular hairs. 

 Leaves 1-1^ in. long ; petiole very short ; stipules setaceous ; 

 leaflets 11-15, opposite, oblong-lanceolate, cuspidate, petiolulate, 

 1-^ in. long, moderately firm in texture, green and obscurely 

 pilose above, nearly white beneath, with a thin coat of adpressed 

 bristly hairs. Flowers in dense axillary racemes, with peduncles 

 shorter than the leaves ; pedicels very short, clothed, like the 

 peduncles, with brown pubescence ; bracts minute, deciduous. 

 Calyx l-12th in. long, densely brown-pubescent; teeth linear- 

 setaceous, 3-4 times as long as the campanulate tube. Corolla 

 yellowish, half as long again as the calyx, densely pilose. Ovary 

 linear, silky, multiovulate. Pod not seen. — Central Madagascar, 

 Dr. Parker I Well marked in the group of many-leafleted Tinctorim 

 by its very long narrow calyx- segments. 



Tephrosia Lyallii, n. sp. — A perennial herb, with slender 

 terete branchlets, densely clothed with short spreading hairs. 

 Leaves simple, subsessile, lanceolate, 1-|— 2 in. long, ^-\ in. broad, 

 firm in texture, bright green on both surfaces, thinly brown-pilose 

 beneath, especially on the very ascending raised veins ; stipules 

 minute. Flowers in lax long-peduncled terminal racemes ; ]Dedicels 

 as long as the calyx ; bracts minute, linear. Calyx ^ in. long, 

 densely brown silky ; teeth about as long as the campanulate tube, 

 the upper deltoid, the lower lanceolate. Corolla red-purple, \ in. 

 long, pilose ; standard erect, orbicular. Pod linear, sessile, densely 

 pilo e many-seeded; style flattened,^ in. long. — Central Mada- 

 gascar, in grassy places, Dr. Parker! Gathered previously by Dr. 

 Lyall. We have specimens of three other Tephrosias from Mada- 

 gascar ; the cosmopolitan T. purpurea, Pers., of which T. crassa, 

 Bojer MS., is a maritime variety; Dalhenjia Barclayi, Hook. 

 Exot. Flora, t. 188, a near neighbour of the Indian and Mauritian 

 T. Hookeriana, H. & A. ; and 2\ seminuda, Bojer MS., an endemic 

 species near T. ptdchella, Hook, fil., with 5-7 -jugate narrow leaflets 

 white-silky beneath, very lax racemes, small flowers, linear-seta- 

 ceous calyx-teeth twice as long as the tube, a red corolla ^ in. long, 

 and a brown-silky recurved linear 10-12-seeded pod ; and Vatke 

 has just published a fourth species {T. Uutenberf/iana) in ' Keliquiae 

 Eutenbergianas.' 



MuNDULEA PAuciFLORA, u. sp. — A shrub, with woody angled 

 nearly glabrous branchlets. Leaves 1|— 2 in. long, nearly sessile ; 

 stipules minute, deltoid, deciduous; leaflets 10-1 5 -jugate, opposite, 

 petiolulate, oblanceolate, obtuse, with a distinct cusp, patent, f-1 in. 

 long, moderately firm in texture, strongly veined, obscurely silky, 

 green on botli surfaces. Flowers few, proceeding direct from near 

 the top of the woody branchlets, not racemed in the axils of their 

 leaves ; bracts rigid, lanceolate-deltoid ; pedicels brown-silky, 

 finally \-^s in. long. Calyx campanulate, brown -silky, ^-^ in. 

 long ; teetli minute, deltoid. Corolla reddish, f in. long, rather 



