108 Mr. Basineton’s Descriptions of Indian Species 
lignoso ramoso cum ochreis foliisque pube purpurascente hispidulo."— 
Meisn. 
P. capitatum. Don, Prod. 73. Meisn. Mon. 82. 
P. repens. Meisn. in Wall. 60. 
Stem proeumbent, rooting, woody, hispid, reddish. Leaves ovate or elliptical, 
acute, more or less downy on both sides, ciliated, the petioles very short, 
with 2 auricles which are very often fugacious. Stipules blunt, more or 
less hairy, ciliated. Flowers small, 5-sepalous, 8-androus, semitrigynous, 
with paleaceous acute bracteæ, in small compact heads, mostly two toge- 
ther, one of them often nearly sessile. Fruit trigonous, the faces ovate- 
acute, opake, and very minutely granulated, the calyx slightly agglutinated 
to the fruit. 
Mutrogh and Hills in May. 
20. P. sinuatum. 
Capitulis solitariis, pedunculis glabris, bracteis ovatis obtusis, floribus 5-andris 
semitrigynis laciniis obtusis, achenio triquetro, ochreis glabris vel parcè 
pilosis, foliis lyratis lobo terminali rhomboideo, petiolo basi biauriculato, 
caule ramoso. 
P. sinuatum. Royle MSS. 
Stem procumbent, branched, striated, glabrous, reddish, the internodes very 
long. Leaves glabrous, runcinate, the terminal lobe, the largest rhomboid, 
or approaching to triangular acute, and about one inch both in length 
and width, the lateral lobes about three upon each side blunt, the auri- 
cles small and blunt. Stipules obtuse, glabrous, or very slightly hairy. 
Flowers in dense globose heads upon longish stalks, segments of the 
calyx 5, obtuse and rounded. rather longer than the 5 stamens, sub- 
trigynous, the bractez ovate obtuse. Fruit3 
-gonous, the angles rounded, 
the faces very convex and shining. 
This is a most interesting species, P. runcinatum, Ham., having been the 
only plant belonging to this genus known to have runcinate leaves. Our plant 
Bay be distinguished from P. runcinatum, which is fully described by Meisner 
in Wall. Plant. Asiat. Rar. iii, 60, by its much smaller size; the terminal lobe 
