ADDENDA. 



P. 307. Under TRIBE III. Spiraeae, insert : 



Seeds linear, testa membranous, albumen scanty or 7. SPIRJEA. 



Seeds turgid, testa crustaceous, albumen copious 7*. NELLUA. 



P. 32G. Before 8. Rubus, insert: 



7*. NEIX.Z.ZA, Don. 



Perennial shrubs. Leaves alternate, simple; stipules large, deciduous. 

 Flowers racenaed or panicled, white. Calyx persistent ; tube campanulate ; 

 lobes 5. Petals 5. Stamens 10 or more. Disc lining the calyx-tube. Carpels 

 1-5, free or connate ventrally ; ovules few or many. Follicles coriaceous or 

 membranous. Seeds few or many, turgid ; testa crustaceous, albumen copious. 

 DISTEIB. Species 4 or 5, natives of the Himalaya, Java, N.E. Asia, and N. 

 America. 



1. N. thyrsiflora, Don Prodr. 228; stipules usually serrate, racemes 

 slender panicled, bracteoles usually toothed, calyx silky. DC. Prodr. ii. 546 ; 

 Wall. Cat. 698 ; Hook. f. $ Thorns, 'in Journ. Linn. Soc. ii. 75. N. virgata, 

 Wall. Cat. 7108. Adenilema fallax, Slume Sijd. 1121. 



Central and Eastern TEMPERATE HIMALAYA, alt. 5-8000 ft. KHASIA MTS., alt. 

 5-7000 ft. DISTRIB. Java. 



A large shrub, -with drooping slender leafy branches. Leaves 2 by l in., ovate- 

 cordate, 3-lobed ; lobes shallow, acute, sharply irregularly toothed or serrate. Panicles 

 3-8 in. Flowers 'shortly pedicelled. Calyx-tube | in., base roundel ; lobes shorter 

 than the tube, lanceolate, acute, in fruit often clothed -with long rigid gland-tipped 

 bristles. Petals small, white, oblong or obcordate. Fruit inclosed in the calyx, of 1 

 carpel. 



2. N. rubiflora, Don Prodr. 229 ; racemes solitary or shortly panicled, 

 stipules and bracteoles usually quite entire, calyx tomentose. DC. Prodr. ii. 

 547; Hook.f. Sf Thorns, in Journ. Linn. Soc. ii. 75; Wall. Cat. 697. 



Central and Eastern TEMPERATE HIMALAYA; Nipal, Wallich; Sikkim, alt. 8-10, 000 

 ft,, J. D. H. 



.Very similar to N. thyrsiflora in foliage, but leaves usually more deeply lobed ; 

 inflorescence always much shorter, petals larger, and calyx tomentose. 



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