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. humile, Meisn. {microcephalu7n, 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 bractese 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 suffultis, pedunculis geminis, bracteis subsca- 

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

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

 scrobiculatis, foliis summis sessilibus oblongis cordato-amplexicaulibus, 

 inferiorum limbo ovato acuminato e basi subcordata in petiolum quasi 

 alatum decurrenteauriculato-semiamplexicauli, subtils glandulis immersis 

 subpellucidis parc^ punctato." Meisn. 



P. nepalense. Meisn. in Wall. iii. 69. 



«. glabrum, Meisn. " Foliis utrinque glabris, capitulis plerumque distinct^ pe- 

 dunculatis." Meisn. 



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



|8. scabridum, Meisn. " Foliis in nervis subtiis hirtellis margine subciliatis, 

 capitulis sessilibus aut brevissim^ 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 with 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. Flowers 



