141 



the male flowers suborbicular, of the females oblong: capsules 

 lightly trigonal : seeds a little TOugh..—Roxb.flor. Ind. III. 654. 

 —P. andrachnoides, Willd.—V. obcordatus, Boich. — P. Javanicus, 

 Foir ex Bpeeng. St/st.—V. gracilis, Boxh.fioT. Ind. III. 654. 

 Peninsula. 



(36) P. Eheedii. (i2. W:) 

 Ident. Wight's Icon. vol. V.— Deo. 1. c. p. 363. 

 %«. P. flacciduB, Thwaites Emm. Fl. Zeyl. f. 283. 

 Ik.grm. "Wight 1. c. t. 1895. fig. 1.— Rheede Mai. II. t. 27. 



Spec. Chae. Perennial: branchlets angular: stipules linear- 

 lanceolate, long and sharply subulate-acuminate : leaves broad or 

 narrow obovate, very shortly acute, subacute at the- base, glau- 

 cescent beneath : flowers almost twin or solitary, females few, all 

 shortly pedicelled : segments of the male calyx oblong-ovate, sub- 

 acute : glands elegantly stellulately tubercled : staminal column 

 shortly 3-cleft: styles reflexed, divergingly and sharply half-2- 

 cleft: seeds very minutely 4 — 5-ribbed lengthways: capsules 

 depresso-globose. 



Peninsula. 



(37) P. TJEINAEIA. (Zm8«.) 



Ident. Linn. spec. pi. p. 1393. — Dec. 1. c. p. 364. — Eoxb. flor. 

 Ind. m. p. 660. 



Syn. Nymphanthus Niruri, Lour. — P. alatus, Fl. hidjr. — ' 

 P. leprocarpus, M. Wight. 



Engrav. Wight's Icon. t. 1894. fig. 4. 



Spec. Chae. Perennial undershrub : branchlets winged, an- 

 gular : leaves narrow oblongate-elliptic, short or long acuminated, 

 subacute at the base, sometimes lanceolate-obovate, always more 

 or less scabrous or ciliolate-serrulate at the margin, commonly 

 densely approximated, in the branchlets obliquely inserted : 

 female flowers solitary, sessile, lower, males upper, somewhat 

 twin, shortly pediceUed : segments of the female calyx ovate : 

 ovary -somewhat scaly papillose : styles flattened, recurved, 

 2-cleft, divisions hookedly recurved: capsules somfewhat scaly 

 warted : seeds transversely ribbed. 



Peninsula, flowering nearly all the year. 



(38) P. HooKEEi. (Muller.) 



Ident. Mull. Arg. 1. c. p. 19.— Dec. 1. c. p. 366. 



Spec. Chae. Updershrub : stipules linear-lanceolate, exceed- 

 ing the very short petioles, denticulately scabrous at the margin ; 

 leaves oblongate-obovate, shortly mucronulate, a little oblique at 

 the base : flowers fascicled : segments of the female calyx ovate. 



