Polygonum.] CXIX. POLYGONACEX. (J. D. Hooker.) 35 
eglandular, fruit ovoid faces convex. -Meissn. in DC. Prodr, xiv. 1. 115; 
- Dan. t. 282, 
WESTERN HIMALAYA, Falconer; Kumaon, alt. 6400 ft., Strachey & Winter- 
bottom ; Kashmir, Zhomson.—-DIsTRIB. Westward to the Atlantic, N. Asia and 
merica, 
Rootstock creeping, woody. Leaves long petioled and floating, or subsessile and 
aerial, obtuse or acute, serrulate or ciliate, eglandular; stipules glabrous or hispid. 
acemes very stout, 1-2 in. long; peduncle stout; bracts acute obtuse or cuspidate. 
Sepals è in., not nerved, bright red, much longer than the shining nut. 
26. P. lanigerum, Br. Prodr. 419 ; much branched, clothed with 
snow-white cottony tomentum, leaves petioled or sessile narrowly lanceolate 
“cuminate rarely glabrous above, stipules short truncate eciliate, racemes 
-2 in. slender, bracts small crowded glabrous or tomentose eciliate. 
fisen, in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. iii. 55, and in DC. Prodr. xiv.1.117 ; Benth. 
TL Austral. v. 971; Boiss, Fl. Orient. iv. 1030; Wall. Cat. 1714. 
P. natum, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 29, and Fl. Ind. ii. 285. P. arachnoideum, 
otszeh mss, 
In ditches, &c. ; Bexear, Roxburgh, ROHILKUND, Wallich, Thomson, and along 
the lower Himaraya from Sikkim to the Beas River ; Belgaum, Herb, Wight. 
ISTRIB. Java, Philippines, Egypt, Tropical and S. Africa and America, Australia. 
ü tem 2-5, ft., procumbent and creeping below, sometimes much thicker than the 
, umb; branches slender, much divided, divaricating, white, ** deep red within, espe- 
cially at the joints," Roxb. Leaves 4-8 in., finel y acuminate, thickly cottony beneath ; 
stipules membranous, mouth unequal. Racemes in slender divaricate cottony peduncles ; 
St Very small, obtuse or acute, and small red or white perianth eglandular. 
amens 6. Nut orbicular, small, flat, black, shining.—Roxburgh describes this as 
annual, ier calls it annual in his clavis and perennial in his description, others 
latte! ennial; the great size of the rooting base of the stem would indicate the 
Var. glutinosa ; duncles and perianth glandular. P. glutinosum, Wall. Cat. 
I, Meissn, in Wall Pl. As. nb. iii. bs, and in DC. l. c. 120.—Banks of the 
‘pee Wallich,—This appears to me a form of P. lanigerum growing ia dry 
e root is annual. S., Africa. 
27. P. la athifoliu Linn. ; Boiss. Fl. Orient. iv. 1030; annual, 
coe branched, leaves subsessile elliptic-ovate or lanceolate glandular 
neath ciliolate, stipules sparingly ciliate, racemes dense-fld. erect or 
1 p bracts eciliate, pedicels usually glandular, perianth greenish . 
Blandu ar nerves strong, stamens usually 6. Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 1. 
93 Reichb. Te, Crit. e 495; Engl. Bot. t. 1382. 1 
ains of N, I : : westwards to Kashmir, ascenc ing 
a * Himalaya to 7000 &. ; var Jase from BENGAL to the Sutlej, ascending the Hima- 
Ya to 6000 ft, The Concan.—Disrris. W. and N. Asia, Europe, Africa, and America, 
a: nodosa ; taller, mo e branched, spikes oblong, perianth reddish not so 
culate veined, nut smaller, P. nodosum, Pers. ; Meissn. in DC. l. c. 118. P. ma- 
yer 
rimen. . . 
* ara; spik indri . laxum, Reichd. Ic. Crit. v. 56, t. 492. 
times DP E D pbi T boit tf^ Stach ite 
g. 
e P. Persicaria, Linn., Boiss. Fl. Orient. iv. 1030; rr. erect 
