ERRATA.
The following discrepancies occur between the names on the plates and in the letter press, which the reader
requested to correct.
Volume
P late.
1695. E ria pubèscens,
1669. Vanda parvifoha,
1727. Monochilus,
1745. Saccolab. guttatum,
r.—Part I.
Letter Press.
E. polystachya.
JErides Wigntiana.
Cheirostylis.
S. Rheedii.
The five following corrections have been suggested by the
1736. Oxysepala ovalifolia,
1737. Aggianthus Marchantioides,
1748. Appendicula Hasseltii,
1750. Pattonia,
1751. Cytheris Griffithii,
Reviewer in the Gardener’s Chronicle (Dr. Lindley ?)
Bolbophyllum clandestinum.
Porpax reticulata.
Agrastophyllum species.
Wailesia.
Calanthe vestita.
Volume V.—Part n .
1776. iE rv a floribunda, Pseudanthus brachiatus.
1779. Achyranthes.veridis, A. bidentata.
1792. Suceda Indica,— S. monoica.
• 1796. Haliincremmis, Suceda. _
1897. Melanthesa truncata, M. turbinata.
1908. Gynoon triandrum, G. Jussieuanum.
JJ* | Tulasnea, Dalzellia.
1854. Sarcostigma. Dr. Arnott informs me in a letter th a t this genus is identical with
Jenkinsia (Griffith, Calcutta Journal v. 4, p. 231.) In this I think he is wrong,
or a t all events premature, as he had not seen the seed. Jenkinsia has copious
f.ihnmpnj Sarcostigma, unless I have observed very incorrectly, is exalbuminous.
1873. Rottlera peltata, this if not Roxburgh’s plant, will probably be found referable
to Dalzell’s Rottlera Mappoides.
1880. Microelus. This I learn from D r. Arnott is Bischofia, Blume, a much older name
th an ours and which, therefore, it must, for the future, bear.
The "amps on the undermentioned plates need to be corrected as follows:
No. 1765. P. morindifolia No. 1878-79. Goughia
— 1767. C. argentia — 1885. ' Baliospermum
— 1773. E. caudatus — 1890. Trigonostemon
— 1781. C. tomentosa 1894. P. Niruri
— 1789. Obione Stocksü — 1895-3. P. Madrapatensis
— 1790. -------- Konegii — 1897. M. turbinata
— 1795. S. spinescens 1899. A. multiflora
— 1813. B. dipetala — 1907. G. velutinum
— 1826-27., Alseodaphne sfemecarpifolia \— 1908. triandrum change to Jussieuanum
— 1828. B. Tioxburghiana : —r 1911. Amanoa
1838. Lepidadenia glabrata — 1918-1. P. subulatus
;Vf_ 1843. A. melochina -------- 3. H. griseum
— 1848. S. bicolor — 1919-1. Dalzellia Zeylanica
— 1859. Gnidia eriocephala ------- 3. D. Lawii
— 1868. A. neriifolia ------- -4. D. pedunculosa.
1869. A. retusa
EXPLANATION OF PLATES.
VOL. V.—PART H.
1763-64. Pisonia aculeata (Linn. P .georgina,
Wall,, list 6768 ?) Shrubby, glabrous, armed, spines
axillary, hooked: leaves petioled ovate, tapering at
both ends or somewhat bluntly pointed; flowers dioi-
cous: fruit clavate, 5-ribbed ;• ribs beset with viscid
glands.
A widely distributed, large straggling shrub, everywhere,
except the new shoots and young leaves (which
are finely pubescent) glabrous: branches armed with
axillary recurved very sharp thorns: male flowers
collected in axillary and terminal compact panicles;
female panicles loose and spreading.
Roxburgh relates that he and Dr. Konig were once
caught among its branches and, owing to its numerous
strong hooked prickles, found it no easy matter to
disengage themselves from its trammels, whence, not
being at the time aware of its being a described plant,
Konig, in his notes, gave it the name of Traggidaria
horrida. I t is a native of both the East and West
Indies.
I have doubtfully quoted Wall, list Ho. 6768 for
this plant from knowing no other Indian species ex- ■
cept the following, with which it can’t be confounded.
