APPENDIX II. 



ADDITAMENTA. 



FAM. 19. AIZOACEJE (p. 49). 



2. TRIANTHEMA, L. 



Flowers solitary. Style 1. L. usually obovate . . . . 1. monogyna. 

 Flowers clustered. Styles 2. L. not obovate . . . .2. pentaiulra. 



2. T. pentandra, L. Syn. T. gobviiidia, Ham. 



A herb diffusely branched from the roots. Leaves elliptic or oblong- 

 lanceolate -5-1 -5", rounded or obtuse, papillose; petiole •2-' 3", 

 dilated at the base. Flowers in axillary sessile clusters. Stamens 5. 

 Capsule • 1" oblong mitriform above and 2-valvular, circumsciss at 

 base below the valves, each valve with a 2-lobed divergent beak. 

 Seeds 2 dull-black closely lineolate-channelled, one at the base of 

 each cell, the apex also closely adnate to a seed in each beak. 

 Monghyr, Ram. ! Fl., Fr. May-June. 



FAM. 39. BURSERACE^ (p. 172). 



4. COMMIPHORA. 



Unarmed. L. 3-7-foliolate, Iflts. entire. Disc with short free 



margin . . . . . . . . . .1. caudata. 



Armed. L. 3-1-foliolate, Iflts. finely serrulate. Disc erect 



cupular 2. Roxburgliii. 



2. C. Roxburghii, Engl., var. serratifolia, Haines. Syn. Balsamo- 



dendron Roxburghii, Am. ; Am5^ris commiphora, Roxb. ; Amyris 



serratifolia, Rottler MS. 



A small tree with almost white outer bark peeling off in very thin 



flakes and disclosing a green under-surface. Branchlets mostly 



ending in thorns. Leaves 1-foliolate (in our specimen), sometimes 



3-foliolate with the lateral leaflets much smaller than terminal and in 



our specimens mostly visible as two stipel-like or glandular processes. 



Terminal (or only leaflet) lanceolar-elliptic acuminate, finely serrate, 



1-2" long, petioles slender. Flowers (according to Roxburgh) small 



red, sub-sessile on small axillary tubercles on the leafless twigs. Drupe 



about -25" diam. red. 



Collected from a mound on the banks of the Ganges at Mayagunj, Bhagalpur, 

 where several were growing together, D. JMookharjee ! Fl. h.s. 



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