112 FLORA OF CENTRAL MADAGASCAR. 



12-15, about l-12tli in. long. Style finally J in. long. — Forests of 

 Tanala, Baron 295 ! Gathered before in Central Madagascar by 

 Bojer. A near neighbour of the Mauritian K. r/lomej-ata, Lam. 



Eugenia (Sijzijgium) condensata, n. sp. — A shrub, glabrous in all 

 its parts, with slender terete pale brown branchlets. Petiole ^-^ in. ; 

 blade oblong-lanceolate, acute, cuneate at the base, 1-1|- in. long, 

 rigid in texture, green on both surfaces, with close prominent 

 erecto-patent veins. Flowers in dense small sessile terminal 

 panicles wdth cymose branches ; pedicels 0. Calyx obconic, gla- 

 brous, coriaceous, brown-black, 1 lin. long and broad; teeth 

 obscure. Corolla very small, suborbicular, falling without ex- 

 panding. Stamens about 20, ^ in. long. Style as long as the 

 stamens. — Central Madagascar, Baron 237 ! Also a near ally of 

 E. (jlomerata, Lam. We have four allied species from Madagascar 

 already, gathered by Bojer, Meller, and Gerrard. 



Lacierstroemia mada(jascariensis, Baker. — Common in the Ibara 

 country, flowering in July at the same time as Woodfordia jiori- 

 hunda, which is also plentiful, Baron 261 ! 



Veprecella schizocarpa, n. sp. — An erect nearly glabrous 

 shrub, with only a little ferruginous pubescence on the young 

 branchlets, entirely without bristly hairs. Leaves long-stalked; 

 petiole 1-2 in. long ; blade ovate or oblong, acute, obscurely cor- 

 date, 3-4 in. long, denticulate, thin in texture and green on both 

 surfaces, 7-nerved, with distinct raised subparallel veins. Flowers 

 in lax deltoid terminal panicles with cymose branches ; flower- 

 pedicels as long as the calyx ; fruit-pedicels 2-3 times as long. 

 Calyx campanulate, finally ^-^ in. diam., ^ in. long, ferrugineo- 

 pilose in an early stage, subentire at the margin, furnished with 

 five distinct ribs. Petals obovate, reddish, ^ in. long. Stamens 

 10, as long as the petals ; filaments rather flattened, equalling the 

 anthers, the connective of which is prolonged into a distinct 

 posterior spur at the base. Capsule separating into five corky 

 valves, which are truncate at the apex, ^ in. broad, and the u^^per 

 half of which protrudes from the persistent calyx. — Li and near 

 forests in the Betsileo country, Baron 84 ! This is the first time 

 that the fruit of this genus, which is endemic in Madagascar, has 

 been obtained. The anthers are just like those of the species 

 figured by Naudin, Ann. Sc. Nat., series 3, xv. p. 313, tab. 15, 

 figs. 7 and 8. 



MoDEccA DENsiFLORA, 11. sp. — Stcms stout, woody, terete, gla- 

 brous, with a simple tendiil of firm texture ch'cinate at the tip 

 from every node, except those that bear the clusters of flowers. 

 Leaves not seen. Flowers in dense heads on short woody lateral 

 peduncles which do not end in a tendril, sessile in clusters on 

 raised tubercles. Female flowers only seen, reddish, 1^ in. long. 

 Calyx-tube subcylindrical in the lower half, dilated in the upper 

 half into a cup ; sepals 5, lanceolate, cucullate at the tip. Petals 

 5, oblong, inserted at the throat of the calyx- tube, rather shorter 

 than the calyx segments and more delicate in texture, minutely 

 fimbriated at the margin. Corona lining the campanulate part of 

 the calyx- tube as five fleshy processes, and showing at its throat 



