144 



Engrm. Wight's Icon. t. 1901.— Eteede Mai. V. t. 27. 



Spec. Chae. Undershrub : stipules broadly triangular-ovate, 

 unequally half-cordate at the base, denticulate, lacerate, scariose : 

 leaves ovate-eUiptic, obtuse at both, ends, very shortly acute at the 

 apex : pedicels fascicled, females at length elongated : filaments 

 free : glands of male flowers free, smooth, of females connate into 

 a repandly lobed urceolus : ovary with very short hairs : styles 

 short : seeds dotted with warts at the back. 



Pulney hills. 



(45) P. LESCHENArLTii. {Mulhr.') 



Ident. Mull. 1. c. p. 37.— Dec. 1. c. p. 398. 



Spec. Chae. Shrub : stipules ovate- linear-lanceolate, crenate 

 or inciso-denticulate, deciduous: leaves obovate or oblong-obo- 

 vate, paler below : male pedicels capillaceous, fructiferous ones 

 thickened above : segments of male calyx ovate, paler at the 

 margin : urceolus hypogynous, sublobate : male flowers somewhat 

 in threes, females solitary : glands of male flowers suborbiculate, 

 papillose : filaments connate into a column for about half their 

 length : styles bipartite, longish : seeds lightly costulate length- 

 wise, striated transversely in the ribs. 



Neilgherries. Khasia hUls. 



(46) P. EOTTTNDiFOLitrs. (Muller.) 



Ident. Dec. 1. c. p. 405. 



Spec. Chae. Annual: flowers somewhat twin, shortly pedi- 

 celled : fructiferous calyx accrescentj: segments obovate, broadly 

 hyaline-margined : ovary smooth : styles 2-lobed : seeds ribbed 

 lengthways at the back. 



Far. a. genuihts. — Branchlets above sharply angled, slightly 

 scabrous : fructiferous calyx open, larger than the capsule ;|leave3 

 broad or narrow-obovate, obtuse or acutish : glands of female 

 flowers almost altogether free : staminal column quite entire : 

 styles spreading. — P. rotundifoUus, Willd. 



Pondicherry. Assam. 



Var. h. STEiOLATTJS. — Leaves orbicular- ovate, very shortly 

 acute: calyx and stipules densely glandulosely striolate. — P. 

 Urinaria, Willd. 



Peninsula ? 



(47) P. NiETJEi. (Midler) . 



Ident. Dec. 1. c. p. 406. 



Spec. Chae. Flowers twin or females solitary, all short- 

 pedicelled: segments of the fructiferous calyx narrow-obovate, 

 small, not accrescent : styles very short, revolutely 2-lobed at the 



