ICONES TLANTARUM. 11 



Plate 1413. 



XEEOCHLAMYS PILOSA, Baher. 



m 



Chl^nace^, 



1 



X. pilosa, BaJcer in Trimen Journ. 1882, p. 45. (Species unica.) 



m 



Hab. Central Madagascar ; bleak stony liills of Betsileo-land and 

 Imerina, Baron 134, 947, 1873. 



^Arhuscula parva, ramosissima, ramulis gracilibus teretibus liguosis 

 pilosis. ^ Folia alterna, breviter petiolata, oblonga vel obovato-oblonga, 

 integerrima, obtusa, subcoriacea, facie viridia calvata, dorso pins minus 

 pilosa, Flores ad axillas foliorum siiperiornTn subsessilcs, solitarii. 

 Involucrum campaunlatnm, subcoriacenm, dense pilosnra, uniflorum, 

 dentibus 5-10 deltoideis vel lanceolatls, Sepala 3, obovata, pilosa 

 involucro snb^quilonga. Petala 5, rnbella, obovato^spatbulata, glabra, 

 calyce duplo longiora. Stamina 20-30, intra urceolum campanulatnm 

 inserta, petalis sequilonga, filamentis liberis applanatis ad urceolum 

 hand adnatin, antheris parvis snbglobosis. Ovarium sessile, dense pilo- 

 sum, triloculare, ovulis in loculo panels ; stylus cylindricus, stigmate 

 capitato obscure trilobato. Gapsula globosa, localicide trivalvis, rigida, 

 dense pilosa, niagnitudine pisi, seniinibus obovoideis turgldis nigris 

 rugosis.— J. G. Bakee. 



Fig. 1. Involucre. 2. A sepal. 3. A petal. 4. Fertile stamens, aud staminodial 



tircpolus* 5. An anther. 6. Pistil. 7. Immature capsule and involucre. All 

 enlarged^ 



Plate 1414. 



HENONIA SCOPARIA, Mog. 



Amaranthace^, Tribe Celosiejc. 



H, SCOparia, Moq. in JDG. Prod. xii. ii. 237 ; fructiculus erectns sco. 

 panna giaberrimus, ramis ramnlisque gracilibus, foliis linearibus obtusis 

 basi angustatis, floribus parvis spicatis, 



Hab, Madagascar, Ltjall^ Bojer, Baron, 914, 91.6. 



Frutionlns nt videtnr 2-3-perlalis, floribundns, basi lignosus, caulibns 

 ramisque erectis teretibus striatis, Jnnioribns foliisque novellis pube- 

 rnlis, nltimis elongatis gracilibus strictis apbyllis. Folia ^1 poll, longa, 

 g poll, lata, sessilia, enervia, costa tenui, integerrima, viridia. Floret in 



