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calyx, whicli is much attenuated at the base : acheuium shining, 

 obsoletely dotted, apex exserted. 



Around Calcutta. 



(14) P. LANIGEEUM. {B. Br.) 



Ident. E. B. prod. p. 419.— Dec. 1. c. p. 117. 



Spec. Chae. "Whole plant hoary : ochrese long; short-ciliated, 

 or at length beardless : leaves lanceolate, acuminate, beneath 

 more densely covered with white wool : spikes twin or racemose, 

 linear: bracts somewhat imbricated, ovate, ciliate, or naked, 

 almost equalling the pedicels : stamens 6 (seldom 7 — 8), and with 

 the half-2 — 3-cleft style somewhat exserted : achenium somewhat 

 round-lenticular (seldom 3-cornered), faces convex. 



Var. LroiCTJM. — Stems slender, branched: ochrese much 

 shorter than the internode : leaves digital : spikes panicled, 

 slender : bracts more or less canescent, beardless or the lowest 

 ones ciliolate: calyx smaller: fructiferous one more ovate. — 

 P. lanatum, Boxb. — P. lanigerum, Meissn. in Wall. I. c. p. 5&. 



Bengal. Peninsula. 



(15) P. OBIENTALE. {lAmi.) 



Ident. Linn. sp. I. p. 519. — Dee. 1. c. p. 123, 



Spec. Chae. Whole plant softly hairy : stem tall, branched : 

 ochreae hypocrateriform : limb leafy, patent, ciliolate, deciduous : 

 leaves ovate and oblong, acuminate, decurrent into the petiole : 

 spikes panicle oblong, nodding : bracts ovate, acute, pubescent, 

 3 — 5-flowered : flowers largish, patent : stigmas- hat-shaped : 

 achenium obtuse at the base, faces depressed: flowers rose or 

 white. 



Va/r. PILOSTJM (^Meissn. ap. Wall. I. c. p. 54). — Spikes some- 

 times erect, straightish : flowers middle-sized.: line in the angle 

 of the achenium obsolete or none : pubescence of all the parts 

 more copious, longer, often almost golden-silky. — Boxb. I. c. 

 p. 286. — P. amoenum, Blume. — P. Cochinchinense, Meissn. mon. 

 p. 55. — Lagunea Cochinchinensis, Lov/r. Coch. I. p. 271. 



Calcutta, in wet places, flowering in the rainy season. 



(16) P. TOMENTOSTJM. (Willd.) 



Ident. Dee. 1. c. p. 124.— Willd. sp. II. p. 44.7.— Eoxb. 1. c. 

 p. 287. 



Syn. P. pulchrum, Blume hijdr. p. 530. 



Spec. Chae. Whole plant covered with adpressed hairs : stem 

 erect, furrowed, thick^ glabrescent below : ochre* long, limb mem- 

 branaceous, erect, long-bristly-ciliate : leaves oblong-lanceolate, 

 attenuated at both ends : spike| panicled, linear, straight, dense- 



