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3. P. maderaspatensis, Linn. Sp. Pl. 982; Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii, 
654; F. B. I. v, 292; Watt E. D.; Frain Beng. Pl. 935 ; Cooke 
Fl. Bomb. ii, 586. P. obcordatus, Willd.; Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii, 656.— 
Vern. Hazarmani. 
A glabrous annual but occasionally often with a woody roofstock. 
Stems erect, 1-3 ft., ascending or decumbent below. Leaves scattered, 
}-1} in. long, cuneate, ovate, with a rounded truncate or subcordate 
and mucronate apex, tapering at the base into the very short petiole, 
glaucous beneath, the lateral nerves few and rather conspicuous ; 
stipules membranous, peltate, acute. Flowers axillary; males 
minute, in small clusters, subsessile ; females solitary and longer, 
shortly stalked. Sepals 6, obovate, rounded at the apex, green 
margined with white. Stamens 3, filaments connate ; anthers erect 
and with vertical slits. Styles 3, minute, free, 2-lobed. Capsule 4-1 in. 
in diam., depressed-globose, 3-lobed, glabrous. Seeds ,'; in., trigon- 
ous, rounded on the back, muriculate in fine lines, glabrous. 
Dehra Dun (Edgeworth), Malwa, in black soil (Edgeworth). Dzistris. : 
Drier parts of India from Bengal and C. India to 8. India and Ceylon ; 
also in Trop. Africa, Java, China and Australia. 
4,P.urinaria, Linn. Sp. Pl. 982; Roxb. Fl. Ind. tir, 660; 
F. B. I. v, 293 ; Watt BE. D.; Prain Beng. Pl. 935 ; Cooke Fl. Bomb. 
ii, 587. 
An annual or rarely perennial, glabrous or nearly’so. Stems erect; 
branches few, often tinged with red ; branchlets flattened and slightly 
winged, minutely hispid at the angles. Leaves sessile, distichously 
imbricate, }-} in. long, oblong or linear-oblong, tip rounded or apicu- 
late, pale beneath, glabrous or the margins minutely hispid; base 
rounded, usually oblique ; stipules peltate, acute from a broad base. 
Flowers minute, solitary, subsessile. Sepals green, ciliolate, t!ose 
of the males suborbicular ; of the females oblong, not enlarge! in 
fruit. Filaments very shortly connate ; anthers erect, the slits verti- 
cal, . Capsule } in. in diam., globose, obscurely lobed, echinate. Needs 
trigonous, rounded on the back, transversely furrowed. 
5. P. simplex, Retz. Obs. Lot, fasc. v, 29; Roxb. Fl. Ind. iit, 
654; F. B. I. v, 295 ; Watt BE. D.; Collett. Fl. Siml. 450; Frain 
Beng. Pl. 936 ; Cooke Fl. Bomb. ii, 587. 
A glabrous perennial herb or an undershrub, very variable, usually 
with a long tap-root; branches flattened. Leaves many, distichous 
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