476. POLYGONACE (Wright). [ Rumen. 
pedicels short, jointed at the apex ; inner perianth-segments ovate, 
entire. Thunb. Prodr. 67, and Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 341; Meisn. in 
Linnea, xiv. 496, and in DO. Prodr. xiv. 63; Drége, Zwei Pf. 
Documente, 107 ; Engl. Bot. ed. 3, t. 1224; Bolus d&: Wolley-Dod in 
Trans. S. Afr. Phil. Soc. xiv. 311. 
SoutH Arrica: without locality, Burke. 
Coast Rraion: Cape Div. ; Rondebosch, between the Steen Berg and Con- 
stantia, below 1000 ft., Drége! Wynberg Flats, Alexander Prior! Westen- 
ford, Wolley-Dod, 1896! Tokay, Ecklon, 711! Humansdorp Div. ; Storms River, 
600 ft., Galpin, 4430! 
Katanarti Recion: Transvaal; Bezuidenhout Valley, Johannesberg, (Gilfillan, 
in Herb. Galpin, 7235! Pretoria Kopjes, Miss Leendertz, 956 ! 
Eastern Recion: Tembnland ; Cala, 4000 ft., Miss Pegler, 1685! Natal ; 
Mooi River, 4000 ft., Wood, 4032! 
Almost cosmopolitan. 
8. R. lativalvis, var. acetosoides (Meisn. in Linnza, xiv. 497) ; 
root tuberous ; stem }—2 ft. or more high, erect, glabrous, often 
flexuous ; leaves hastate, terminal lobe oblong-lanceolate, 1—2 in. 
long, 4-6 lin. wide, 3-4 times as large as the ovate or oblong 
lateral ; petiole of lowest leaves 3-4 in. long; uppermost leaves 
lanceolate or linear ; panicle monccious, leafless ; pedicels capillary, 
1-3 lin. long, patent, jointed below the middle; inner perianth- 
segments broadly triangular-ovate becoming almost reniform, 2 lin. 
long, 2-3 lin. wide, entire, naked, nerves very slender, Meisn. in 
DC. Prodr, xiv. 67 ; Drége, Zwei PA. Documente, 90, 106. 
Var. B, decipiens (Meisn. in Linnmwa, xiv. 497); lobes of the leaves linear or 
narrowly lanceolate, lateral half as long as the terminal but sometimes wider 
and often curved upwards. Drége, Zwei Pf. Documente, 100, 112. 
SoutH Arrica: without locality, Oldenburg ! 
Coast Reeton : Clanwilliam Div, ; Clanwilliam 300 ft., Schlechter, 8408 | Cape 
Div. ; Rondebosch to Hout Bay, under 1009 ft., Drege; var. B: Cape Div. ; 
between Paarden Island, Tygerberg and Blueberg, under 500 ft., Drege; Paarl 
Diy. ; Klein Drakenstein Mountains, under 1000 ft., Drége! Uitenhage, Harvey! 
WesteRN Recron : Little Namaqualand ; Silver Fontein, near Ookiep, Drége ! 
9. R. cordatus (Desf, Cat. Hort. Par. ed. ii. 40); root pyriform ; 
stem annual, subsimple, erect, ribbed ; lower leaves cordate-ovate, 
obtuse, 1} in. long, 1} in, wide, on a petiole 14 in. long, entire, 
glabrous, cauline hastate, smaller; panicle terminal, _ leafless ; 
branches erect ; flowers polygamo-diccious in lax whorls ; pedicels 
slender, jointed at the middle; inner perianth-segments broadly 
ovate, entire, strongly reticulate. Poir. Eneycl. Suppl. iv. 324; 
Drége, Zwei Pf. Docwmente, 67, 112, 115; Meisn. in Linnea, xiv. 
500, and in DC. Prodr. xiv. 68; Bolus & Wolley-Dod in Trans. 
S. Afr. Phil. Soe. xiv. 312. R. tuberosus, Thunb. Prodr. 67, and 
Fl, Cap. ed. Schult. 341, not of Linn. R. sarcorhizus, Link, Enum. i, 
351; Meisn, in Linnea, xiy, 501, 
