APPENDIX II. 



Specimens were received throiigh the kindness of the Director of Agriculture 

 (Mr. Dobbs) and Mr. Mookharjee, but the flowers have dropped off and only a 

 few bear leaves. The plant was identified at the Calcutta herbarium as Bal- 

 samodendron Roxburr/hii, and agrees well with the equally poor material of this 

 species at Kew. 



As regards the name, Commiphora Ro.rburghii En<il. is the correct name of 

 CommipJiora Mukul {Balsamodoulron Roxburghii, Stocks, 1847, Balsa modendron 

 mukul, Hook. /., 1849. See also Eagler in Nat. Pflnnz. Fam., Ill, iv, p. 253). But 

 if regarded as a distinct species, this leaves Balsamodendron Roxburf/hii of the 

 F.B.I, without a published specific name except the tautonym Commiphora 

 commiphora. Rather than rename the plant on the very scanty material that 

 exists of it, and with regard to the view expressed in the F.B.I, that it may be 

 identical with Balsamodendron mukul, I have treated it as a variety of that 

 species. 



FAM. 49. SAPINDACEiE (p. 215). 



7. SAPINDUS, L. 



Fls. large. Sepals ovate tomentose, disc hairy. Fruit more or 



less hairy or glabrescent ....... Spp. 1 and 2 



Fls. small. Sepals orbicular glabrous and petaloid. Disc (p. 215). 



glabrous. Frt. glabrous 3. 3Iukorossi. 



3. S. Mukorossi, Gcertn. Ritha, H., Beng. 



A handsome tree with young shoots tomentose. Leaves crowded 

 towards the ends of the branches 6-18" long, leaflets 10-16 lanceolate 

 acuminate or obtuse, 2-6" by -75-2", glabrous. Fls. -1" white or 

 purple in terminal and lateral pyramidal panicles which are tomentose 

 only when young. Petals 5, AAith a woolly scale on each side at the 

 top of the claw. Ovary 3-'quetrous, glabrous. 



Cultivated at several places in Bhagalpur and in the Dharbhanga Raj gardens, 

 D. Mookharjee. Occasionally cultivated in Chota Nagpur ! FI. May-June. Fr. 

 Sept. -Dec. Renews leaves in April. Native of China and Japan. 



Leaflets with numerous close secondary nerves. Sep. and petals ciliate. St. 

 8, rarely 6. Fruit of usually only one sub-globose smooth yellow drupel •75-1" 

 diam. 



The fruit is used for soap. 



FAM. 78. COMPOSURE (p. 475). 



Add to key on p. 454: — 



Herm. fls. mostly fertile with divided styles . . . .15. Gnaphalium.. 

 Herm. fls. all sterile, their styles obtuse subcapitate or slightly 



2-cIeft .......... 15*. Anaphalis. 



Add after Gnaphalmni : — 



15*. ANAPHALIS, DC. 



Erect cottony or woolly herbs Avith alternate simple leaves. Heads 

 small corymbose, disciform, heterogamous or sometimes unisexual. 

 If heterogamous female flowers outermost, numerous filiform 2-4- 

 toothed. Herm. fls. usually sterile, tubular with subcampanulate 

 5-fid limb. Involucral bracts scarious, inner with a petaloid limb, 

 outer shorter, outermost woolly. Receptacle naked. Anther bases 

 sagittate with connate caudate auricles. Style of herm. fl. filiform, 

 obtuse, subcapitate or 2-cleft. Achenes very small, oblong, pappus 



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