102 Mr. Basineton’s Descriptions of Indian Species 
placed generally 2 together, and aggregated at the summit of the stem in | 
an imperfectly cymose manner ; bracteze acute, glabrous, not glandular, 
inclosing several flowers; flowers 4-fid, the segments blunt, 6.androus, 
semi-2-gynous, the pedicels jointed just below the flower. Fruit lenti- 
cular, the faces round and acute, smooth, shining. 
Mussooree in August ; and valleys in the hills during the rains. 
12. P. simlense. 
Spicis paniculatis pedunculatis ovato-oblongis multifloris, pedunculis glandu- 
losis, bracteis turbinato-infundibuliformibus parvis 2—3-floris pedicellis 
aequalibus, floribus 4-fidis 6-andris semi-2-gynis, achenii lenticulari calyce 
absconditi faciebus planis nitidis minutissimè granulatis, ochreis cylindri- 
cis muticis glabris, foliis lanceolatis costa setoso-scabrá excepta glabris 
margine scabro-ciliatis, caule erecto subsimplici fistuloso glabro in parte 
superiori glanduloso. : 
P. simlense. Royle MSS. 
Stem erect, nearly leafless above, branched only near to the top, hollow, gla- 
brous below, the upper part, the branches, and the peduncles covered 
with minute stalked glands. Leaves lanceolate, acute at both ends, 
glabrous, with the exception of the midrib, which is covered with mi- 
nute scabrous hairs, the margin fringed with small scabrous hairs point- 
ing forwards, narrowed below into a very short and slightly winged 
stalk. Stipules rather long, cylindrical, glabrous, bluntly and trans- 
versely truncate. Flowers in oblong-ovate dense many-flowered stalked 
and panicled spikes, the bracteæ obliquely funnel-shaped, glabrous, 
small, 2- or 3-flowered, about equal to the pedicels, which are jointed 
just below the flower; flowers 4-fid, the segments blunt; stamens 6, 
about equal to the calyx; style deeply bifid. Fruit lenticular, com- 
pressed, its faces orbicular, slightly acute, Shining, and very minutely 
granulated. 
Simla in August. 
13. P. glabrum. Willd. 
“ Spicis paniculatis strictis continuis laxè cylindricis elongatis multifloris, 
