108 Mr. Babington's Descriptions of Indian Species 



lignoso ramoso cimi ochreis foliisque pube purpurascente hispidulo." — 



Meisn.. 

 P. capitatum. Don, Prod. 73. Meisn. Mon. 82. 

 P. repens. Meisn. in Wall. 60. 



Stem procumbent, rooting, woody, hispid, reddish. Leaves ovate or elliptical, 

 acute, more or less downy on both sides, ciliated, the petioles very short, 

 with 2 auricles which are very often fugacious. Stipules blunt, more or 

 less hairy, ciliated. Flowers small, 5-sepalous, 8-androus, semitrigynous, 

 with paleaceous acute bractese, in small compact heads, mostly two toge- 

 ther, one of them often nearly sessile. Fruit trigonous, the faces ovate- 

 acute, opake, and very minutely granulated, the calyx slightly agglutinated 

 to the fruit. 



Mutrogh and Hills in May. 



20. P. sinuatum. 



Capitulis solitariis, pedunculis glabris, bracteis ovatis obtusis, floribus 5-andris 

 semitrigynis laciniis obtusis, achenio triquetro, ochreis glabris vel parcfe 

 pilosis, foliis lyratis lobo terminal! rhomboideo, petiolo basi biauriculato, 

 caule ramoso. 



P. sinuatum. Royle MSS. 



Stem procumbent, branched, striated, glabrous, reddish, the internodes very 

 long. Leaves glabrous, runcinate, the terminal lobe, the largest rhomboid, 

 or approaching to triangular acute, and about one inch both in length 

 and width, the lateral lobes about three upon each side blunt, the auri- 

 cles small and blunt. Stipules obtuse, glabrous, or very slightly hairy. 

 Flowers in dense globose heads upon longish stalks, segments of the 

 calyx 5, obtuse and rounded, rather longer than the 5 stamens, sub- 

 trigynous, the bractese ovate obtuse. Fruit 3-gonous, the angles rounded, 

 the faces very convex and shining. 



This is a most interesting species, P. runcinatum, Ham., having been the 

 only plant belonging to this genus known to have runcinate leaves. Oiir plant 

 may be distinguished from P. runcinatum, which is fully described by Meisner 

 in Wall. Plant. Asiat. Rar. iii. 60, by its much smaller size ; the terminal lobe 



