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 Lc, 171, 172. 



" Western Peninsula, from the Concan southwards. Ceylon, Walker. 

 ' Stems 6-10 in., branching from the base, glabrous pilose or pubescent. Leaves i-2i 

 by xV"i ^"-j acuminate, margins thickened, costa prominent beneath, npper euriace 

 often shining. Racemes 3-5 in., laxly many-flowered. Flowers ^ in., yellow; pedicels 

 slender; bracts nnnute Outer sepals subequal; wings equalling the corolla, falcate, 

 obovate or hatchet-shaped, acute obtuse or acuminate. Capsule didymous, narrower 

 upwards, narrowly winged, notched, glabrous. Seeds villous ; strophiole galeate, appen- 

 dages 3, very small. — jP, Wigldiana is the narrower leaved form. 



12. P. chinensis, Linn. ; annual, erect or diffuse, leaves from orbi- 

 cular-oblong or obcordate to narrow linear, racemes short axillary and 

 extra-axillary dense-flowered, flowers horizontal or pendulous, outer sepals 

 small ovate, wings very oblique acute. P. arvensis, Willd. Sj)* BL ni. 87o, 

 DO. Frod. i. 326 ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 218 ; W. & A. Prodr. i. 36 ; Thwam 

 Enum. 400. % P. prostrata, Willd. I.e. 896 j DC. Lc. 333. P. Kothiaua, )V. a; A. 

 Prodr. i. 37 ; Ilassk. in Mia. Ann. Mns. i. 162. P. Tranquebanca, 

 Mart ex Ub. Wight. 135 ; W.J^ A. Prodr. i. 37. P. glaucoides,jr^^^^^^^^ 

 Wall. Cat. 4171 {not of Linn.). P. graudiflora, Eb. Wight., Wall Cat^^^ 

 P. brachystachya, DC. Lc. 326 {not of Blume). P. procuuibens, Both, i\ov^ 

 >S>. 329; DCJ.cZm. P. exigua, //assA;. Z.c. 173. 



Throughout India, from the Punjab to Pegu, and in the Western Peninsula, and 

 Ceylon. — Distrib. Trop. Asia and Australia. . . , 



A most variable, usually procumbent, leafy, rather stout herb ; 3-10 in. high, ^^^^^^^ 

 or pubescent. Leaves excessively variable, |-2 in. long, sometimes quite obcordate, ^^ 

 others almost orbicular, rather thick and coriaceous, glabrous, ciliate, hoary, or P" , 

 cent, margins usually flat, opaque. Racemes much shorter than the leaves, ^^"^^f J 

 aliaost capitate. Flowers \~\\x\.]or\^. Wings longer than the suborbicular notco^^ 

 ciliate narrowly winged cap.^ule, green, falcate, obovate, acute, margins membrano^ 

 Crest of corolla often small. Sc'ds silky ; strophiole with 3 very short aPP^"j*f ^^^'jjg 

 Liimaius having described the crest as unbearded, this was not identified by D^J^^ ^° _ 

 with Willdenow's arvensis^ but was placed in another section of the genus. ■''.. J™j. 

 cimens in the Linn. Herb, are however decisive. It is linked by either intermtai*^^ 

 mimicking forms with various other species. . 1 aves 



Var. triflora, Linn. {Sp.\ racemt^s elongate, sometimes twice as lonp: as the e . 

 lax-flowered. P. multibracteata, IF«/Z. Cat. 4174, P. ramosa, Hh. Wight., ^'^^^^a' 

 4177. P. ciliata, Hh. Wight. P. Kleiuii, Hassk, in Miq, Ann. Mus. I IbB.-^^"" ^ 

 in the Western Peninsula, 



Var. brachystach}ja, Blume Bijd. 59 (5/>., not of DC.) ; stems very slender pr ^ ^^^ 

 leaves very narrow glabrous, racemes very slender fe-v^-flowered, flowers minute, t7 „ 

 l.no^. HassL in Miq. Ann Mus. i. 157. Malacca, Griffith. Western Peninsula ^ \'^ 

 liUhvR, Heyne in Herb. Wight.) (Java).— Perhaps a distinct species, the tlowerb 

 remarkably small and the habit is peculiar. 



13. P. rosmarinlfolia, W. d: A. Prodr. i. 37 ; annual, stems manj 

 sleaJer erect or decumbent, leaves narrovv^ linear, racemes .^^K ^ g^-ect, 

 extra-axillary short erect few-flowered, flowers shortly P^^^^^| ^^^iiiate. 

 outer sepals acute, wings obliquely obovate acuminate, capsules '- 

 Thwaites Enum. 22. 400. P. Tranquebarica, Wight in Wall i^<^h ^^j. 

 ?P. Arnottiana, Steud. Nomend. 370; HaA in Miq. Ann, ^^^- x,na to 

 P. triflora, Uassk. lc. 175 {not Linn.). P. linarifolia, Heyne accoroius 

 Hassk.lx. . ;. 



Southern parts of the Western Peninsula and Ceylon. , labrous ^r 



Stems many from the root, 4-18 in., twicrgv, nubescent. Leaves ^-2 in.^ gi^ 



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