106 Mr. Babington's Descriptions of Indian Species 



and axillary, solitary, or sometimes 2 together, one of which is nearly 

 sessile. Fruit triangular, covered by the subagglutinated calyx, its faces 

 elliptical, pointed, granulated and opake. 



Nearly related to P. Inimile, Meisn. {microcephulum, Don), but differs from 

 it by having only one nearly simple stem from a fibrous root ; the flowers 

 8-androus, the fruit 3-angular, the leaves glabrous, and the bracteee glandular. 

 It agrees with P. perforatum, Don, in all respects, except by not having glands 

 at the base of its stipules. 



Mussooree. 



17. P. nepalense. Meisn. 



" Capitulis folio sessili cordato suff'ultis, pedunculis geminis, bracteis subsca- 

 riosis ochreisque muticis glabris, floribus 6-andris semidigynis, calycis 

 limbo 4-fido, achenio compresse faciebus convexis eleganter reticulato- 

 scrobiculatis, foliis suinmis sessilibus oblongis cordato-amplexicaulibus, 

 inferiorum limbo ovato acuminate e basi subcordata in petiolum quasi 

 alatum decurrente auriculato-scmiamplexicauli, subtils glandulis immersis 

 subpellucidis parce punctate." Meisn. 



P. nepalense. Meisn. in Wall. iii. 59. 



u. glabrum, Meisn. " Foliis utrinque glabris, capitulis plerumque distincte pe- 

 dunculatis." Meisn. 



P. nepalense. Meisn. Mon. 84. t. vii. t. 2. 



(3. scabridum, Meisn. " Foliis in nervis subtùs hirtellis niargine subciliatis, 

 capitulis sessilibus aut brevissimè pedunculatis." Meisn. 



Stem erect, glabrous, more or less branched. Leaves on the upper part of the 

 stem, cordate-acuminate, sessile, the lower ones subcordate-acute, nar- 

 rowed suddenly into a broadly-winged petiole, which is auricled and 

 amplexicaul, the under surface of all the leaves marked with numerous 

 pellucid immersed glandular dots ; in var. «. they are glabrous ; in var. /3. 

 the upper surface is covered \t'ith scattered hairs, the nerves beneath are 

 hairy, and the margins are fringed with minute spinous hairs. Stipules 

 rather long, blunt, glabrous, with a few hairs at their base. F/ou-er-v 



