110 Mr. Babington's Descriptions of Indian Species 



gins slightly recurved, crenulated and crisped, no auricles upon our 

 specimens. Stipules with fewer nerves than in the preceding variety. 

 Heads fewer in number, but forming small corymbs, the bractese shorter ; 

 the peduncles hispid. Fruit the same as in var. a. but the faces nearly 

 triangular. 



This is P. -patens, Don, M'hich Meisner refers to his var. y. but with which 

 our plant does not exactly agree. 



Sect. 6. AcoNOGONON. Meisn. 



22. P. tortuosum. Don. 



Panicuiis condensatis, bracteis unifloris, pedicellis erectis longioribus, calycis 

 laciniis obtusis ineequalibus glabris 3 interioribus orbiculatis 2 exte- 

 rioribus ovalibus angustioribus, ochreis internodio dimidio brevioribus, 

 foliis sessilibus orbiculari-ovalibus sericeis, caule ramoso fruticoso cum 

 ramis pedunculis bracteis ochreisque piloso-sericeis. 



P. tortuosum. Don, Prod. Jl. 



Stem round, ribbed, woody, much branched, solid, covered with woolly hair, 

 the internodes long. Leaves round or ovate, 1 — 1^ inches long, silky, 

 particularly underneath, ciliated, sessile. Stipules lax, torn, hairy, not 

 half so long as the internodes. Flowers in small dense panicles, the 

 bractese longer than the pedicels, hairy and 1-flowered, flowers 8-androus, 

 3-gynous ; the 3 interior segments orbicular, 2 exterior oval and blunt ; 

 pedicels without the usual joint. Fruit in too young a state for descrip- 

 tion. 



Lippa in Kunawur, Kherang Pass, 22 July. R. Inglis, Esq. 



23. P. Hagei. 



Paniculi ramis subsimplicibus aphyllis, bracteis 3 — 6-floris pedicellos erectos 

 subsequantibus, calycis laciniis rotundato-ovalibus obtusis glabris 2 

 exterioribus angustioribus, ochreis petiolo longioribus internodio brevio- 

 ribus, foliis lanceolatis apice lineari-attenuatis subtfls lanato-velutinis 

 supr^ pubescentibus, caule erecto ramoso striato cum ramis pedunculis 

 ochreisque pilosis. 



