ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS. 



P. 3. Schizandra grandifiora, H. f. and Th. ; Fl. Ind. i. 44. Syn. Kadsura 

 grandijbra, Wall. Tent. Fl. Nep. t. 1 4 (Magnoliacece). A glabrous climbing 

 shrub, without stipules, with white, fragrant, drooping axillary flowers ; ovaries 

 numerous, imbricated on a conical receptacle, which lengthens in fruit into a 

 cylindrical fleshy axis, 6-9 in. long, bearing numerous scarlet, fleshy, 2-seeded 

 carpels. Himalaya, Sutlej to Bhutan, between 6000 and 10,000 ft. Fl. April, 

 May ; fr. Oct. The fruit is eaten. 



P. 3, line 17 from below, dele " gynophore stalked." 



P. 3 4 read " carpels in a loose stalked spike," instead of 



"capsules sessile on an elongated stalk." 



P. 5. Polyalthia cerasoides, Benth. & Hook. Prome district, S. Kurz. 



P. 8. Stephania rotunda. Lour. ; Hook. Fl. Ind. i. 103. Syn. Gocculus 

 Boxburghianus,Wall. Cissampelos glabra, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 840. Menisper- 

 macece. Vern. Gajera, garjial, Kamaon. A large glabrous climber with a sub- 

 globose tuberous root. Leaves peltate, broad-ovate or suborbicular, often repand 

 or sinuate-lobed, pale beneath, 3-7 in. ctiam. Flowers yellow, in axillary cymose 

 umbels. Male flowers : sepals 6-10, narrow-cuneate, biseriate, petals 3-5, obo- 

 vate, anthers 6, connate, inserted round the top of the staminal column, burst- 

 ing transversely. Female flowers : sepals 3-6, petals of the male. Drupe glab- 

 rous, endocarp compressed, horseshoe-shaped, dorsally tubercled, sides hollowed 

 and perforated. Seed almostTannular. N.W. Himalaya, ascending to 7000 ft. 

 Kasia hills, Burma. Fl. April-June. For the structure of the wood see Hooker 

 & Thomson, Flora Indica (1855), p. 195. 



P. 8. Tinospora cordifolia, Miers. Vern. Gurcha, Kamaon. 



P. 8. Under Anamirta Cocczdus. For a full description of this climber, see 

 Wallich, Descriptions of Indian Plants in Asiat. Researches, xiii. 403. 



P. 10. Cissampelos Pareira, Linn. Vern. Pari, Kamaon. The botanical 

 origin of the various stems and roots known as Pareira Brava and Radix Par- 

 eirae has lately been investigated by D. Hanbury (Pharm. Journ. 1873, Aug. 

 2d and 9th). The result is, that the drug is not yielded by this plant. One of 

 the best kinds is the root of Chondodendron tomentosum, Ruiz and Pavon, a 

 large climber of the same Family in Brazil, with bunches of large oval berries. 



P. 12. Berberis asiatica, Roxb. Vern. Kilmora, kingora, Kamaon. 



P. 12. B. Lycium, Royle. Vern. Kingora. 



P. 12. B. nepalensis, Spreng. Vern. Pande kilmora, chotara, cliotra, Ka- 

 maon. Hardy against walls in England. 



P. 13. Holboellia latifolia, Wall. Syn. Stauntonia latifolia and S. angus- 

 tifolia, Wall. Vern. Gophla, Kamaon. The fruit is eaten. 



P. 14. Capparis aphylla. A common and characteristic shrub of Soudan, 



