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POLYGONUM frutescens. 
Shrubhy Polygonum. 
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OCTANDRIA TRIGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. Ротусомеж. Jussieu gen. 82, Brown prod. 419. 
POLYGONUM. (Cal. 0.) Cor. profundé 5-fida, (nunc 4-fida,) 
semi-calycina. Stam. 4-9. Stylus 2-3-partitus. Stigmata totidem, capi- 
tata. Nux corolla {guandoque baccatá) tecta. Emöryo unilateralis. 
Негро, raris Frutices. Folia alterna, basi vaginantia, aut vagine 
intra foliacee adnata, juniora subtús revoluta. Brown prod. 419. 
Div. Atraphaxoides, caule frutescente. 
P. frutescens, caule fruticoso, foliis lanceolatis utrinque attenuatis, ochres 
lanceolata internodiis breviore, petalis binis exterioribus minoribus re- 
exis. Wild. sp. pl. 2. 440. 
Polygonum frutescens, Linn. sp. pl. 1. 516. Hort. Kew. 2. 99. ed. 9. 2. 
416. Gaertn. зет. 2. 182. #. 119. f. 5. 
Polygonum fruticosum, floribus pentapetalis, octandris, trigynis, 2 exter- 
nis petalis reflexis, ramis in extremo inermibus. Gmel. sib. 3. 60. t. 12. 
Jig. 2. 
Atraphaxis inermis foliis planis, . Hort. cliff: 138. 
Lapathum orientale, frutex humilis, flore pulchro. Tournef. cor. 38. 
Amm. in comment, petropol. 14. 400. tab. 13. . 
Lapathum dauricum montanum, fruticans, ramis lató sparsis. Amm. ruth. 
227. 
Frutex pedalis ad sesquicubitalem, omnind de basi ramosus, ramis пите- 
rosis, virgatis, levibus, pallidis, teretibus. Folia spathulato-lanceolata, 
pruinosa, in petiolum altenuata, mucronato-acuta, obsoleté nervosa, subun- 
cialia, aliquotiós angustiora quàm lata, margine repanda v. obsolete sube 
dentata: petioli breves: ochrem subulato-biacuminate. Flores roseo-pal- 
dentes, trini, aggregati, axillares, fasciculi in racemum longum, foliosum 
remotiusculum digestis bracteæ plures breves, pedicellorum bases cingentes, 
Jurfurose ; pedicelli rubri, glabri, tenues, nudi, bis-ter-v. ultra breviores 
foliis vix longiores corollá, floriferi erectiusculi, fructiferi dependentes. Cor. 
erecta, 5-partita, basi extls breve turbinata: lac. disco et venis sanguinea, 
ambitü albicantes; 9 exteriores duplo minores magisve, deflezee, ovato- 
rotunda, profund? concave, medio dorsi virentes; interiores 3 subrolunde, 
undulata, persistentes, sole in capsulam triquelram rubicundiorem pro semine 
Sovendo arct? conniventes. Fil. 8, disco corolle inserta, subinaqualia, firma, 
lanceolato-subulata, glabra, basi carnosa atque sanguinco-rubra, longiora 
paulo breviora corolla. Anth. parva, lutee, subrotundo-didyme, primo in- 
cumbentes, ind? erecta, introverse. Germ. rubrum, ovali-prismaticum, luci- 
dum, brevius filamentis: stylus subnullus sanguineus; stigmata lobi 3, crassi, 
subrotundi, pallidè rosei, pruinosi, uno versi _inclinantes. . Sem. nudum 
castaneum, formå germinis, nitens, acutum, está crustaceo-cortaceá. 
The present is a hardy shrub, and belongs to a species 
which forms one of а section of the genus that comprises 
