98 Mr. Babington's Descriptions of Indian Species 



compact solitary spikes, large and open, the segments of the calyx broad 

 blunt, the pedicels jointed just below the flower, longer than the broadly 

 triangular obtuse bractese ; styles much longer than the stamens, usually 

 3 and quite distinct. Fruit young on our specimens, but sufficiently 

 advanced to show that it is acutely triangular, and the faces minutely 

 punctate-granulated. 

 Kedarkanta; Lippa in Kunawur, Peer Punjal and Kherang Pass, Septem- 

 ber. 



6. P. emodi. Meisn.. • 



" Spicis geminatis angustatis, floribus inapertis, achenii acutanguli faciebus 

 leevibus nitidissimis, foliis angust^ lanceolatis sublinearib usque acutis- 

 simis utrinque sequalit^r attenuatis margine revoluto integerrimis supra 

 dens^ pennatim nervosis, trunco epigeo prostrato ramoso radicante ubi- 

 que folioso, caulibus annotinis erectis simplicibus." — Meisn. 



P. emodi. Meisn. in Wall. iii. 5 1 . t. 287- 



Stem prostrate, woody, branched and rooting; stalks short, leafy, upright, 

 usually terminating in 2 spikes of flowers, although on our specimens 

 there is only one spike upon each stalk. Leaves lanceolate, acute, penni- 

 nerved, the nerves prominent above, the margins reflexed and entire, 

 very numerous. Stipules long, entire, acute, with numerous prominent 

 nerves. Flowers in terminal, sublinear spikes, usually 2 together, seg- 

 ments of the calyx 5, ovate, obtuse ; stamens 8 ; style semitrifid, pedicels 

 jointed just below the flower. Fruit trigonous, the faces rhombo-ellip- 

 tical, smooth and shining. 



Kedarkanta, August. 



Sect. 2. Amblygonon. Meisn. 



7. P. orientale. Linn. 



" Spicis paniculatis demum nutantibus, bracteis acutis, 3 — 5-floris, floribus 

 patentibus 7-andris, glandulis 7 squamseformibus perigynis inter sta- 

 minum insertiones, achenii basi obtusi angulis rotundatis linea notatis, 

 faciebus suborbicularibus depressis Isevibus, ochreis recentioribus hypo- 



