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(24) P. MACEANTHrM. (Meissn.) 



Ident. Dec. 1. c. p. 107. 



Spec. Chae. Ocljrese short, slightly bristly hairy, nerves 

 running out into strong bristles : leaves oblong-lanceolate, long- 

 acuminate, obtuse at the base, ciliated, slightly hairy or glabrea- 

 cent above : pedicels, at length short-exserted : calyx large, and 

 minutely dotted: style at length exserted: achenium obtuse- 

 angled, faces broadly ovate, smooth, very shining. 



Marshes in the Khasia hills. 



(25) P. AssAMiOTTM. {Meissn.) 



Ident. Dec. 1. c. p. 111. 



Spec. Chae. Stem erect, glabrous: ochrese short, narrow, 

 slightly bristly, bristles thin, longish, densely ciliated, leaf-bearing 

 below the middle : leaves oblong-lanceolate, attenuated at both 

 ends, ciliolate, glabrous, nerves and veins beneath densely hairy : 

 spikes twin or subracemose, filiform, erect, straight, interrupted 

 at the base : bracts contiguous, turbinate, obliquely truncated, 

 glabrous, densely bristly-ciliate or upper ones somewhat naked, 

 1 — 2-flowered, equalling the pedicels : calyx small, eglandulose : 

 stamens 5 — 6, and with the semibifid style enclosed : achenium 

 elliptic-lenticular, biconvex, smooth, and very shining. 



Assam. 



(26) P. SCABEINBETITJM, var. CILIOLATUM. {Royle.) 



Ident. Eoyle MSS.— Dec. 1. c. p. 121. 



Spec. Chae. Stem covered with subsessile glands : younger 

 ochrese exceeding the internodes, and with the lower bracts very 

 shortly ciliolate : peduncles sparingly glandular or somewhat 

 naked : spikes straight, linear, continuous, dense-flowered : bracts 

 somewhat imbricated, eglandulose: stamens 6, enclosed: style 

 semibifid. 



(27) P. sPH.aiEOSTACHTUM. {Meism.) 



Ident. Meissn. mon. p. 53. et ap. Wall. 1. c. p. 52. — Dec 

 1. c. p. 125. 



Syn. P. macrophyllum, Bon flor. Nep. p. 70.— P tenue, 

 Don I. c. — P. gracUlimum, Spreng. syst. e. p. p. 154. 



Spec. Chae. Leaves costate-crenulate at the margin, glabrous 

 or puberulous beneath, lower ones lanceolate, obtuse, attenuated 

 at the base, petiole wingless, upper ones sessile, linear: spike 

 compact, short, oblong, or subglobose, truncated at the base : 



