332 110. PHYTOLACCACES. 
Phytolaeca pekinensis, Hance in Journ. Bot. 1869, p. 166. 
Pireunia Latbenia, Mog. in DC. Prodr. xiii. 2, p. 29 ; Maxim. Ind. Fl. 
Pek. in Prim. Fl. Amur. p. 476. 
Cururr: near Peking (Bunge! Bretschneider!) ; SUINGKING : 
Chienshan (Ross!); Formosa:  Kelung (Wilford, 511!); 
Hvprn: Ichang, Patung, and Nanto (4. Henry!) ; SzECHUEN: 
South Wushan (4. Henry!); Corran AmcuiPELAGO: Port 
Hamilton (Wilford, 657! Oldham, 671!). Mus. Brit.; Herb. 
Kew. . 
North India, wild or cultivated, from Kashmir to Bhotan, and 
in Japan. This is commonly cultivated in China, apparently 
both as an esculent and as a drug. 
111. POLYGONACEX *. 
. 1. Polygonum alatum, Hamilt. ex D. Don. Prodr. Fl. Nep. 
p. 72; Spreng. Syst. Veg. iv. Cur. post. p. 154; Hook. f. Fl. 
Brit. Ind. v. p. 41. 
Polygonum punctatum, ZZamilt. ex D. Don, Prodr. Fl. Nep. p. 72, non 
alior. 
Polygonum nepalense, Meisn. Monogr. Polyg. p. 84, et in DC. Prodr. 
xiv. p. 128; Franch. et Savat. Enum. Pl. Jap. i. p. 598, et ii. p. 480; 
Franchet, Pl. David. p. 255; Wight, Ic. Pl. Ind. Or. t. 1804. 
Cuimir: near Peking (Bullock!); Huren: Patung district 
and Nanto and mountains to the northward (4. Henry!); 
SZECHUEN: mount Omei at 3:00 ft. (Feber !). Mus. Brit.; 
Herb. Kew. 
Afghanistan to Ceylon, Japan, and the Malay Archipelago, 
and in Abyssinia. 
2. Polygonum alpinum, Allioni, Fl. Pedem. ii. p. 206, t. 68. 
f. 1; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. v. p. 49. 
* We have found it impossible to deal satisfactorily with the Chinese 
specimens of Polygonum § Persicaria without examining the whole section, a 
task involving more time than we can devote to one genus in this preliminary 
work. It seems probable, however, that too many species have been made ; 
for, judging from a careful sorting (without dissecting), the limits of P. minus, 
Linn., P. serrulatum, Lag., P. Posumbu, Hamilt., and P. flaccidum, Meisn., are 
very obscure. 
