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brown, fringed with white hairs, 1 — 2-flowered, about as long as 

 the pedicels: flowers 6— 8-androus: oehrese loose, crowned with 

 long bristling hairs: leaves oblong-lanceolate, rough: stem thick, 

 erect, branched, rooting at the base. 



Common on the banks of streams and watercourses in most 

 parts of the country, flowering all the year. 



(2) P. GLABErM. (Willd.) 



Ident. Willd. sp. II. p. 447.— Dec. 1. c. p. 114.— Eoxb. 1. c. 

 p. 287. 



Miffrav. Eheede Mai. XII. t. 77.— Wight's Icon. t. 1799. 



Spec. Chae. Quite glabrous : oehrese long, leaf-bearing below 

 the middle, and with the bracts ciliated : leaves elongate-lanceo- 

 late, acuminate, attenuately petioled, glandular- dotted : spikes 

 twin or panicled, narrow-cylindric : bracts somewhat imbricated, 

 shortly turbinate, obliquely truncated, subacute, 2 — 4-flowered : 

 calyx eglandular, fructiferous, ovate : stamens 6 (seldom 7 — 8), 

 enclosed : style half-2-cleft, subexserted : achenium biconvex, 

 shining. 



Very common in similar places as the preceding. 



(3) P. Miinjs. (Suds.) 

 Ident. Huds. flor. Angl. I. p. 148.— Dec. 1. c. p. 111. 

 Syn. P. strictum, AUioni flor. Pedem. N. 2051. — P. angusti- 

 folium, Both tent. flor. Oerm. II. 1. p. 453 (not Poir).—V. pusil- 

 lum. Lam. flor. Fr. 3. p. 235. — P. subcontinuum, P. iaterruptum, 

 Meissn. in Wall. pi. As. rar. III. p. 67, 



Engrm. Wight's Icon. t. 1800.— Engl. Bot. t. 1043. 



Spec. Chae. Stem procumbent or erect, slender, glabrous: 

 ochress a little hairy, densely ciliated with longish thin bristles, 

 leaf-bearing near the base : leaves linear or lanceolate, rounded 

 at the base or seldom shortly attenuated, glabrous, slightly 

 scabrous at the margin and nerve : spikes subracemose, erect, a 

 little loose : bracts shortly turbinate, truncated, densely hairy- 

 ciliated, exceeding the pedicels : stamens 5, seldom 8, and with 

 the 2 — 3-parted style enclosed : achenium small, biconvex, much 

 shining, smooth. 



Neilgherries, in low wet ground. 



(4) P. DoNii. (Meissn.) 

 Ident. Dec. 1. e. p. 105.— Meissn. in Wall. pi. As. rar. 

 JEngrav. Wight's Icon. t. 1801. 



Spec. Chae. Stem slender: ochreae narrow, slightly hairy 

 densely ciliated with strong bristles, leaf-bearing above the base- 

 leaves lanceolate, equally attenuated at both ends, puberulous or 



