94 A NEW STRONGYLODON FROM MADAGASCAR. 
below each floret. — Glumes: the two lowest smaller, empty, 
unequal, t 
one-third the length of the spikelet; light brown, membranous ; 
midrib strong, sa produced iuto a strong awn about one-fourth 
the length of the leaf, with — — teeth ; the apex has 
also two short lateral toothed lob ertile glumes keeled, the 
midrib and two very prominent stds veins ceak produced into a 
awn with upwardly directed teeth, the central one the longest, 
the leaf-tissue prolonged between the awns into pointed minutely 
ranous between the nerves, the cells containing a pink sap. Pale 
very thin, membranous and colourless, included in and nearly equal 
in length to the glume, the two strong keel-like nerves toothed on 
the back; apex ~~ irregularly serrate. 
Hab. Ookiep, ar ualand, Scully | 
Near the ad mollis R. Br., which differs in its 
revolute setose loadin ili long panicle (6-10 in.), its somewhat 
narrower glume, and considerably shorter pale. 
n the Ilora Australiensis, vol. vii. p. 603 (1878), the genus is 
said to be limited to Australia, but in the aon Plantarun, 
wi 
traliane,’’ and “in specie capensi panicula mollis sed laxior (i. e., 
than 7. mollis), gluma lobi membranacei ad latera eaxtertora aristarum 
lateralium.” In the proposed new species the panicle is as dense as 
that of mollis, while the membranous lobes of the glume are not on 
the outside of the lateral awns, but between these and the central 
ones. 
A NEW STRONGYLODON FROM MADAGASCAR, 
By J. G. Baxer, F.R.S, 
Strongylodon is a well-marked genus of Phaseolee allied to 
Erythrina and Mucuna, which till lately was only known in 
Ceylon and Polynesia. In 1880 a fox species @. madagascariensis 
Baker) was discovered in Madagascar by Mr. Langley ae 
which tas since been gathered by Baton and Hildebrand (No. 98). 
Now Mr. Baron has sent home a well-marked second — 
which he wishes, if it is new, to oe ania gree Miss Craven. It 
proves to be quite new and very distinct, and the following 
fesrpton is taken to a large extent from the notes which he hag 
ae Craveniz Baron & Baker, n. sp.—- A climbing 
shrub, with a few scattered hairs on the bi ‘ranchlets, otherwise 
glabrous. Leaves pinnately trifolio wh membranous glabrous; 
petiole 2-23 in. long; end leaf suborbicular, obtuse, 2-3 in. lon 
and nearly as ; side ones very oblique, on short pleles 5 
stipules deltoid; stipule minute, lanceolate. Flowe: lax 
