Pblmna.J VERBESACE2E. 221 



A shrub or mil] tree with dark-grey bark. Leave* 3-7 in. long, oblong or 

 ovate, acuminate, obtuse or subcordato in fruit, usually distinctly 

 toothed, sometimes with only a few teeth toward* the apex," pubernloua 

 on both surfaces when young, nearly glabrous on upper surface when 

 mature ; main lateral nerves 6 pairs ; veins reticulate, d irk, conspicu- 

 ous ; petiole 1 in. long or mora Corymb* rather dense, l-'JJ in. in 

 diatn.. villous, glabrescent in fruit ; bracts small, linear, deciduous. 

 Calyn ,'.. in. long, subequally 4 toothed, glabrous or paberuloua ; 

 teeth oblong, obtuse, enlarged and ribbed in fruit. Corolla £-^ in. long, 

 throat hairy within. Vrupe £ in. in diam., globose or subovoid, glabrous, 

 subverruc 



Sub-Himalayan tracts from Dehra Dun eastwards. Distrib. Outer 

 Himalayan ranges from the Chenab eastwards to Bhutan up to 5,000 ft. ; 

 also in Assam. Bengal, the Central Prov. and Upper Burma. 



3. P. herbacea, Rocb. Mori. Benn. 46; Fl. Ind. iii, ,90,- Brandts For. Fl. 

 868 : Ind. ZYett 511 .- F. B. I. iv, 591 ; Watt E. D. ; Kan/ilul, For. Fl. 264 ; 

 Gamhlp Van Ind. Ti.nh. 535; Pr.iin Bena. Pi. 831. P. pygnuea. Wall; 

 Royle III. 299. 



A small almost st^mloss undershrub. Flowering branches 1-4 in. long, 

 springing up annually after the iungle fires. Leaves 1-5 in long, in 

 rosettes of 2 or 3 pairs, lying flat on the ground, sessile, obovate, 

 obtuse, enneate at the base, margins coarsely serrate, nerves pubescent ; 

 upper surface (when mature) minutely gland-dotted, the lower clothed 

 with very small deciduous hairs. Flotvers in paduncled cymes 

 arranged in terminal somewhat dense pubescent corymbs H in. in diam. 

 Calyx | in. long, subequally 5-toothed, closely pubescent ; lobes ovate, 

 obtuse. Corolla pale-yellow or greenish, }\ in- long, throat hairy inside, 

 limb obscurely 2-lipped, lobes 4 Urupe \ in. in diam., globose, black 

 when ripe. 



Dehra Dun an 1 in the Sub-Himalayan tracts of Rohilkhand and X. Oudh. 

 Flowers Feb.-May. Di-trib. Subtrop. Himalaya from Kashmir to 

 Bhutan, usually in open grassy places : also in Bengal and in the 

 Sikkim Terai, extending to the southern portion of the W. Peninsula. 

 A good example of a plant belonging to a genus mostly represented by 

 trees or shrubs, and which his become permanently dwarfed by contin- 

 uous exposure to periodical fires. 



3. V1TEX, Linn. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. iv, 683. 



Tiees or shrubs; youni: shoots hairy or tomentoee. Leaves 

 opposite, digitately 3-5-foliolate (often simple in 7~. trifoh'a). 

 blo'cers in peduneled or se>si e cymes forming terminal and axillary 

 or wholly axillary panicles or corymbs ; bracts small, longer or 

 shorter than the calyx Calyx carupanulate, truncate or shortly 5- 

 rarely 3-toothed. Corolla small, 2-lipped, tube short, limb 5-lobed, 



