106 Mr. BakIxdrox's Descriptions of Indian Species 
and axillary, solitary, or sometimes 2 together, one of which is nearly 
sessile. Fruit triangular, covered by the subagglutinated calyx, its faces 
elliptical, pointed, granulated and opake. 
Nearly related to P. humile, Meisn. (microcephalum, Don), but differs from 
it by having only one nearly simple stem from a fibrous root; the flowers 
8-androus, the fruit 3-angular, the leaves glabrous, and the bractez glandular. 
It agrees with P. perforatum, Don, in all respects, except by not having glands 
at the base of its stipules. 
Mussooree. 
17. P. nepalense. Meisn. 
* Capitulis folio sessili cordato suffultis, pedunculis geminis, bracteis subsca- 
riosis ochreisque muticis glabris, floribus 6-andris semidigynis, calycis 
limbo 4-fido, achenio compresso faciebus convexis eleganter reticulato- 
scrobiculatis, foliis summis sessilibus oblongis cordato-amplexicaulibus, 
inferiorum limbo ovato acuminato e basi subcordata in petiolum quasi 
alatum decurrente auriculato-semiamplexicauli, subtis glandulis immersis 
subpellucidis parcé punctato." Meisn. 
P. nepalense. Meisn. in Wall. iii. 59. 
«. glabrum, Meisn. “ Foliis utrinque glabris, capitulis plerumque distincté pe- 
dunculatis.” Meisn. 
P. nepalense. Meisn. Mon. 84. t. vii. f. 2. 
8. scabridum, Meisn. * Foliis in nervis subtis hirtellis margine subciliatis, 
capitulis sessilibus aut brevissime pedunculatis.” Meisn. 
Stem erect, glabrous, more or less branched. Leaves on the upper part of the 
Stem, cordate-acuminate, sessile, the lower ones subcordate-acute, nar- 
rowed suddenly into a broadly-winged petiole, which is auricled and 
amplexicaul, the under surface of all the leaves marked with numerous 
pellucid immersed glandular dots; in var. v. they are glabrous; in var. 8. 
the upper surface is covered with scattered hairs, the nerves beneath are 
hairy, and the margins are fringed with minute Spinous hairs. Stipules 
rather long, blunt, glabrous, with a few hairs at their base. Flowers 
