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glabrate above, somewhat pellucid- dotted : spikes racemose, fili- 

 form, continuous, dense-flowered; bracts contiguous, narrow, 

 densely and long bristly ciliated, 1 — 2-flowered, exceeding the 

 pedicels : calyx somewhat eglandular, enclosing the organs. 



Neilgherries, on wet grounds in woods. 



(5) P. PEDUNCTTLAEE. (Wall.) 



Ident. Dec. 1. c. p. 133. 



S^n. P. dichotomum, Blume hijdr. p. 529 ? 



Engrav. Wight's Icon. t. 1802. 



Spec. Chae. Stem erect (?), somewhat unarmed or roughish or 

 retrorsely strigose in the angles and below the knees : ochreae 

 somewhat beardless, thinly strigose at the base or naked : leaves 

 lanceolate, attenuated at both ends, margin not scariose, cilioles 

 antrorse, slightly scabrous : petiole almost equalling the ochrea : 

 peduncles dichotomous, smooth or glandularly hispidulous: 

 spikes short-oblong or subglobose : bracts somewhat beardless, 

 furrowed, striated : stamens 5 : achenium biconvex-subglobose, 

 slightly impressed and dotted, shining. 



Silhet. Peninsida. Neilgherries. 



(6) P. HOEEIDTJM. {Ham.) 



Ident. Dec. 1. c. p. 133.— Eoxb. 1. c. p. 291.— Wall. 1. c. 

 p. 58. 



Syn. P. sagittatumi Don Nep. p. 73. 

 Engrav. Wight's Icon. t. 1803. 



Spec. Chae. Stem branched, 4-cornered, densely retrorsely 

 aculeate, with the short petioles and rib of the leaves, dichoto- 

 mous above : ochreje narrow bristly-ciliate, retrorsely strigose at 

 the base : leaves cordate or sagittate-lanceolate, margin scariose, 

 spinulose-eiliated : spikes twin or dichotomously panicled, short- 

 oblong or ovate, dense- flowered: peduncles glandulose-scabrous : 

 bracts ovate, acuminate, ciliolate, obsoletely striated : stamens 

 6 — 8 : style half-2 — 3-cleft : achenium granular- dot ted, biconvex 

 or obsoletely 3-cornered. 



Bengal. Silhet. Assam. Peninsula. Flowering all the 

 year. 



(7) P. Nepai-bnse. (Meissn.) 



Ident. Dec. 1. c. p. 128. — Meissn. ap. Wall. 1. c. p. 59. 

 JEngrav. Wight's Icon. t. 1804. 



Spec. Chae. Stem erect or ascending, branched : ochrese 

 glabrous : upper leaves sessile, cordate-oblong, lower ones ovate, 



