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tube, which is hairy all over inside. Corolla whitish, with a tube 

 as long as the calyx and 4 spreading obovate or oblong-obtuse seg- 

 ments ^ as long as the tube. Stamens 4, inserted at the hairy 

 throat of the corolla-tube ; filaments rather longer than the corolla- 

 segments, suberect ; anther of two divaricated obtuse oblong cells. 

 Style finally overlopping the stamens ; stigma capitate. — Forests of 

 West Betsileo, Baron 23 ! Gathered previously by Bojer and 

 Lyall. A near ally of the widely-spread Gape and Tropical African 

 y. congesta, R. Br. 



Anthocleista madagascariensis, n. sp. — A good-sized tree, 

 glabrous in all its parts, with stout terete branches, with very short 

 internodes. Leaves with a short petiole, which is dilated at the 

 base to clasp the stem ; blade oblanceolate-oblong, entu-e, obtuse, 

 about ^ ft. long, 2-3 in. broad, subcoriaceous, with fine immersed 

 veins, green on both surfaces. Flowers in ample terminal flat- 

 topped dichotomous cymes. Calyx infundibuliform, coriaceous, 

 ^ in. long ; lobes 4, suborbicular, decussate, permanently much 

 imbricated, longer than the tube. Corolla an inch long, with 

 a greenish tube obconic in the upper half and 10-12 violet oblong 

 much imbricated segments. Filaments completely united in a 

 ring ^ in. deep. Anthers lanceolate, nearly valvate, ^ in. long. 

 Ovary globose, narrowed into a short deeply grooved style. Stigma 

 capitate, obscurely 2-lobed. Fruit an indehiscent berry IJ in. long. 

 — Forest at Ankafina, in the Betsileo country, flowering in January, 

 Baron 73 ! Native name Tendemilahi/ . Nearly allied to A. Vogelii^ 

 Planch. ; Hook. Fl. Nigrit. t. 43. 



(To be continued.) 



THE CITATION OF BOTANICAL AUTHORITIES. 

 By Prof. Asa Gray, M.D., F.R.S. 



It is almost certain that Article 50 of the ' Laws of Botanical 

 Nomenclature ' has been aj)plied in a manner which the jpromulgator 

 could not have distinctly contemplated ; and it seems probable that 

 the rule will be reduced to a recommendation adverse to the taking 

 up for use (as well as the synonymous citation abeady reprobated) 

 of manuscript and garden names. "While unpublished such names 

 of course have no authority. When they come in a systematic 

 botanist's way the question for him is, whether he shall make them 

 authoritative by publishing them ; and the subsequent question is, 

 whether the published record shall be cited as it stands. In my 

 opinion the answer to the first question should be left to the 

 botanist's discretion and sense of propriety ; and that the answer 

 to the second, upon recognised principles, must be in the affir- 

 mative. 



However that may be, there is a class of cases, by no means 

 rare, to which a more direct obligation is attached, and with which 

 the wording of Article 60 conflicts. A monographer sometimes 



