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P. 638. Under 3. P. EUPHRATICA, for Balsamiflora read Balsamifera. 
P. 640. EPHEDRA. As this sheet was passing through the press, I received a 
copy of Dr. Stapf's elaborate ** Arten der Gattung Ephedra," published in the 
56th volume of the *€ Denkschrift der Mathem.-Naturwissenschaft. Classe der Kais. 
Akad. der Wissenschaft ” (Wien. 1889). The conspectus of his views which I here 
give will enable Indian botanists to estimate the value of the characters adopted 
for the discrimination of the species of this most puzzling genus. With the excep- 
tion of the few references between brackets ( ), the following is a translation from 
Stapf's memoir. 
Sect. PsEuDoBACCATA.  Bracts not winged, margins sometimes membranous. 
Tribe ScawpENTES. Scandent or subscandent shrubs (or prostrate in E. 
Soliata). 
l. E. FOLIATA (Boiss.), Stapf l.c. 49, t. 2, and 10, f. 1-11; male spikes 
usually clustered rarely subsolitary, peduncles very long and unequal, 
anthers 3—4, fem. cones 2.fld. 
Var. a. ciliata; branchlets dense pseudoverticillate or fascicled slender. 
Aitchison Fl. Kurum Valley, 187. E. foliata, Aitch. Bot. Affghan. 
Bound. Comm. 112. E. Alte, Brand. For. Fl. 501, t. 69. E. pedun- 
cularis, Boiss, Fl. Orient. v. 717. E. asparagoides, Griff. Notul. ii. 
340. (E. alata (? Alte), Edgew. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vi. 194.) — Western 
Panjab and Seinde (Rajpootana).—Distrid. Turkestan and westwards 
to Syria. 
Tribe PAcHvcLADAE. Shrubs. Branchlets very rigid, stout, strict. Male 
spikes densely crowded, sessile. Tubule of ovule (and seed) twisted. 
2. E. INTERMEDIA (Schrenk § Mey.), Stapf l. c. 61, t. 2, and 15, f. 1-9 ; anthers 
densely crowded usually sessile, bracts of fem, cone connate beyond the 
middle, seeds very shortly exserted plano-convex. E. pachyclada, Boiss. 
Fl. Orient, v. 718. . 
Var. glauca; lowly, rarely exceeding 20 in., erect or ascending from a short 
prostrate base, glaucous, rarely subglaucous, branchlets numerous 
elongate and naked above often densely subparallelly approximate, 
clusters of male spikes often large.—Kashmir.—Distrib. from Mongolia 
to Kashmir and Turkestan. . . 
Var. tibetica; a low shrub, erect or prostrate below with sometimes rong 
lax branchlets, internodes elongate more slender rarely short thick, 
bark scabrous or scaberulous glaucous sometimes bluish.— Western 
Tibet.—Distrid. Affghanistan, Khoten. uu 
Tribe LEPrTocrap:x. Low or middle-sized shrubs, branchlets slender rigidalous, 
rarely subflexuous. Male spikes variously disposed., Tubule of ovule (and 
seed) straight or twisted.—In E. Gerardiana specimens occur with thic 
branches. 
3. E. Gerarprana (Waill)., Stapf l. c. 75, t.3, and 18, f. 1-9, and 3, fl; a 
low shrub, branches short, terminal buds short usually constri A a 4 pe 
base, male spikes solitary or few sessile crowded, fem, cones a " 
innermost bracts scarcely connate to the middle, seeds always, sometimes 
much, exserted., 
Var. a. Wallichii; branches appressed to the ground, „branchlets short 
slender curved ascending, terminal buds much constricted 5 a = 
male spikes solitary small. Wall. Cat. 6048 ; Roy ^ VI. 501 dion 
vulgaris, Aitch. Fl. Kurum Vall. 186. Brandis are "al Tibet M 
Tibet, "Kunawur, Garwhal, Kumaon.—Distrid. Centra i 
Talatschu, Karakoram. . 
Ver. B. sani; taller tan var, Wallich, bak softer when dry wore 
distinctly striate and usually blackening, 3 6 ) 
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