598 ADDENDA AND CORRIGENDA 
1. B. Madagascariensis (Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 730); leaves oblong or 
obovate, quite entire, with revolute margins, netted-veined beneath. 
Venana Madagascariensis, Lam. Encycl. t, 131. 
Has. Delagoa Bay, Forbes! (Herb. Hk. D.) ae 
A glabrous and somewhat glaucous shrub. Leaves in our specimens shorter and 
more obovate than in those from Madagascar, but otherwise similar ; 3-4 inches 
long, 24-3 inches wide. Ripe fruit 23 inches long, obscurely 5-angled, tapering to 
a conical, acute point; the rind thick and woody. Seeds horizontal. 
Page 310, line 38, for Brunia alopecuroides, Zhwnb.? read Thunb. / 
Page 320, line 1, for B.microcephala, E.M., read B. macrocephala, E.M. 
Page 470, under Aizoon Zeyheri, Sond., add: 
Has. Bitterfontein, Zeyher. / 717. (Herb. Sond.) 
Page 479, the following genus, accidentally omitted, ought to be 
introduced after Plinthus :— 
VII. TRIANTHEMA, Lam. 
Sepals 5, persistent, united at the base, coloured on the inner surface 
and mucronate below the apex. Petals none. Stamens 5 or 10, rarely 
more, free, inserted on the tube of the calyx. Anthers cordate-ovate. 
Ovary ovate. Styles (or stigmas) filiform, 1-2, rarely 3. Capsule cir- 
cumscissile below the middle, bilocular ; seeds subsolitary in each cell. 
DC. 1. ce. 3. 353. Endl. gen. n. 5168. 
Subfleshy herbs, sometimes suffrutescent at the base ; leaves opposite, entire, 
petiolate. Petiole dilated at the base at each side into a stipuloid membrane. 
Flowers bibracteolate, axillary, sessile, solitary, glomerate or cymose. Name from 
tps, three, and avdos, a flower. 
1. T. crystallina (Vahl. Symb. 1. 32.) ; perennial, cespitose, woody 
at the base ; stems prostrate, terete, papulose ; leaves ovate or somewhat 
spathulate, opposite, one of them smaller than the other 3 flowers 
crowded, axillary; stamens 5; style simple. Wight & Arn. Prod. 1. 
355- Papularia crystallina. Forsk. descr. 69. 
ihechlooke = ope nearly mt at the apex papulose, reddish as well as 
e u eaves ; flowe ; i 
= spa os ig hotertliat Pee ee omerate ; tube of the calyx finely striated. 
Var. ‘y. corymbosa, stems elongate, epapulose or nearly so, pale ; leaves oblong- 
oe ee evidently petiolate ; flowers in loose cymes. 7’. corymbosa, E. Meyer in 
Has. (var. a. Arabia, East Indies); var. 8. on the Garip River, Drege ; near 
Springbokkeel, Zeyher, 633 partim ; var. +. near Caletohen on the Garip, Drege ; 
Namaqualand, A. Wyley, Sept. (Herb. D. Sd.) 
Stem from several inches to 1 foot long, filiform, with opposite branches. Leaves 
4-6 lines long, 1-1} line wide ; petiole 1-2 lines long, membranaceous. Glomerule 
of flowers many flowered, usually shorter, rarely equalling the leaf ; calyx reddish, 
1 line long ; lobes acute, a little longer than the tube. Stamens equalling the calyx. 
Seeds glabrous, reticulate-punctate, exactly as in 7’. crystallina. 
2. T. parvifolia (E. Meyer in herb, Drege); perrennial? cespitose, 
herbaceous ; stems terete, prostrate or diffuse, papulose or subglabrous ; 
leaves suborbicular, opposite, one of them generally smaller than the 
other; flowers ternately aggregated, axillary ; stamens 5; style simple. 
Has. Zwartbulletje, stony hills, and on the Gamk Ri — f 
Springbokkeel, Zeyh. 633, Feb.-Apr. (Herb, D.Sd) 0 °°? St? D8ee® 
