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apex : capsules depressed, very small : seeds ribbed lengthways : 

 ribs transversely very minutely striolated. 



Var. a. scabeellus. — Mull. Arg. 1. c. — Herbaceous or peren- 

 nial : branchlets somewhat distinctly angular, slightly scabrous : 

 leaves obtuse : female calyces open, equalling the capsule. 



Bengal. 



Var. h. GEiruiNirs. — Herbaceous T branchlets not angular, 

 smooth : leaves oblong-elliptic, roundly obtuse at both ends : 

 fructiferous calyx dilated, covered by the capsule : glands of female 

 flowers almost free : staminal column entire : ovary smooth, 

 glabrous : styles shortly 2-lobed. — Litrn. sp. p. 1392. Willd. — 

 Nymphanthus Niruri, Lour. 



Common everywhere. 



Var. c. DEBiLis. — Mull. Arg. 1. c. — Herbaceous: branchlets 

 somewhat angular : leaves linear-obovate or Unear-lanceolate.-^ 

 Willd. sp. 4. p. 382.— P. Niruri, Thwaites Enum. pi. Zeyl. 

 p. 282. 



Peninsula, in rice fields. 



(48) P. DiSTiCHTJS. (Muller.) 

 Ident. Dee. 1. c. p. 413. 



Syn. Cicca disticha, Jjinn. Willd. — P. Cheremila, JRoxh. M. B. 

 p. 104.— P. longifolius, Eoxb.flor. Ind. 111. p. 672.— P. Cicca, 

 Mull. Arg. in Linn. V. 32, p. 50. 



Mngrav. Lam. Encycl. II. t. 757. fig. 1.— Eheede, Mai. III. 

 t. 47-8. 



Spec. Chab. Shrub: branchlets flower-bearing, but neve;r 

 leaves at the same time : leaves oblong-ovate, acute or acuminate, 

 beneath more or less glaucescent : flower-bearing branchlets leaf- 

 less, solitary or aggregated, filiform, interruptedly or rather 

 densely fascicle-bearing : lower fascicles few, often bisexual, rest 

 upper ones all male : pedicels capillaceoua : calyx glabrous, the 

 female longer: ovary tetramerous, glabrous: segments of male 

 calyx suborbicular : glands of the disc of male flowers free, sub- 

 globose : capsules subglobose, 4-coccous, 4-furrowed : flowers 

 small, reddish. 



Native place uncertain. Common in gardens. Pruit subacid 

 and wholesome ; used for pickles and preserves. Plowering in 

 the hot season. 



(49) P. Indices. (Muller.) 



Ident. Mull. Arg. 1. c. p. 52.— Dec. 1. c. p. 417. 

 Sym Prosorus Indicus, Balst. in JLook. Journ, Bot. 1852 1 

 p. 345. — Thwaites Enum.pl. Zeyl.p. 281. 

 Engrav. Thwaites in Hook. 1. c. p. 299. t. x. 

 Spec. Chab. Small tree : flowers dioecious : leaves oblong" 



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