148 



obtuse: filaments nearly entirely free: styles deeply 2-oleft, 

 spreading : capsule small ; ovary and seeds smooth. 

 Khasia hills. 



(42) P. Mtqueliantts. {Muller.) 



Ident, Mull. Arg. 1. c— Dec. 1. c. p. 391. 



Syn. Macrsea ovalifolia, B. W. 



Engrav. "Wight's Icon. t. 1902, fig. 4. 



Spec. Chae. Shrub, diifusely brancbed : stipules triangular- 

 ovate, acuminated or long-cuspidate, lacinulate, long semihastate 

 at one side of the base : leaves oblong-ovate, subobtuse at both 

 ends, glaucous beneath: pedicels fascicled, females at length 

 nearly equalling the leaves : glands of the disc free, thick, 

 smooth : filaments free : cells of the anthers divergent at the 

 base: ovary papillosely scabrous: styles 2-parted, recurved, 

 divisions hooked at the apex : seeds rough-dotted. 



Neilgherries. 



(43) P. SIMPLEX. {Muller.) 



Ident. Dec. 1. e. p. 391. 



Spec. Chae. Male pedicels twin or in threes, females sub- 

 solitary, exceeding the males : segments of the female calyx ovate, 

 at length reflexed : glands of male flowers free : ovary papillose : 

 styles deeply bipartite, slender : seeds rough-dotted. 



Var. a. GENUiNtrs. — TJndershrub : stems simple or sparingly 

 branched, erect, or ascending, leaf-flower-bearing all or nearly all 

 their length : leaves narrow Unear-lanceolate, obtuse at both ends 

 or acute, beneath glaucous : stipules ovate, very shortly acumi- 

 nate, auriculately half-hastate at the base, brown : glands of the 

 male flowers orbicular-reniform, of the females connate into a 

 crenate-lobate undulated urceolus : ovary lightly papillose : cap- 

 sules depresso-globose : seeds rather densely dotted with warts. — 

 Betz. obs. 5. p. 29. — Iloxb. flor. Ind. III. p. 654. — P. anceps, 

 rail. 



Peninsula. 



Var. h. OBiONaiFOLius. — Mull. Arg. 1. c. p. 32. — Leaves 

 linear-elliptic, rather obtuse at both ends. — Macrsea oblongifolia, 

 Wight's Icon. t. 1902, Jig. 1. — Melanthesa rupestris, Miq^, Hor. 

 Ind. Bat. I. part 2. p. 371. 



In various parts of the country. 



(44) P. MAOBiEi. {Muller.) 



Ident. Mull. Arg. 1. c. p. 29.— Deo. 1. c. p. 393. 

 Macrsea Bheedii, B. W» 



