138 FLORA OF CENTEAL MADAGASCAE. 



not seen. — Forests of Western Betsileo, Baron 150 ! Gathered 

 previously by Bojer in the province of Imerina. 



Muss.ENDA HYMENOPOGONOiDEs, n. sp. — A shrub or tree, with 

 bro^Ti obscurely hispid branchlets. Leaves opposite, shortly 

 petioled, oblanccolate-oblong, acute, cuneate at the base, 3-4 in. 

 long, moderately firm in texture, green on both surfaces, with a few 

 minute adpressed bristly hairs, mainly on the veins beneath ; side 

 veins fine, arcuate ; stipules minute, deciduous. Flowers in lax 

 terminal corymbs; pedicels ^-1 in., ascending, pilose; bracts 

 linear. Calyx-tube infundibuliform, pilose, ^ in. long ; segments 

 5, linear, rigid, equal, persistent, finally an inch long. Corolla- 

 tube nearly cylindrical, 18-21 lin. long, densely pilose externally 

 and inside at the throat; segments 5, lanceolate, i in. long. 

 Anthers linear, ^ in. long, sessile above the middle of the corolla- 

 tube. Fruit hard, clavate-oblong, glabrescent, above ^ in. long, 

 iudehiscent, coriaceous. — Forests of the Tanala country. Baron 

 313 ! Allied to the Mauritian M. Landia, Lam. 



Xematostijlis loranthoides, Hook. fil. — N. antlioplujlla, Baill. — 

 PsijcJwtria antJiophi/Ua, A. Eich. — Stipules minute, connate, deltoid- 

 cuspidate, deciduous. Fruit as in Alberta, a small dry 2-celled 

 capsule, with a single clavate seed filling up each of the two cells, 

 crowned by the persistent calyx, 4 lobes of which are small and 

 lanceolate, the fifth accrescent, oblong-lanceolate, scariose and con- 

 sincuously veined. — Central Madagascar, Dr. Parker ! Baron 168 ! 



Alberta isosepala, n. sp. — A shrub, with slender glabrous 

 branchlets. Leaves lanceolate, shortly petioled, acute, cuneate at 

 the base, moderately firm in texture, 3-4 in. long, green and 

 glabrous on both surfaces, with fine ascending veins ; stipules 

 connate, deltoid, with a large crisp, persistent. Flowers in 

 dense terminal corymbose panicles, mixed with reduced leaves, 

 distinctly pedicellate. Calyx-tube small, obconic, iDilose ; limb of 

 5 subequal ovate veined'redclish membranous segments, \-h in. long. 

 Corolla-tube cylindrical, nearly glabrous, f in. long, funnel-shaped 

 and densely villose inside at the throat ; segments 5, spreading, 

 lanceolate, ^ in. long. Stamens subsessile at the throat of the 

 corolla-tube. Stigma reaching to the tip of the corolla segments. 

 Fruit not seen. — Forests of West Betsileo, Baron 112 ! 



Tricalysia cryptocalyx, n. sp. — A shrub, with slender finely 

 pilose branchlets. Leaves opposite, subsessile, lanceolate, enthe, 2-3 

 in. long, acute, cuneate at the base, moderately firm in texture, green 

 and glabrous on both surfaces, with fine ascending veins. Stipules 

 connate, small, rigid, persistent, with a single cusp. Flowers 1-3, 

 nearly sessile in the axils of the leaves, the calyx-tube of each 

 quite hidden by an obconic cupular pilose persistent bracteole, 

 l-12th in. long and broad. Calyx-limb campanulate, pilose, 

 i lin. long, with 5 minute teeth. Corolla with a funnel-shaped 

 tube twice as long as the calyx-limb, and 5 spreading lanceolate 

 segments as long as the tube. Anthers 5, nearly sessile at the 

 throat of the corolla-tube. Fruit not seen. — Forests of West 

 Betsileo, Baron 169 ! A near ally of Schweinfurth's two Central 

 African species, T. iljuromis and 2\ n'uwiniamends. 



