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Spec. Chae. Shrub: leaves narrow or linear-oblongate-' 

 elliptic, obtuse at both ends, mucronulate at the apex, densely- 

 approximated, recurved at the ma^in, glabrous, equally broad 

 for some distance : stiptiles triangular, ovate or lanceolate, denti- 

 culate, acumiuated: flowers fascicled, very shortly pedicelled, 

 rising from the very small densely bracteated branchlets, all very 

 shortly pedicelled : glands of the male flowers distinct : disc hy- 

 pogynous, dwarf, annular-crenulate : anthers shortly apiculated : 

 ovary globose : styline column slender : styles thin, elongated, 

 2-cleft : capsules 3-furrowed : seeds pale, deeply pitted. 



Mysore and Carnatic. Concans. 



(30) P. Lawii. {J. Grah.) 



Ident. Grah. Cat. of Bombay plants p. 181, — Dec. 1. e. 

 p. 353. 



Spec. Chae. Shrub : branchlets fascicled : stipules triangular- 

 lanceolate, hardened : leaves linear-elliptic, subacute, slightly 

 cordate at the base, paler beneath : flowers axillary in the branch- 

 lets, densely bracteate, somewhat fascicled : pedicels short : caly- 

 cine segments elliptic: glands of the male flowers free, of the 

 females connate into an hexagonal urceolus : anthers shortly 

 apiculate, straightly erect : ovary smooth : styles connate, nearly 

 a third part of their length archedly recurved above and 2-lobed. 



Near Bombay. 



(31) P. BTTLosrs. {Griff.) 



Ident. Griff. Posth. papers. II. p. 33. — Dec. 1. c. p. 353. 



Spec. Chae. Low undershrub : leaves half-spreading : monoe- 

 cious flowers of either sex aggregated in the axils of the leaves, 

 upper axils only bearing male flowers : calycine segments reflexed : 

 glands of male flowers distinct : styles elongated, deeply 3-parted. 



At the margins of torrents in Khasia. 



(32) P. BCEOBOTEYOiDES. (Muller.) 

 Ident. Mull. Arg. in Liansea V. 32. p. 15. — Dec, 1. c. p. 354. 



Spec, Chae. Shrub, glabrous: branchlets acutely quadran- 

 gular, above after the fall of the leaves somewhat paniculately 

 floriferous: stipules lanceolate, recurved, stifi', paler and sub- 

 Boariose at the margin : -leaves oblong-ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 

 acute or acuminate, obtuse at the base, subcoriaceous, brown: 

 racemes axillary : monoecious flowers racemosely situated in 

 axillary branchlets, solitary or sometimes twin, females sessile, 

 males shortly pedicelled : calycine segments coriaceous, oblong- 

 ovate : glands of male flowers free, obovoid-trigonal, of females 

 narrow, slightly free : anthers shortly apiculate : styline column 



