104 3Ir. Babington's Descriptions of Indian. Species 



dibus glabriusculis subtiis in nervis tantùm parce hispidulis margine 

 molliter ciliatis, spicis raris." Meisn. 

 P. Posumbu. Don, Prod. 71. Meisn. Mon. 73. 



Stem smooth, glabrous, slender, hollow, decumbent, rooting, tlie extremities 

 ascending, branched. Leaves broadly lanceolate, equally attenuated at 

 both ends, acute, glabrous, with the exception of the mi(h-ib beneath, 

 which is covered with adpressed iiairs, the margin ciliated with minute 

 hairs pointing forwards, botli surfaces covered with minute prominent 

 points, sometimes very shortly stalked, but more commonly sessile. 

 Stipules moderate, with numerous adpressed hairs, fringed with the long 

 stiff setose points of the excurrent nerves. Flowers small, in slender 

 few-flowered lax spikes, commonly 2 together; the bracteœ small, slen- 

 der, and fringed with long stiff setose points, about 2-flowered, the 

 lowest bractea very distant from the next; flowers 5-fid, 8-androus, 

 semi-3-gynous ; pedicels jointed just below the flower. Fruit 3-quetrous, 

 its faces broadly ovate and acute, smooth but opake. 



Mussooree, in August. 



Sect. 4. Cephalophilon. Meisn. 

 Subsect. I. Didi/mocephalon. Meisn. 



\b. P. filicaule. JFall. 



" Capitulis exiguis foliis 1 — 3 suffultis subsessilibus solitariis geminisque, 

 bracteis paleaceis inconspicuis, floribus 8-andris semitrigynis, achenio 

 triquetro calycem subsuperante angnlis acutiusciilis faciebus nitidulis 

 tenerrimè puncticulatis, calyce profunda 5-fido patulo, ochreis brevibus 

 Iaxis foliisque utrinque depressè pilosis ciliatis, caule debili simplici 

 glabro." Meisn. 



P.Jilicaule. Meisn. in Wall. iii. 59. 



/3. extenuatum. Meisn. " Caule pedali siniplicissimo filiformi strigis exiguis 

 reflexo-adpressis parce asperulo apice saepii^s bifido, foliis parvis ovatis 

 rarius oblongis basi rotundatis aut abrupte in petiolum brevem attenua- 

 tis." Meisn. 



P.Jilicaule, |3. extetmafum. Meisn. in Wall. iii. 59. 



