ADDITIONS AND COERECTIONS, VOL. Y. 



P. 102. MYBISTICA. Since the publication of the Indian species of this genus 

 in 1886, a good many additional specimens have been received, including twelve 

 species from Singapore, collected by the late Mr. Cantley. Most of them are known 

 species, but the following two are such remarkable novelties, that though I am 

 unable to refer them to their sections of the genus, I think it desirable to make 

 them known. 



M. PENDTJLINA, Hook.f. ; branchlets very long and young leaves beneath and 

 panicles finely rusty-tomentose, leaves 10-14 by 2-3 in. close-set subsessile pendu- 

 lous linear acuminate, nerves 30-50 pairs, fern, panicles 3-4 in. very robust, flowers 

 shortly stoutly pedicelled \ in. long ellipsoid glabrous shortly 2-fid, ovary ovoid 

 glabrous, stigma terminal minute sessile. 



SINGAPOBE, Cantley. 



A tree ; branches spreading, 15 ft. long, as thick as the fore-finger at the base, 

 slender towards the tip, clothed throughout with crowded leaves ; bark black when 

 dry, except at the tips. Leaves rather coriaceous, old glabrous beneath, base 

 cuneate or rounded, narrowed into a very short broad petiole. Fem.fl. thickly 

 coriaceous, ebracteate. This very remarkable species resembles in the leaf M. 

 sylvestris, Houtt., of Ternate, but the nerves are far more numerous. 



M. SPH.ERTJLA, Hook.f. j branches slender furrowed, tips and leaf-nerves 

 beneath and inflorescence and fruit very finely tawny-tomentose, leaves 3-5 by f-1^ in. 

 petioled narrowly linear-oblong acuminate subsilvery glaucous beneath with 10-16 

 pairs of very slender nerves, female fl. shortly pedicelled racemose on short very stout 

 rugosely scarred simple peduncles urceolate 3-fid, ovary broadly ovoid silky nar- 

 rowed into a short style with a lacerate stigma, fruit small spherical. 



MALACCA, Cantley. 



A tree, 20 ft. high. Leaves thinly coriaceous, shining above, midrib and nerves 

 beneath reddish, base acute ; petiole slender, 5 | in. flowering peduncles nu- 

 merous, axillary, and on the branches ^-f in. long, j in. diam., straight, closely 

 scarred from the base to the tip (as if continuously growing and flowering at the 

 tips). Fern. fl. in. long ; pedicels as long. Fruit exactly globose, about in. 

 diam., apiculate. Native name, Chindarah Fadi. 



P. 136. MACHILUS. 



The loan from Dr. King of the rich collection of Machili in the Herbarium of 

 the Eoyal Gardens, Calcutta, enables me to define better many of the species of this 

 very perplexing genus. It leaves, however, more than it accomplishes towards finally 

 discriminating the Indian species. 



* Fruit oblong or ellipsoid. Flower quite glabrous. 



1. M. ODORATISSIMA, Nees in part (p. 139); branchlets and young leaves 

 beneath glabrous or slightly silky, leaves 4-6 in. elliptic-lanceolate impressed 

 punctate, nerves 7-13 pairs, panicles shorter than the leaves and flowers and fila- 

 ments quite glabrous, fruit i~ in. long. 



TEMPEBATE HIMALAYA from Kashmir and Hazara eastwards, alt. 5-7000 ft., to 

 Bhotan, iasceiiding to 8000 ft. in Sikkim. KHASIA MTS,, alt. 5-6000 ft. MARTABAN, 

 alt. 3-7000 ft., Kurz. 



Of Wallich's Lauwts odoratissima (Cat. 2607), as described by Nees under 

 Machilus (Plant. As. Ear. ii. 70), letter A, from .Nepal is in bud only. The 

 panicle and buds are silkily pubescent, and it is possibly a large-leaved form of M. 

 bombycina. B from Chercooliein the Deyra Dhoun (Kumaon),with perfectly glabrous 

 panicle and old flowers and oblong fruit, is what I believe Wallich intended for 



