Calligonum.] CXIX. POLYGONACEE. (J. D. Hooker.) 93 
very slender branchlets, leaves most minute bristles at the distant nodes, 
nuts oblong hard densely clothed with many series of branching intricate 
rigid red-brown flexuous bristles. Boiss. Fl. Orient. iv. 1000. 
The PANJAB, Edgeworth, Talbart; Salt Range, alt. 2000 ft., Stewart. SCINDE, 
Stocks; Boogtee Hills, J'icary.—DrsTRIB. Persia, Armenia, Syria. 
Flowering branches about as thick as a crow-quill or less, internodes 1-14 in. long ; 
pedicels 4-4 in.; sepals about as long. Fruit 3-1 in. diam. including the shaggy 
branched bristles, nucleus about iin. . l 
2. PTEROPYRUM, Jaub. § Spach. 
Rigid shrubs. Zeaves small, alternate or fascicled, linear or spathulate ; 
ochrea very short or obsolete. Flowers small, ochreate, 2-sexual. Sepals 
s subequal. Stamens 8. Ovary 3-angled, acuminate; styles 3. ` Nut 
roadly 3-winged, beaked. Seed beaked, base broad; embryo eccentric, 
cotyledons oblong, short.—Species 5-6, Western Asiatic. 
P. Oliveri, Jaub. 5: Spach. Ill. Plant. Orient. ii. 9, t. 108; leaves 
fascicled thick glaucous obovate oblong spathulate or linear-oblong obtuse 
witreless, nut broadly 6-winged in two superposed series of wings, the lower 
Wings broadest. Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 1.31; Boiss. Fl. Orient. iv. 
; Wight Ic. t. 1809. P. Griffithii, Meissn. l.c. Atraphacis sp., Aitchison 
Cat, PI. Panjab. 125. 
SCINDE, Vicary, Stocks.—DisTRIB. Affghanistan, Persia. 
An excessively branched shrub, branchlets white. Leaves 3-3 in. margins often 
a. Clusters many-fld., sessile; flowers shortly pedicelled. Fruit i in. 
us nearly circular in outline; each angle of the nut with 2 superposed wings 
whiten about by the 3-gonous nucleus twisting as the wings grow, the effect of 
ris that each vertical wing is as it were cut in two in the middle, and the upper 
a the wing of one angle alternates with the lower half of the wing of another 
3. POLYGONUM, Linn. 
, Herbs, rarel undershrubs. Leaves alternate, entire, rarely lobed; 
Stipules tubular, membranous, rarely minute and 2-fid. Flowers 2-sexual, 
or minute, clustered; clusters axillary or terminal, bracteate and - 
Tacteolate, axillary and sessile, or in spiciform capitate or panicled racemes; 
cel short usually jointed under the perianth; bracts and bracteoles 
pembranoug, ochreate. Disk glandular or 0. Perianth 4-5- rarely 3-cleft, 
outer sepals usually smallest. Stamens 5-8, rarely 1-4, perge 
ation”. Compressed or 3-gonous; styles 2 or 3, free or combined low, 
Alesha’ usually capitellate. Vut included in the more or less enlarged (rare Į 
13) perianth, trigonous or biconvex. Seed albuminous; embryo lateral, 
" cle long, cotyledons small (rarely large), flat, accumbent, rarely 1ncum- 
-—Species about 150, in all latitudes. 
d, Seay troubles i i ich have’ been much con- 
om , the Indian species of which have € 
ot p I cannot hope’ that I have finally settled the limits of those especially 
Polygon aria and Avicularia sections, Kænigid is regarded as a section 0 
m. 
7 KEY TO THE SECTIONS. 
E Stipules minute 2-partite. igmas 
su Set. 1, KawrGra. A minute annual Flowers in terminal cisstéet,: B : 
€. Nut Subterete.— Sp. 1. ES 
