94 Mr. Basineton’s Descriptions of Indian Species 
not thought it necessary to characterise the genera and sections, and must 
refer to that work for full descriptions of them. I will not trouble the society 
with any further observations, but proceed at once to the description of the 
species. 
Potyconum. Linn. 
Sect. 1. Bistorta. Meisn. 
1. P. bulbiferum. 
Spica compacta dens basi interruptà laxiusculà, bracteis ovatis acuminatis 
subinoisis, staminibus calyce brevioribus filamentis post anthesin elon- 
gatis, stylis 2 rariùs 3 calyce duplò longioribus, achenio calycis longitudine 
lenticulari faciebus rotundato-acuminatis minute granulato-striatis sub- 
opacis, foliis caulinis subsessilibus lanceolatis radicalibus petiolatis ellip- 
ticis vel elliptico-lanceolatis omnibus in margine revoluto costato-cre- 
natis. 
P. bulbiferun. Royle MSS. 
Stem simple, striated, smooth, from two inches to more than a foot in height, 
springing from a thick perennial woody rhizoma. Leaves elliptical, often 
so short as to be nearly round, and others on the same plant so much 
elongated as to appear lanceolate, upon long stalks ; their margins revo- 
lute and marked with a series of short elevated transverse stria, so as to 
appear crenulated, the under side slightly downy, the cauline leaves lan- 
ceolate and sessile. Stipules long, cylindrical, splitting laterally and 
dilated at their top, with numerous nerves which are finely scabrous, or 
rather, towards the top, very minutely spinoso-pubescent. Flowers small, 
white, in dense compact spikes, the lower parts of which are more or less 
elongated and interrupted, and bear small bulb-like bodies in the place 
of fruit; the true flowers are 5-fid, the segments obtuse, stamens 8, the 
filaments of which before the anthers burst are much shorter than the 
calyx, afterwards they elongate until they nearly equal the styles which 
are twice the length of the calyx, and usually two, but in some cases 
three in number; bractez longer than the pedicels, acuminate, obliquely 
truncate and cut; the pedicels jointed just below the flower. Fruit 
rather large, lenticular, compressed, the faces nearly round and pointed, 
