104 Mr. Basineton’s Descriptions of Indian Species 
dibus glabriusculis subtüs in nervis tantüm parcé hispidulis margine 
molliter ciliatis, spicis raris." Meisn. 
P. Posumbu. Don, Prod. 71. Meisn. Mon. 73. | 
Stem smooth, glabrous, slender, hollow, decumbent, rooting, the extremities 
ascending, branched. Leaves broadly lanceolate, equally attenuated at 
both ends, acute, glabrous, with the exception of the midrib beneath, 
which is covered with adpressed hairs, the margin ciliated with minute 
hairs pointing forwards, both surfaces covered with minute prominent 
points, sometimes very shortly stalked, but more commonly sessile. 
Stipules moderate, with numerous adpressed hairs, fringed with the long 
stiff setose points of the excurrent nerves. Flowers small, in slender 
few-flowered lax spikes, commonly 2 together; the bracteæ small, slen- 
der, and fringed with long stiff setose points, about 2-flowered, the 
lowest bractea very distant from the next; flowers 5-fid, 8-androus, 
semi-3-gynous ; pedicels jointed just below the flower. Fruit 3-quetrous, 
its faces broadly ovate and acute, smooth but opake. 
Mussooree, in August. 
Sect. 4. CEPHALOPHILON. Meisn. 
Subsect. 1, Didymocephalon. Meisn. 
15. P. filicaule. Wall. 
“ Capitulis exiguis foliis 1—3 suffultis subsessilibus solitariis geminisque, 
bracteis paleaceis inconspicuis, floribus 8-andris semitrigynis, achenio 
triquetro calycem subsuperante angulis acutiusculis faciebus nitidulis 
tenerrimè puncticulatis, calyce profunde 5-fido patulo, ochreis brevibus 
laxis foliisque utrinque depressè pilosis ciliatis, caule debili simplici 
glabro." Meisn. | | 
P. filicaule. Meisn. in Wall. iii. 39. | 
8. extenuatum. Meisn. “ Caule pedali simplicissimo filiform; strigis exiguis 
reflexo-adpressis parce asperulo apice sæpiùs bifido, foliis parvis ovatis 
rariüs oblongis basi rotundatis aut abruptè in petiolum brevem attenua- 
tis." Meisn. 
P. filicaule, 8. extenuatum. Meisn. in Wall. iii. 59. 
