468 POLYGONACEA (Wright). | Polygonum. 
9. P. meisnerianum (Cham. & Schlecht. in Linnea, iii. 40) ; 
herbaceous ; stem erect, branched, terete, furnished (especially at 
the nodes) with retrorse hairs; ochre up to 9 lin. long, truncate 
and shortly ciliate at the mouth, sparsely hairy ; leaves shortly 
petioled, narrowly lanceolate, more or less cordate or hastate at the 
base, about 3 in. long and 6 lin. wide, sparsely hairy ; clusters of 
flowers arranged in terminal lax pseudodichotomous panicles ; rhachis 
slender, covered with stalked glands; bracts small, glandular ; 
perianth rosy, 2 lin. long ; lobes 5, elliptic, obtuse ; stamens 5-8, 
much shorter than the perianth ; ovary triquetrous ; style 3-partite ; 
stigmas capitate; nutlet triquetrous, smooth, shining. Meisn. in 
Mart. Fl. Bras. v. i. 19, t. 1, fig. 2, and in DC. Prodr. xiv. 132. 
P. chamisseanum, Wedd. in Ann. Sci. Nat. 3 sér, xiii. 24. 2H 
refractum, Mart. ea Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 132. 
Kaanarr Recion : Transvaal ; near Lydenburg, Wilms, 1283! Hooge Veld, 
Rehmann, 6585! Belfast, pools at Lakenvlei, Burtt-Davy, 1319! 
Also in Brazil. 
10. P. lanigerum (R. Br. Prodr. 419); perennial ; stem stout, 
erect, 4-5 ft. high, white-tomentose upwards ; leaves shortly 
petioled, lanceolate, acute, clothed densely beneath and thinly 
above with persistent white tomentum, the lower 6-9 in. long, 
14 in. broad at the middle; ochree long, membranous, ciliate ; 
racemes dense or moderately dense, oblong or oblong-cylindrical, 
1-3 in. long ; bracts orbicular, shortly ciliate ; peduncles pubescent, 
eglandular ; perianth eglandular, 14-2 lin. long; stamens usually 6 ; 
styles 2; nut lenticular, orbicular, black, shining. Meisn. in Linnea, 
xiv. 485, and in DC. Prodr. xiv. 117 ; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. v. 35 5 
Benth. Fl. Austral. v. 271; Gage in Ree. Bot. Surv. Ind. ii. 424. 
KaLAHARI Recion : Bechuanaland ; banks of the Moshowing River between 
Takun and Molito, Burchell, 2281! 
Eastern Recion : Natal ; Pondoland ; between Umtata River and St. Johns 
River, Drége! Umgazi River, Miss Pegler, 1562 ! Umhlanga, Wood, 1234! Durban 
Flats, Mudd! Wood in MacOwan & Bolus, Herb. Norm. Austr.-Afr. 1847 ! 
Rehmann, 8748! 
11. P. glutinosum, var. capense (Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 120); 
stem ascending, branched, glabrescent ; leaves lanceolate, 4-5 in. 
long, 1 in. wide, the lower whitish hairy on both surfaces, the upper 
glabrescent on both surfaces, densely fuscous glandular-punctate 
beneath, nerves densely adpressed hirsute ; ochree shortly ciliate ; 
racemes usually in pairs, narrowly cylindrical, dense-flowered ; 
perianth-segments 4, glandular-punctate outside; stamens 6; 
nutlet lenticular. P. glutinosum, Meisn. in Linnea, xiv. 484. 
Coast Recon : Komgha Div. ; banks of the Kei River, 500 ft., Drége. 
The type in India. 
12. P. tomentosum (Willd. Sp. Pl. ii. 447) ; perennial ; stems 
stout, hairy, 3-4 ft. long; leaves shortly petioled, oblong-lanceolate, 
