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a small stalked gland in the centre, and the main lamina is 

 naiTOwed very gradually into a short petiole. Native name 

 Vivaona. A full account of all that is known of the genus is con- 

 tained in a paper by Dr. Baillon in ' Adansonia,' vol. ix., p. 243. 



ViscuM cRYPTOPHLEBiuM, n. sp. — Stcms stiff and woody, much 

 branched, about ^ ft. long, terete, with about six distinct ribs, the 

 ferrugineo-tomentose branchlets rather flattened below the nodes. 

 Leaves opposite, round or oblong, rarely oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, 

 i-f in. long, obtuse or subacute, very rigid in texture, green and 

 glabrous on both surfaces, the veins quite hidden, narrowed at the 

 base into a short flattened petiole. Flowers in copious umbels 

 of 3 on short peduncles, often 4 umbels to a node, two connate 

 deltoid bracts forming a boat-shaped cup at the base of the three 

 flowers. Pedicels very short, that of the central flower longer 

 than the two side ones. Ovary clavate, under h in. long. Sepals 

 4, minute, deltoid. Berry oblong, l-12th to l-8th in. long, with a 

 short pedicel, a short persistent cylindrical style and a capitate 

 stigma. — Central Madagascar, Dr. Parker. Near V. rotiindi/olium, 

 Thunb., of the Cape, and V. Murchisonia7ium, Schweinf., of 

 Abyssinia. 



LoRANTHUs {Dendropthoe) microcuspis, n. sp. — A very much- 

 branched small shrub, glabrous in all its parts, with pale stiff 

 branchlets with short iuternodes. Leaves opposite, obscurely 

 petioled, oblong, ^-^ in. long, with a distinct cusp at the tip, 

 coriaceous in texture, green on both sides, rather shining, the 

 veins entu-ely hidden. Flowers solitary, sessile at the tips of the 

 branchlets. Calyx l-12th in. long, with an oblong tube, large 

 deltoid segments, and at the base a large oblique cupular bracteole. 

 Corolla an inch long, curved, yellow and red or all red, slit down 

 one side below the middle, its 5 segments lanceolate, ^ in. long. 

 Anthers i-12th in. long, nearly sessile at the base of the corolla- 

 segments. Style just exserted beyond the corolla-segments ; stigma 

 capitate. — Forest of East Betsileo, flowering in January, Baron 

 54 ! Easily marked from the other Madagascar species of this 

 section by its sessile solitary terminal flowers. 



LoRANTHUs {Dendropthoe) pachyphyllus, n. sp. — A shrub, 

 glabrous in all its parts, with terete pale branchlets. Leaves 

 opposite, obscurely petioled, oblong, obtuse, 1-1^ in. long, very 

 thick and rigid in texture, the veins including the midrib entirely 

 hidden, the base narrowed. Umbels 3-4-flowered, sessile in the 

 axils of the leaves ; pedicel none. Calyx ^ in. long, with an oblong 

 tube, deltoid teeth, and a pair of small deltoid bracteoles at the 

 base. Corolla curved, subcyhndrical, an inch long, slit down the 

 lower side to the middle ; teeth 5, lanceolate, ^ in. long. Anthers 

 li- in. long, subsessile at the base of the corolla- segments. Style 

 as long as the corolla. — Forests of East Betsileo, Baro7i 224 ! 

 Native name Towjoalahij . 



(To be continued). 



