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1. Plagenium triplobum Baillon, Hist. PL vii. 444 (1880). 

 A Bhrub 7 8 ft. high, with virgate branches and oblong-lanceolate 



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Bab. Madagascar, Goudot ! in Tib. Mus. Brit. 



The leaves reach 10 cm. in length and over 3 cm. in width, with 

 stalk 5 nun. long; the subulate-acuminate stipules are 8-9 mm. in 

 length. The cymes are subsessile, and the corolla-lobes narrow 

 triangular acuminate and very acute. The calyx-lobes are barely 

 1 cm. lcnu f . and subulate-setaceous, erect, tending to curl at 

 maturity, and the calyx-tube is manifest, 3 mm. long in the fruit. 



2. Flagenium arboreum, sp. nov. Arbor ramulis gracilibus, 

 foliis minusculis oblongis acuminatis acutis supra glabris subtus 

 puberulis brevissime petiolatis, stipulis a basi lato subulato-acumi- 

 natis, a/ mis manifeste pedunculatis, calycis tubo obsoleto lobis 

 elongatis linearibus planis nee subulatis demum patentibus rigidi- 

 usculis, corolla lobis oblongis parum acuminatis. 



Hal). Madagascar; Port Dauphin, in woods, Scott Elliot, 

 2749 ! in Herb. Mus. Brit. 



Readily distinguished by its arboreal habit, pedunculate in- 

 florescence, and the characters of the calyx. The leaves are from 

 6 6*5 cm. long and rather more than 2 cm. wide; peduncles 



I 5 mm. long ; calyx-lobes 11-12 mm. long and 1 mm. wide. 

 Corolla-lobes 4-5 mm. x 1-5-2 mm., tube very short. 



3. Flagenium latifolium, sp. nov. Ramulis minute strigil- 

 losis, foliis elliptico-oblongis latiusculis utrinque nisi subtus in vena 

 media strigillosis glaberrimis breviter acuminatis basi rotundatis 

 nonnunquam obliquis petiolo brevissimo, stipulis brevibus acumi- 

 natis, cymis subsessilibus, calycis tubo brevi tamen manifesto 

 laciniis elongatis setaceo-subulatis. 



Madagascar: Ghapelierl ex Hb. Kunth. Hb. Berlin. 



At once separated from the other two species by the much 

 broader leaves, 8-5-9 cm. long and over 4 cm. broad, and the 

 shorter stipules — less than 5 mm. long — as well as by the almost 



plete glabrousness of the under surface of the leaves. The 



ties are about 4 mm. at most, and the stipules are the same 



length. The calyx-lobes exceed 1 cm. in the flower-bud and attain 



II 15 mm. 



BOTANICAL NOTES FROM PORTUGAL. 

 By W. E. Nicholson. 



In M;l >' L911, ! spent a short holiday in Portugal in the 

 company oi Mr. II. N. Dixon, F.L.S. Most of our time was spent 

 in the southern province of Algarve, where we stayed for ten days 



1 aldaa de Monchique. Our main object was to study the 

 interesting bryology of the district, and our observations on the 

 higher plants, being more or less incidental only, were necessarily 

 very imperfect, hut ;l s the district is but little visited, some account 

 of the principal plants observed may not be without interest, 



