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acuminate, prolonged from a subcordate base into a cuneate- 

 winged petiole, which is auriculately stem-clasping at the base, 

 beneath sparingly dotted with subpellucid immersed glands : 

 capitules twin or (seldom) solitary, largish, supported by a leaf: 

 peduncles glandulose-hispidulous at the apex: bracts scariose, 

 acuminately acute: flowers urceolate, shortly 4 — 5-cleft, 6 — 8- 

 androus, half digynous : achenium serobiculate-reticulate. 



Var a. glabeum (Meissn. op. Wall. I. c). — Leaves glabrous on 

 both sides: capitules distinctly pedunqled: calyx compressed, 

 4-cleft : achenium biconvex. 



Assam. Canara. Neilgherries. Peninsula. 



Var. h. SCABEIDTIM (Meissn. I. c). — Leaves subciliate, nerves 

 hairyish : capitules sessile or short-peduncled : calyx compressed, 

 4-cleft : achenium biconvex. 



NeUgherries. 



(8) P. "Wallichii. {Meissn.) 



Ident. Dec. 1. c. p. 129.— Meissn. mon. p. 83.— Wall. 1. c. 

 p. 60. 



Engrav. "Wight's Icon. t. 1805. 



Spec. Chae. Stem branched, glabrous, rooting at the base : 

 ochresB short-ciliated : leaves ovate, acuminate, eglandular, gla- 

 brous, cUiolate, shortly prolonged into a wingless leafy auricled 

 petiole from a subcordate base, upper ones cordate-lanceolate, 

 stem-clasping : capitules twin, middle-sized : peduncles glabrous : 

 bracts scariose, ovate, obtuse, eciUate : flowers 5-cleft, 8- or rarely 

 6-androus, half-trigynous : achenium trigonal, obtuse-angled, 

 granular-striated . 



Neilgherries. 



(9) P. Chinense. {iMin.) 



Ident. Dec. 1. c. p. 130.— Wall. 1. c. p. 60.— Eoxb. 1. c. p. 289. 



Syn. ,R. brachiatum, Pair. — P. corymbosum, Willd. — P. 

 cymosum, Boceh. — Ampelygonum Chinense, Lindl. in Bot. Meg. 

 1838. Misc. 113. 



Engra/o. Wight's Icon. t. 1806. 



Spec. Chae. Stem erect, branched : leaves ovate or oblong : 

 auricles leafy, reniform at the base of the petiole, deciduous : 

 corymb simple or panicled : peduncles hairy or scabrous, dicho- 

 tomous or 3-cleft, supported by leafy cordate bracts: flowers 

 5-cleft, 8-androus, half-trigynous : achenium triquetrous : flowers 

 white. 



Courtallum. Peninsula. Bengal. 



Va/r. a. THTJNBEEGiAwrM {Meissn. ap. Wall. I. c). — Leaves 

 ovate or deltoid, subtruncate at the base, or rarely subcor- 



