Polygonwm.} POLYGONACEA (Wright). 471 
Eastern REGION : Natal, ex Dammer. 
Also in Tropical Africa, Fropical Asia and Australia, 
16. P. pedunculare (Wall. Cat. no. 1718); stem erect, glabrous 
or slightly puberulous ; leaves oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, cuneate 
at the base, minutely ciliate on the margins, otherwise glabrous, 
thinly membranous, up to 6 in. long and 1 in. wide ; petiole slender, 
} in. long; ochree obtusely truncate, very shortly ciliate at the 
mouth only, membranous, strongly nerved; panicle terminal, 
pseudo-dichotomous, axis finely glandular ; bracteoles ovate, very 
short, ciliate, brown, membranous; pedicels about as long as or 
shorter than the bracteoles; perianth-lobes oblong, obtuse ; 
stamens 5; styles 2, united about half-way ; nutlet orbicular, 
biconvex, straw-coloured. Wight, Ic. t. 1802 ; Meisn. in DC. Prodr. 
xiv. 133, partly ; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. v. 48; Gage in Rec, Bot. 
Surv. Ind, ii. 426; Schuster in Bull. Herb. Boiss, 2™° sér. viii. 710 ; 
Baker & C. H. Wright in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. vi. i. 107. 
Katanart Rearon: Transvaal ; Hooge Veld, Bronkers Spruit, Rehmann, 6577, 
Vilgeris to Porter, Rehmann, 6585. 
Also in Tropical Africa, Tropical Asia and Australia, 
17. P. hystriculum (Schuster in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 2" sér. viii. 
705); stem erect, 12-20 in. high, reddish-fuscous, glabrous, 
thickened at the nodes; internodes 4-9 lin. long ; ochree naked, 
ciliate at the mouth with very rigid sete nearly 1 lin. long ; leaves 
8-24 in. long, 2-34 lin. wide, narrowly lanceolate, tapering into 
the petiole, when young scabrous with adpressed bristles, when 
adult scabrous only on the margin and midrib, containing crystals of 
calcium oxalate, central part black ; spikes dense, 9-18 lin. long, erect 
or inclined ; bracts turbinate, contiguous, naked at the mouth, rarely 
with a few sete at the mouth ; pedicels naked ; perianth rose-coloured, 
veins straight or subarcuate ; stamens 6 ; style bipartite above, arms 
subarcuate, } longer than the perianth ; nutlet orbicular, shining, 
1 lin. long ; cotyledons accumbent. 
. Western Rearon : Great Namaqualand ; Hinaab, Fleck, 323a, 
18. P. acuminatum, var. capense (Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 114) ; 
stem erect, branched, terete, with adpressed hairs when young, 
afterwards glabrous; leaves lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, 5 in. 
long, 9 lin. wide, acuminate, shortly cuneate at the base, at first 
sparsely short-hairy above, finally scabrous only on the principal 
nerves and margin, glandular beneath ; ochree tubular, 1 in. long, 
truncate, densely clothed with adpressed hairs, ciliate at the mouth 
with bristles 4 lin. long; racemes 2-3 at or near the apex of the 
stem, on pubescent peduncles 1}-2 in. long ; flowers few in a cluster ; 
pedicels slightly longer than the bracts ; bracts 1 lin. long, rounded, 
ciliate ; perianth 2 lin. long, pink ; segments oblong, obtuse ; 