1765. Pisonia morindifolia (R. Br. in Wall, list,
No. 7130), shrubby or sub-arboreous; leaves ovate-
cordate sub-acuminate, glabrous, (at first very pale
or nearly white, afterwards light pea-green) : flowers •
in terminal panicles, hermaphrodite, tubular; limb
slightly 5-lobed: stamens about 8, unequal, partly
exserted: ovary usually sterile.
I have only seen this plant in cultivation. I t is
common in the gardens about Madras, and is called
there, Tree Lettuce. I t rarely flowers, and I have
never seen the fruit. I believe it is known in the
Calcutta Botanic garden under the same English
name, but its native country is still unknown. The
leaves sometimes attain a great size, 8 to 10 inches
long and 4 or 5 broad at the base. In taste somewhat
resembles the Lettuce, but to my taste forms but
an indifferent substitute. The ends of the branches
being crowned with white leaves, when all the rest
are green, gives it a peculiar appearance, which,
added to free growth, seems to have rendered it
rather a favourite. I t attains the size of a small
tree.
This I believe is the plant meant by Mr. Brown,
and the name seems sufficiently appropriate.
HH P I Boerhaavia repanda (Wild.), stems diffuse,
climbing, glabrous: leaves cordato-ovate, sub-acumi-
date; smuately repand: peduncles axillary, solitary,
usually longer than the leaves, ending in a single
umbel of from 4 to 6 flowers: flowers conspicuous,
mnnel-shaped, each supported on a longish pedicel;
tamens 3 or 4, exserted: fruit clavate, glandulose.
■ H | | co^ mon plant, widely distributed over
oouthern India, usually found climbing to a great
extent in hedges and among bushes. In old plants
e leaves are not developed on the -extreme branches,
giving them the aspect of great panicles, hence,
I presume, Choisy’s character, “ pedunculis floriferis
laxam panciculam efformantibus; and again, “ pani-
culte florum p e d a le s b o th of which expressions
seem to me incorrect. The flowers, which are the
largest and most conspicuous of those of the Indian
species of this genus, are a moderately deep-pink or
rose-colour; the fruit is beset with viscid glands.
1767. Celosia argbntia (Moquin), herbaceous,
ramous, glabrous: leaves sub-petioled, linear lanceolate,
or nearly linear (seldom ovate), acute: spikes
long peduncled, ovato-cylindrical or cylindrical, cuspidate:
sepals longer than the bracts, slightly keeled,
somewhat 3-nerved: utricle ovate pear-shaped.
In corn fields, but less frequent than the similar
looking Chamissoa pyramidalis.
The plant figured does not quite correspond with
tiie character, approaching in some points more nearly
to that of C. cristata, but departs as widely in others,
so that I feel some hesitation in determining to which
it ought to be referred. I believe however that it
may be viewed as a variety of C. argentia if the two
species are actually distinct, which may perhaps be
doubted, but that is a point on which I refrain from
offering an opinion, as I have only lately given my
attention to this order, which I find a very difficult
one, owing to many of the species being so liable
to run into variations.
1768. Celosia pulchella (Moq.), stem herbaceous,
branchy, glabrous: leaves ovato-lanceolate,
ovate, or rhombio-ovate, acute, glabrous: spikes simple,
interrupted, sub-flexuose: flowers sessile, solitary:
sepals longer than the bracts, acute, slightly
keeled, 1-nerved: utricles pear-shaped.
Courtallum, Neilgherries, and in moist soil in the
vicinity of tanks and wet cultivation.
This species has been confounded with C. poly-
gonoides from which it is very distinct. The specimen
represented is more luxuriant than those described
by Moquin Tandon, the spikes of which are
said to-be only about 2 or 2£ inches long.
1769. Chamissoa albida (Moq. not Mart.), stem
herbaceous, branchy, ascending, glabrous: leaves petioled,
long obovate, somewhat cuniform, blunt or
sub-emarginate, terminating in a minute point: heads
of flowers lateral or terminal, peduncled, somewhat
globose, compact: flowers short pedicelled: sepals
scarcely exceeding the bracts, very acute, slightly,
keeled, 1-nerved: utricle ovate.
In sandy soil near the sea coast, not nnfrequent :
flowering during the rainy and cool season.
I t will be seen from the analysis of this and the
following species, that they do not quite correspond
with the generic character, or rather, perhaps I
should say, that the character is somewhat imperfect
as regards the infloresence of the Indian species.
Here we find the flowers in groups of 3 together
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