Polygonum, OCTANDRIA TRIGYNIA. . 286- 
OCTANDRIA TRIGYNIA. 
POLYGONUM. Schreb. gen. n. 677. 
Calyx none. Corol ig abi resembling a calyx. 
Seed solitary. 
Sect, Style two-cleft. Seed without angles. 
1. P. nutans. R. 
Annual, suberect, ramous. Leaves lanceolate. Sti- 
pules not bearded. Corols four-cleft. Stamens five. 
Styles two, Seed roundish, compressed. . 
Several plants came up accidentally in the Botanic 
garden at Calcutta, but from whence the seed came I — 
cannot be certain. 
Stem short, erect, soon dividing into any: first spread- 
ing, then ascending branches, covered with red bark, 
and maculated with still darker red, with a few short, 
white, stiff hairs, scattered over every part, as also over 
the underside of the nerves of the leaves, Leaves short- 
petioled, lanceolate, margins a little curled, and some- 
what waved. Stipules membranaceots, smooth, trun- 
cated, not ciliate. Racemes terminal, and from the ex- 
terior axils, cylindric, nodding, most completely covered 
_ With numerous, small, white flowers. Bractes somewhat 
fringed. Corols four-cleft, opposite ; divisions a little 
Unequal. Stamens five. Styles two. Seed roundish, 
Pointed, much compressed, smooth. 
2. P. lanatum. R. 
' Procumbent, with erect branches, Leaves linear-lan- 
ceolate, woolly; sheathes lacerated. Corol four-cleft. 
Styles two-cleft, Stamens six. Seeds rod, compressed. — 
Beng, Swet-panee-murich. 
Annual, growing in ditches, &c. near Chea Aino 
fowering during the rains. | 
