ALABASTRA DIVERSA -219 
postico quadrato-oblongo apice integro antici rotundati lobis brevi- 
bus obtusissimis, ovario ovoideo, stylo glabro, capsula parvula 
Hab. Madagascar; Vaughan Thompson 
Planta summum 20°0cm. alt. Rami 0: 1-0:12 em. diam., “gon 
se beara internodia 8°5-5°0 cm. long. Folia 0°6-1°3 ¢ 
long., 0-4-1-3 cm. lat.; cost# ee utrinque 8-4, fac. int, 
magis sae tneseae: ; petioli 0-1-0°3 cm. long., vel etiam 0. Spice 
i 5 : 0 cm. long., 0:4 cm. <i (teal 0°55 cm., bracteole 
m. long. eet lobi 0°45 cm. long., posticus 0°06 cm. 
reliqui 0:02-0:03 cm. lat., omnes ut bractew et bracteole ei 
necnon virides. Corolle tubus 0°5 em. long., inferne 0-1 ¢ 
faucibus 0°15 cm. diam. ; labium anticum 0-2 cm.-long. et Poles 
hujus lobi 0-075 Baie long. Ovarium 0-075 cm., stylus 0:5 cm., 
capsula 0-4 cm. long. 
Can be at onee distinguished by the densely-flowered secund 
heads, and the narrow and sharp-pointed bracts and bracteoles. 
The pollen is like that of Nicoteba, but I agree with Mr. Clar 
in log that a genus an unsatisfactory one. 
(§ Harniera) Forbesii, sp. nov. Caule ascendente 
prolixo Batsister olowo genionlato lara foliis lineari-lanceolatis 
obtusis basin versus in petiolum sat longum coartatis utrinque 
glabris in sicco olivaos: brunneis, floribus bare a cymulis brevis- 
simis paucifloris axillaribus digestis, bracteolis minutis quam calyx 
multo brevioribus, calycis lobis lanceolatis longe acuminatis glabris, 
ae Rep calycem leviter superante recto labio postico sub- 
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big manifeste majore, stylo obtusiusculo, capsula normali 
quam calyx pave: sonepar? glabra abnormali rotundata margine 
tio cristata gla 
Hab. Mada SRT, aren 
Herba saltem 40:0 alt. olin (absque petiolo 0:5-0°8 cm. 
long.) 1°5-2°0 ax 0°5- 07. em.; floralia sessilia vel subsessilia, 
summum 1:0 cm. long. Bracteole lineares vel lineari-lanceolate, 
0°1-0°2 cm. Sees Calyx 0-4 cm. long. Corolle tubus 0°45 cm. 
long., sursum leviter amplificatus; labium posticum 0-4 x 0°3 cm.; 
rents antici lobi 0-125 cm. pak Antheraru m loculus alter 0:08 cm. 
alte 2cm. mag Ovarium conoideum, 
Capsula normalis 0 0-6 cm. tty abnormalis 0 4x 0-4 em. 
Nearest J. Mollu o ©. B. Clarke, with shia it agrees in the 
shortly cymulose inflorescences, but from which it differs, among 
other points, in the larger corollas and the Saal capsules twice 
as long. 
UsTICIA DELICATULA Scott Elliot, 1. c. 39. A species referred 
to § Rostellularia by Mr. Scott Elliot ; ; its characters, however, 
seem to be entirely those of § Ansellia.. At the Museum this 
species is represented by the following. specimens Gains; Eee 
brandt, 3653, Ivohimanitra Forest; Forsyth-Major, 31. 
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