Polygonum. OCTANDRIA TRIGYNIA. ; 289 
7. P. chinense. Willd. 2. 453. 
Scandent, flexuose. Leaves oblong, with tanelie 
base. Bractes ear-shaped. Peduncles terminal, sub- 
panicled ; flowers in globular pedicelled heads. 
A native of the eastern parts of Bengal. Flowers in 
February, March, and April. 
8. P. cymosum. R. 
' Shrubby, scandent, ramous. Leaves ovate-lanceclate, — 
entire, acute, smooth. Cymes terminal ; flowers in small 
heads, octandrous. 
A native of Chittagong, where it flowers in April. 
Sect. 2. Style three-cleft. Seed three-sided. 
9. P. tenellum. R. 
Annual, flaccid, ramous. Leaves lanceolar, with beard- 
ed sheaths. Racemes filiform, fascicles of flowers remote. 
Tube of the corol internally ribbed. Stamens from seven 
tocight. Styles three. Seed three-sided. 
’ Found in ditches, &c. low wet places all over Bengal, 
Flowering time the rainy season. 
Root fibrous, often biennial, if not perennial. Stems 
several, ramous, weak and straggling, slender, and 
Smooth. Leaves subsessile, lanceolar, entire, smooth. 
Stipules on the outside furrowed, otherwise smooth, hay- 
ing their mouths crowned with long distinct filaments. 
Racemes terminal, often subpanicled, filiform. Bractes 
tather remote, obliquely truncated, ciliate, outside glan- 
dular. Flowers small, white. Corol, the mouth of its tube 
Contracted with ridges, alternate, with the insertions 
Of the filaments. Stamens eight. Styles three. Seed 
three-sided. ! 
° . 
10. P. barbatum. Willd. 2. 447. oe 
Branches erect, ramous, smooth. Leaves lanceolar, : 
Smooth. Stipules bearded, and hairy. Tage, 
Kk 
