422 !rETrvA.vr>KiA MON-oGYNiA. "Phmtaga* 



prescribed by our medical gentlemen in India, where emollients are 

 wanted. They are also used by the native practitioners in medicine 

 and are to be met with for sale in the Bazars of India under the 

 Persian name JJspagool. 



2. P. attenuata, Wall. 



Leaves lanceolate, ending in a bluntish acumen, tapering at both 

 ends, with a few remote toothlets, smooth, five-nerved, decurrent 

 on their short petiole, the base of which is woolly. Scape five-sided, 

 snlcated, much longer than the leaves, with adpressed hairs. Spike 

 cylindric, dense ; bractes acuminate ; cali/x four-leaved, ciliate. 



Specimens collected along the fields about Katmandu were com- 

 snunicated to me by the Hon. E. Gardner. Flowering time the hot 

 season . 



Root thick, sending forth a number of long ash-coloured fibres ; 

 immediately within the insertion of the leaves and on the inner sur- 

 face of the base of their petiols there is a quantity of long whitish 



wool Leaves from three to four inches long, nearly an inch broad, 



slightly oblique, terminating in a short cylindric, somewhat thickened 

 point, with a few unequally remote obtuse sub-glandular toothlets, 

 quite smooth, decurrent on the short flattish striated petioles, the 

 base of which widens a good deal and is woolly within. — Scapes 

 several, erect, slender, several times longer than the leaves, from 

 one to three feet high, five-cornered, striated, while young thickly 

 beset with greyish adpressed hairs, becoming much smoother when 

 o\d. —Spike from one to three inches long, cylindric, densely cover- 

 ed with ash-coloured flowers.— i^/ac^^s membranaceous, ovate, acu- 

 minate, sn^ooth, keeled. — Calj/x unequally four-leaved, nearly trans- 

 parent, slightly ciliated and tipped with a few white hairs. Corolla 

 tubular, with reflected ovate acute lacinia; and a prominent mouth. 

 — Sti/le very long and villous. 



Obs. This tall and slender species comes very near to P. eriosla" 

 chya and altissima, Jacqu. ; from the former it difi'ers in the smooth- 

 ness of its leaves and form of the spike, and smooth bractes ; from 



