268 The Flowering Plants of Western India. 



long terminal spikes, 2 together below, crowded above, sepals 

 greenish-white, woolly, nerved, stamens pink, awns yellow, 

 utricles large, roundish. 



Nasik, common. Guzerat and Kattiawar (D.). It is very prickly 

 and clinging in fruit. 



* P. atropurpurea, described as common in Guzerat, has foliage 

 dark-green, awns long, dark-purple, sepals and bracts broad, ovate, 

 woolly. * P. orbiculata, spreading procumbent, leaves very broad, 

 roundish, narrow at the base, spikes stout, clusters round, woolly, 

 awns long and brown. Ghauts (D.). 



5. 



N. brachiata (JErua b. D.). Smooth, erect or procumbent, 

 stems furrowed, leaves oval oblong entire, spikes short blunt, 3 

 or 4 often joined at the base, flowers white, bracts broad ovate, 

 persistent. 



Panch Mahals. Sind and the Konkan (#.). It is very like the 

 next, but smooth. 



6. J3RUA. 



jE. lanata. Small whitish, branched, leaves oval or roundish, 

 spikes short, solitary or 2 or 3 together, anthers yellow. Kdpur 

 madhurd. 



Poona. A common weed (.). 



JE. Javanica, two or three feet high, branched, leaves lanceolate, 

 oblong, spikes long, flowers white, style and stigma long. Cambay 

 (D.), Deccan (S.). * JE. scandens, a climbing undershrub, leaves 

 lanceolate, spikes round, ovate, or pyramidal, flowers whitish. 

 Konkan, Stocks (H.). * M. monsonia, much-branched, prostrate or 

 ascending, leaves linear, opposite or whorled, sessile, spikes solitary, 

 ovate or cylindric, flowers pink, shining. Konkan and Deccan (H.). 



7. ACHYRANTHES. 



A. aspera. Tall, erect, much-branched, ash-coloured and 

 hairy, leaves obovate rounded, waved, soft above, spikes very 

 long, twiggy, flowers shining, tinged red, pointing downwards, 

 sepals and fruit rough and bristly. Agdra, Surdta, Khar- 

 manjari. 



Poona and the Konkan. A common weed (0.). Mahableshwar 

 (Birdwood), who calls it the burr plant. Throughout India and Ceylon 

 (H.). He has 3 varieties and calls the leaves extremely variable. 



* A. Udentata, " may prove a form of the last " (//.), but has 

 bracteoles reduced to spines with scarcely a blade, or with a minute 

 auricle on each side of the base, and staminodes not fringed. Not 

 in D. or 0. Konkan (ff.). 



