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equalling the ovary, free part of the styles bipartite, spreadingly 

 recurved. 

 Silhet. 



(33) P. jrNiPEEiNOiDES. (Muller.) 



Ident. Mull. 1. c. p. 18.— Dec. 1. c. p. 358. 



Syn. P. spinulosus. Wall. Gat. No. 7987. 



Spec. Chae. Shrub, glabrous : stipules afterwards spinescent : 

 leaves small, oblongate-ovate, shortly acuminated or obtuse, 

 cordate at the base : styles erect, 2-cleft : flowers axillary, small, 

 subsolitary, shortly pedieelled: ealycine segments oblong-ovate, 

 subacute : glands of either sex small, of male flowers free, of 

 female connate into a 6-lobed urceolus : staminal column entire : 

 anthers oblong, apiculated : ovary glabrous : capsule subglobose, 

 acutish : seeds very lightly pitted. 



Malabar. Concan. 



(34) P. PETTDrirs. (Boxl.') 



Ident. Eoxb. flor. Ind. III. p. 662.— Dec. 1. c. p. 359. 



Spec. Chae. Shrub, glabrous : branches flexuose, often 

 somewhat pendulous : leaves lanceolate-elliptic, subacute, coloured 

 at the margin, upper ones smaller : flowers monoecious : racemules 

 situated in the lower part of the branchlets at length half- 

 equalling the leaves, densely bracteated in 4 rows, pendulous : 

 female flowers solitary in the upper axils : ealycine segments 

 orbicular-ovate, acute : disc of either sex urceolar : ovary globose : 

 styles spreading divergingly, 2-cleft. 



Peninsula, flowering in the rainy season. 



(35) P. Madeeaspatensis. {Muller.') 

 Ident. Mull. Arg. 1. c. p. 19.— Dec. 1. c. p. 362. 



Spec. Chae. Branchlets tetragonal: flowers fascicled, fe- 

 males solitary, mixed with 1 — 5 males in each axil : pedicels 

 short : ealycine segments of either sex rhomb-obovate, narrowly 

 white margined, at length larger, adpressed in fruit: filaments 

 strong, very shortly free at the apex : styles short, thick, 2-cleft 

 or lobed: seeds regularly rough -dotted. 



Var. a. Thonh-ingii. — Mull. Arg. 1. c. — Undershrub: leaves 

 obovate-lanceolate, upper ones more or less linear : male flowers 

 1 — 3 in each axil. — WigJit's Icon. t. 1895. 



Mysore. Carnatic. 



Var. 6. GENUHTTJs. — Undershrub, perennial : leaves broader or 

 narrower cuneate-obovate or lanceolate, abruptly acuminate at 

 the apex : male flowers 2 — 4-nate : glands of either sex free, of 



