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3. P. maderaspatensis. Linn. Sp. PL 982 ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. in, 

 654 ; F. B. I. v, 292 ; Watt E. D.; Prain Beng. PL 935 ; Cooke 

 FL Bomb, ii, 586. P. obcordatus, Willd.; Roxb. Fl. Ind. m, 656. 

 Vern. Hazarmani. 



A glabrous annual but occasionally often with a woody rootstoek. 

 Stems erect, 1-3 ft., ascending or decumbent below. Leaves scattered, 

 J-1J 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 J-J 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). DISTRIB. : 

 Drier parts of India from Bengal and C. India to S. India and Ceylon ; 

 also in Trop. Africa, Java, China and Australia. 



4. P. urinaria, Linn. Sp. PL 982 ; Roxb. FL Ind. iii 9 660 ; 

 F. B. I. v, 293 ; Watt E. 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, J-J 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, ciliolato, those 

 of the males suborbicular ; of the females oblong, not enlarge 1 in 

 fruit. Filaments very shortly connate ; anthers erect, the slits verti- 

 cal. Capsule in. in diam., globose, obscurely lobed, eohinate. Needs 

 trigonous, rounded on the back, transversely furrowed. 



5. P, simplex, Retz. Obs. Eot. fasc. v, 29 ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. Hi, 

 654; F. B. I. v, 295; Watt E. 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 



