ADDENDUM. 
SorHora ROBUSTA (Rox.)—The character and de- 
scriptions of Roxburgh’s Sophora robusta figured No. 245 
of this work having been omitted in the Flora Indica, 
I here publish it having been furnished with a copy 
by Dr. Wallich. It confirms the opinion formerly ex- 
pressed that the plant is not a species of Sophora, but 
more nearly approaches Ormosia. It however widely 
differs from that genus in the character of the legume 
which is fleshy in this, woody in that. Besides this, 
there are others, apparently of less moment, but which 
seem to indicate that if the two were compared, more 
important ones might be found; in which case it may 
prove the type of a new genus between Ormosia and 
Diplotropis": but as I am unacquainted with both these 
genera, except by written characters, I can offer no opi- 
nion on this point. Roxburgh describes the seed as 
being “ enveloped in a complete thick fleshy scarlet aril.” 
The meaning of this is not very obvious unless we sup- 
pose that owing to the vague definition of the term, at 
the time he wrote, he applied it to a coloured fleshy testa, 
in place of to an enlargement of the placenta. This 
supposition seems the more probable, as the figure pre- 
sents no indication of any growth or enlargement of the 
placenta. 
* Leaves unequally pinnate; leaflets 4-5 pairs, 
lanceolate. Panicles terminal, ligumes fleshy, 1-2 
seeded. 
Peyple the vernacular name in the Silhet district, where 
it grows to be a very large timber tree. Flowering 
in April and May, and the seed ripen in July. 
Young shoots as well as all the other tender parts dense- 
ly clothed with ferruginous down. 
Leaves alternate, unequally-pinnate, 6-12 inches long. 
Leaflets generally 4 or 5 pair, opposite, short-petiolate 
lanceolate entire, smooth, 3-5 inches long, by 1-2 
broad. 
Petioles round, downy. 
Panicles terminal, and from the exterior axils, as long 
as the leaves ovate ; composed of many, patent, 
simple, or compound, downy branches, 
Stipules ensiform, caducous, ferruginous. 
aime numerous, pretty large, short-pedicelled dull 
white. 
Calyx bowl-shaped, 5-toothed very villous, permanent. 
Corol papilionaceous; Banner nearly round, supported 
on a pretty long claw, with two callosities on the 
inside of its apex. Wings and Keel nearly equal, 
and rather shorter than the banner. 
Filaments 10 distinct smooth, length of the pistillum 
ascending Anthers ovate two lobed. 
Germ short-pedicelled, oblong, very hairy, one-celled : 
ovula two attached to the upper margin. Style as 
long as the germ, apex with a spiral turn. Stigma 
rather large glandular. 
Legume generally one-seeded, and then ovate; if two- 
seeded more lengthened, smooth, bright yellow, 
fleshy, size of a pullet’s egg, one-celled, two-valved. 
Seed for the most part one oblong, enveloped in a com- 
plete, thick, fleshy, scarlet aril. 
Perisperm none. 
Embryo conform to the seed. Cotyledons equal, line of 
Separation serpentine. Plumula two-lobed. Ra- 
dicle patilliform, centrifugal.” 
From Dr. Roxburgh’s MSS. Flora Indica, 
ERRATA. 
H 
No. 80 For Hym. obovatum (Wall.) read H. utile 
(R. W.) see No. 1159 for the character of the species. 
No. 829. for Vernonia conyzoides, read Vern. Den- 
digulensis (D. C. V. Candolleana Arnott not Martius,) 
fruticose, branches velloso-pubescent : leaves oblong 
lanceolate subacuminate, attenuated at the base into a 
short villous petiole; hispidulous above, more or less 
pubescent, beneath serrated ; serratures mucronate: co- 
rymbs lax compound naked : scales of the involucrum 
mucronate pubescently hirsute at the point ; achenium 
glabrous, exterior pappus short paliaceous. Arn, pu- 
gil p. 28.— D. C. Prod. 7. p. 263. 
These two are very nearly allied species, I had al- 
most said only certainly distinguishable by the exterior 
pappus which in V. conyzoides is spreading, and so 
short that it does not exceed the diameter of the seed 
forming quite a setaceous ray round the apex, while in 
the other it is erect paliate, and nearly half the length 
of the seed. In conyzoides the achænia are hairy : in 
Dendigulensis glabrous. "These most essential parts of 
the character are not, I regret to say, very well brought 
out in either of the figures. No. 829, was prepared 
many years ago, during my absence in Europe, and was 
published before I had properly made myself master 
of the details of this difficult family, otherwise the over- 
sight would have been corrected. 
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