102 Mr. Babington's Descriptions of Indian Species 



placed generally 2 together, and aggregated at the summit of the stem in 

 an imperfectly cymose manner ; bractese acute, glabrons, not glandular, 

 inclosing several flowers; flowers 4-fid, the segments blunt, 6-androus, 

 semi-2-gynous, the pedicels jointed just below the flower. Fruit lenti- 

 cular, the faces round and acute, smooth, shining. 

 Mussooree in August ; and valleys in the hills during the rains. 



12. P. simlense. 



Spicis paniculatis pedunculatis ovato-oblongis multifloris, pedunculis glandu- 

 losis, bracteis turbinato-infundibuliformibus parvis 2 — 3-fioris pedicellis 

 eequalibus, floribus 4-fidis 6-andris semi-2-gynis, achenii lenticulari calyce 

 absconditi faciebus planis nitidis minutissime granulatis, ochreis cylindri- 

 cis muticis glabris, foliis lanceolatis costâ setoso-scabrâ excepta glabris 

 margine scabro-ciliatis, caule erecto subsimplici fistuloso glabro in parte 

 superiori gland uloso. 



P. simlense. lloyle MSS. 



Stem erect, nearly leafless above, branched only near to the top, hollow, gla- 

 brous below, the upper part, the branches, and the peduncles covered 

 with minute stalked glands. Leaves lanceolate, acute at both ends, 

 glabrous, with the exception of the midrib, which is covered with mi- 

 nute scabrous hairs, the margin fringed with small scabrous hairs point- 

 ing forwards, narrowed below into a very short and slightly winged 

 stalk. Stipules rather long, cylindrical, glabrous, bluntly and trans- 

 versely truncate. Flowers in oblong-ovate dense many-flowered stalked 

 and panicled spikes, the bracteœ obliquely funnel-shaped, glabrous, 

 " small, 2- or 3-flowered, about equal to the pedicels, which are jointed 

 just below the flower; flowers 4-fid, the segments blunt; stamens 6, 

 about equal to the calyx ; style deeply bifid. Fruit lenticular, com- 

 pressed, its faces orbicular, slightly acute, shining, and very minutely 

 granulated. 



Simla in August. 



13. P. glabrum. It'illd. 



" Spicis paniculatis strictis continuis laxè cylindricis elongatis multifloris. 



