100 Mr. Babington's Descriptions of Indian Species 



Stem erect, branched, woody, hollow, striated, covered with woolly pubes- 

 cence. Leaves lanceolate, acute, the margins slightly reflexed, covered 

 with short woolly down on both sides, but much more thickly under- 

 neath. Stipules not ciliated in our specimens, rather long, blunt, co- 

 vered with short hoary pubescence. Flowers in longish, narrow, cylin- 

 drical, dense panicled spikes, with woolly peduncles ; bracteae ovate- 

 acute (as described by Meisner in his Monog.), finely pubescent, about 

 2-flowered, nearly equal to the pedicels, which are jointed just below the 

 flower ; flowers small, 4 or 5-fid ; the segments blunt ; stamens 8 ; style 

 divided half-way down into 2 or 3 parts. Fruit lenticular, compressed, 

 its faces round and pointed, smooth, shining. 



Rana Serai. October. 



9. P. hispidum. Don. 



Spicis virgatis geminatis continuis, pedunculis firmis dens^ pilosis eglandulo- 

 sis, bracteis imbricatis turbinatis pilosis long^ barbatis pedicellos supe- 

 rantibus, floribus 8-andris semi-3-gynis ; calyce 5-fido subeglanduloso 

 exttis pubescente, achenii triquetri faciebus laevibus, ochreis longis pilosis 

 long^ setoso-ciliatis, foliis elongato-lanceolatis utrinque attenuatis ad- 

 press^ dens^que hispidis, caule erecto adpresso-hispido. 



P. hispidum. Don, Prod. 7\. 



Stem erect, thickly covered with rather long adpressed hairs. Leaves elongate- 

 lanceolate, narrowed at both ends, the margin slightly revolute, covered 

 on both sides with short closely adpressed hairs. Stipules long, obliquely 

 truncate, densely covered with hair, setose-ciliated. Flowers in long 

 slender cylindrical spikes, two together ; bracteae strongly ciliated, longer 

 than the pedicels, which are jointed just below the flower ; flowers small, 

 their segments blunt, slightly hairy on the outside and somewhat glan- 

 dular, 8-androus, semi-3-gynous. Fruit triquetrous, smooth, shining. 



Gathered on the banks of the Ganges, Aug. 1817- 



10. P. barbatum. Linn. 



Spicis pedunculatis virgatis geminatis continuis, bracteis turbinatis subremo- 



