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long as the calyx. Calyx ^ in. loug, with an oblong tube, mmute 

 quadrate teeth and a small oblique deltoid bracteole at the base. 

 Corolla cylindrical, bright red, i in. long, slit down one side below 

 the middle ; segments lanceolate, J in. long. Anthers lanceolate, 

 subsessile at the throat of the corolla-tube. Style as long as the 

 corolla. Berry oblong, ^-^ in. long. — A common parasite in the 

 woods of the Betsileo country. Baron 20 ! and Dr. Parker sends 

 what is j)i'obably a variety of the same species grown in a more 

 exposed situation, with thicker leaves with less distinct veining, 

 under the native name of Hazo-miavona. 



Tambourissa parvifolia, n. sp. — A tree with slender glabrous 

 branchlets. Leaves opposite, distinctly petioled, oblong, obtuse, 

 entire, subcoriaceous, deltoid or rather rounded at the base, green 

 and glabrous on both surfaces, 1-1^ in. long, the 5-6-jugate fine 

 almost patent main veins connected by arches within the margin. 

 Male flowers 4-8 in racemes or umbels on short lateral peduncles ; 

 pedicels curved, ^-\ in. long, with a small persistent deltoid bract 

 subtending them at the base. Male perianth suborbicular, brownish, 

 coriaceous, ^ in. diam., permanently closed, without any aperture 

 at the apex, filled up with the oblong sessile or nearly sessile 

 anthers, those of the opposite sides touching at their tips. Female 

 perianth and fruit not seen. — Forests of Central Madagascar, 

 Dr. Parker I Native name Ambora and Amhoravato. 



Urera Amberana, n. sp. — A shrub with ultimate branchlets as 

 stout as a pencil. Petiole 2-3 in. long ; stipules deciduous ; blade 

 cordate-ovate-cuspidate, 5-6 in. long, deeply serrated, thin in 

 texture, green with a thin covering of short bristly hairs on both 

 surfaces. Flowers monoicous, in clusters on the slender branches 

 of oblong bipinnate panicles which with their peduncles are about 

 as long as the leaves. Male flowers only seen. Male perianth 

 depresso-globose, greenish, 1 lin. diam., with 5 deltoid valvate 

 teeth, a short tube and 5 oblong stamens with very short filaments 

 surrounding a rudimentary ovary. Round villages in the Betsileo 

 country, Baron 321 ! Native name Amberana. 



PiPTURUS integrifolius, n. sp. — A shrub 6-8 feet high, the 

 slender branchlets clothed with white tomentum. Leaves alternate, 

 distinctly petioled ; stipules ovate, scariose, brown, deciduous ; blade 

 ovate, acute, entire, 1-1^ in. long, green and shortly pilose on the 

 upper surface, clothed with white tomentum beneath, with 3-4- 

 jugate erecto-patent main veins. Flowers in dense sessile globose 

 monoicous clusters in the axils of the leaves. Male bud orbicular, 

 pilose. Male perianth with 5 deltoid segments and 5 inflexed 

 stamens with filaments as long as the orbicular anthers surrounding 

 the rudimentary ovary. Pericarp crustaceous, adhering to the 

 entire ampullaeform pilose perianth of the female flower. — Shrubby 

 places in West Betsileo, flowering in December, Baron 103 ! 

 Native name, Fotsimivadika (^= white on the other side.) 



Pilea HYPNOPmLA, n. sp. — An annual herb, with erect glabrous 

 stems under a foot long. Leaves distant, opposite, the upper- 

 most pair with a short, the lower with a long (^-f in.) petiole ; 

 stipules semiorbicular, adnate to the petiole, ^ in. long; blade 



