100 Mr. Baxineton’s Descriptions of Indian Species 
Stem erect, branched, woody, hollow, striated, covered with woolly pubes- 
cence. Leaves lanceolate, acute, the margins slightly reflexed, covered 
with short woolly down on both sides, but much more thickly under- 
neath. Stipules not ciliated in our specimens, rather long, blunt, co- 
vered with short hoary pubescence. Flowers in longish, narrow, cylin- 
drical, dense panicled spikes, with woolly peduncles; bracteæ ovate- 
acute (as described by Meisner in his Monog.), finely pubescent, about 
2-flowered, nearly equal to the pedicels, which are jointed just below the 
flower ; flowers small, 4 or 5-fid; the segments blunt; stamens 8; style 
divided half-way down into 2 or 3 parts. Fruit lenticular, compressed, 
its faces round and pointed, smooth, shining. 
Rana Serai. October. 
9. P. hispidum. Don. 
Spicis virgatis geminatis continuis, pedunculis firmis dens? pilosis eglandulo- 
sis, bracteis imbricatis turbinatis pilosis longé barbatis pedicellos supe- 
rantibus, floribus 8-andris semi-3-gynis; calyce 5-fido subeglanduloso 
extüs pubescente, achenii triquetri faciebus levibus, ochreis longis pilosis 
longè setoso-ciliatis, foliis elongato-lanceolatis utrinque attenuatis ad- 
pressé denséque hispidis, caule erecto adpresso-hispido. 
P. hispidum. Don, Prod. 71. 
Stem erect, thickly covered with rather long adpressed hairs. Leaves elongate- 
lanceolate, narrowed at both ends, the margin slightly revolute, covered 
on both sides with short closely adpressed hairs. 
truncate, densely covered with hair, setose-cili 
slender cylindrical spikes, | 
Stipules long, obliquely 
ated. Flowers in long 
two together; bracteae strongly ciliated, longer 
than the pedicels, which are jointed just below the flower; flowers small, 
their segments blunt, slightly hairy on the outside and somewhat glan- 
dular, 8-androus, semi-3-gynous. Fruit triquetrous, smooth, shining. 
Gathered on the banks of the Ganges, Aug. 1817. 
10. P. barbatum. Linn. 
Spicis pedunculatis virgatis geminatis continuis, bracteis turbinatis subremo- 
