48 



duncles retrorsely aculeate : spikes solitary, short, dense-flowered : 

 stameas 8 : style half-3-cleft^ 

 Silhet. 



(31) P. MTJEICATTTM. {Meissn.) 



Ident. Meissn. 1. c. p. 74. et ap. Wall. 1. c. p. 58. — Dec. 1. c. 

 p. 133. 



Spec. Chab. Stem rooting at the base, branched, angular, and 

 with the petioles sparingly asperulous or aculeate : ochreae bristly- 

 ciliate : leaves ovate or oblong, acuminate, obtuse, truncated at 

 the base, cordate or subhastate, glabrous, slightly scabrous at the 

 margin and nerves beneath : peduncles subdichotomous, asperu- 

 lous or smooth : spikes short, filiform, lax : bracts ovate, acute, 

 subciliolate, 1-flowered : stamens 6 : achenium largish, acute- 

 angled, smooth, shining, faces ovate, flat. 



Assam. 



(32) P. MOLLE. {Don.') 



Ident. Don 1. c. p. 72.— Dec. 1. c. p. 136.— Meissn. 1. c. p. 56. 

 et ap. "Wall. 1. c. p. 61. 



Engrav. Wight's Icon. t. 1807. 



Spec. Chae. Pruticose, branched, everywhere softly pubes- 

 cent : ochresB long, equalling the petiole : leaves oblong, attenuated 

 at both ends, silky -woolly beneath, rarely hispidulous, above at 

 length glabrate: panicle leafless: racemes filiform, lax: bracts 

 3 — 5-flowered, equalling the short pedicels and the short glabrous 

 ■ calyx : lobes of the calyx equal, oval, faces of the shining achenium 

 ovate-rhomboid, very minutely dotted. 



Pundua. 



(33) P. EUDB. {Meissn^ 

 Ident. Dec. 1. c. p. 137. 



Spec. Chae. Pruticose ; branches flexuose, furrowed, and with 

 the petioles hirsute, at length glabrous : ochreae large, sparingly 

 bristly, base persistent, truncated, nearly equalling the petiole : 

 leaves elliptic-oblong, acuminated, attenuated at the base, slightly 

 hairy, somewhat scabrous above, nerve beneath densely hirsute : 

 panicles nearly equalling the leaves, the branches and bracts 

 hispidulous, lower ones branched: bracts small, 1 — 3-flowered, 

 nearly equalling the pedicels : calycine lobes equal, oval, faces of 

 the enclosed achenium ovate-rhomboid, very minutely dotted. 



Pundua. 



