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riba, or somewhat 3- nerved from the 2 ribs rising at the base: 

 catkins axillary and terminal, peduncled, fiUform, erect : flowers 

 somewhat remote : ovary ovate, bearing the stigma on the apex. 



Alpine stations in woods or open rocky ground near springs. 



(3) P. poETFLACorDES. fDietr. Miq.J 



Ident. Dietr, Miq. in Wight 1, c. t, 1922 Hook. Joum. Bot. 



V. p. 5fi0. 



Spec. Chae. Sncoulent, glabrous, sparingly branched, creeping, 

 deeply rooting, leafless below : leaves opposite, upper ones temate, 

 short petioled, succulent, glanduloso-punctuate, obovate, oblong, 

 or sub-spathulate, obsoletely 3, rarely 5-nerved : aments axUlary 

 and terminal, solitary, longish peduncled shorter than the peduncles, 

 cylindrical, obtuse. 



Common in Alpine localities. 



(4) P. EEPLBXA. {Bietr. Miq.) 



Ident. Dietr. Miq^ in "Wight Icon, t, 1923—1. 



Spec. Chae. Succulent, coriaceous, rooting at the base, ascend- 

 ing, erect, di-or-trichotomously branched, slightly puberulous or 

 glabrous : leaves temate or quatemate, (rarely six at the forks), 

 petioled, pellucid-dotted, rhomb-elliptic, obtuse or roundish, con- 

 tracting below into a short petiole, minutely pwberulous, obsoletely 

 3-nerved below, speckled with depressed brown points : petioles 

 united into a ring at the base : peduncles terminal, nearly as long 

 as the catkins : catkins cylindric, deeply pitted, rough, 



Neilgherries and other Alpine ranges. 



(5) P. COUEIALLENSIS. fMiq.j 



Ident. Mi^. in Hook. Joum. Bot. v. p. 549. 



Mgrm). Wight 1. c. t, 1923—2. 



Spec. Chae. Erect, succulent, glabrous, oppositely and alternately 

 branched : leaves moderately petioled, opposite, or the upper ones 

 verticelled, and usually larger, all varying in form and size, elliptic- 

 oblong, or obovate, acute, or attenuated at the base, rounded or 

 alternately obtuse and emarginate at the apex; and there the 

 younger ones ciliolate, equal or unequal-sided, pellucid-punctuate, 

 pale beneath," obsoletely 1 or 3-nerved : catkins axillary or terminal, 

 solitary or aggregated, erect, straightish, longish peduncled, rather 

 densely flowered : berries somewhat immersed, obliquely ovate. 



CourtaUum, forming patches on branches of trees or on moist 

 rocks, flowering in August and September. 



