Polygonum.] ^ cxix. POLYGONACE. (J. D. Hooker.) 33 
flowering stems 2-3 ft. very slender, leaves large long-petioled ovate-cordate 
caudate-acuminate crenulate upper amplexicaul, racemes very long-peduncled 
erect, bracts ovate, styles free slender. Meissn. in Wall. Pi, As. Rar. iii. 54, 
andin DC. Prodr. xiv. 1.126 ; Bab. in Trans. Linn, Soc, xviii. 96 ; Bot. Reg. 
1839, t. 46; Bot. Mag. t. 6500. P. oxyphyllum, Wall. Cat. 1715; Meissn. 
$ UE ambiguum, Meissn. ll. c.; Wight Ic. t. 1797. P. petiolatum, Don 
: €. fid. Bab, 
TEMPERATE HIMALAYA ; from Murree, alt. 6-8000 ft., to Sikkim, alt. 9-13,000 ft. 
Rootstock stout, woody, branched. Stems 2-3 ft., green, sparingly leafy. Lower 
leaves 3-6 in, long, minutely papillose beneath, especially on the nerves; stipules 
1-2 in., narrow, tips torn. Racemes 1-2, 2-6 in. long. Flowers red, white or 
greenish-white, 41 in, diam. S¢amens 8, anthers exserted. Ovary 3-gonous. 
ar. speciosa; flowers larger, j in. diam., deep purplish-red or claret-coloured. 
P. speciosum, Wall. Cat, 1716 ; Meissn. il. c.—Occurs throughout the range of the 
` *Pecies, and is the only form found hitherto in Sikkim, the specimens from whence are 
Very stout. In Nepal it occurs in a large branched form. 
21. P. affine, Don Prodr. 70, excl. syn.; glabrous, densely tufted, 
flowering stems 4-12 in., leaves sessile or shortly petioled linear- or elliptic- 
anceolate or oblanceolate acute or obtuse crenulate glaucous beneath cauline 
W, racemes shortl peduncled stout erect, flowers suberect, styles free 
slender, eissn. Monog. Polyg. 52, and in DC. Prodr. xiv. 1, 126; Bab. in 
ans. Linn, Soc, xviii. 97; Bot. Mag. t. 6472. P. Brunonis, Wail. Cat. 
1692; Royle Ill. 317, t. 80, £. 3; Meissn. in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. ii. 54; 
Lidl. & Past. Fl. Gard. ii. t. 37; Lemaire Jard, Fleur. t. 117. P. Do- 
manum, Spreng. Syst. Cur. post, 154. 
ALPINE andS UBALPINE HIMALAYA; from Kashmir, alt, 8-14,000 ft, eastward 
umaon, alt, 11-13 ft. WESTERN TIBET. 
Rootstock woody, long: bran ched, often tortuous, and 4-8 in. long ; crown clothed 
with scarious old stipules. Leaves chiefly radical, 2-4 in., narrowed into the petio e, 
bro, reticulate, margins recurved; stipules }-1 in., entire or split, any eed , 
Town, P eduncles 3-8 in. usually stout. Racemes 2-3 in., obtuse, flowers mE d, 
H in. diam, Sepals elliptic-oblong. Nut 3-gonous.—Iskardo and Kashmir 
*Pecimens attain 16 in. in height. 
22. p. vacciniifolium, Wall. Cat. 1695; tufted, glabrous, branches 
trailing and creeping, leaves shortly petioled small orbicular or elliptic acute 
s both ends or acuminate quite entire, stipules rigid laciniate with many 
vag strong excurrent nerves, racemes subsessile, styles filiform e 
pm. in Wall, Pl. As. Rar. iii. 54, and in DC. Prodr. xiv. 1. 126; Bove 
Fr 317, t. 80, f£. 2; Bab. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xviii. 96; Lindl. § Pact. 
: Gard. ii. 37; Bot, Mag. t. 4622. 
Wage ERATE and SUBALPINE HIMALAYA; from Kashmir to Bhotan, alt. 9-14,000 ft. 
~ LIBET; Ladak, alt. 14-16,500 ft., Stewart. — 
den otstock sometimes as thick as the little finger and twisted, usually longer iore 
sti der and much branched ; branches leafy. Leaves 4-3 in., rather glande DES 
pales 31-1 in., brown, giving a crinite appearance to the tips of the young ier 
emes ns In. ; bracts acuminate p flowers rose-red, 3 in, doris s tamer sufficiently 
distinguishable or S vars, obtusifolium, medium, and flage A 
23. P. emodi, Meisen, ; „ii. 51, 54, t. 287, and in 
7 Meissn. il. Pl. As. Rar. iii. 51, 54, t. 287, 
DC. £ Tod», xiv, 1.197; gla ue. rootatoók elongate, branches trailing Ms 
~Ping, leaves subsessi e rigid linear-lanceolate acuminate at ada 
auite entire striate-nerved, stipules long membranous acuminate many 
“so peduncled, stamens included, flowers pedicelled, npe free 
