290 OCTANDRIA TRIGYNIA. Polygonum. 
with fascicles of flowers rather remote. © Stamens eight. 
Style three-cleft. Seed three-sided. 
Teling. Kunda-malilier. 
Itisa native of moist, or wet places amongst the 
mountains. 
Stems several, erect, ramous, slender, smooth, from 
three to four feet high, joints a little swelled. Leaves 
short-petioled, lanceolar, smooth, from three to five in- 
ches long. Stipules as long asin P. tomentosum, mouth 
much ciliate, the whole outside hairy. Racemes terminal, 
long, twiggy, short-peduncled ; fascicles of flowers rather 
remote. Bractes as in the former species, the exterior 
one ciliate and hairy. Flowers rose colour, numerous, 
in succession from the same set of bractes, octandrous. 
Style three-cleft, length of the stamens. Seed three-sid- 
ed. 
Cattle are fond of all these four species, ee 
11. P. rivulare.. Kon. Mss. ay 
Annual ; branches erect. Leaves narrow-lanceolate, 
pretty aoa. Stamens eight. Style three-cleft, Seed 
three-sided. ill 
Velutta modela muccu. Rheed. Mal. 12. t, 76. 
_ Annual, a native of similar places with the last two 
species, has nearly the same appearance and habit, _ but 
is rather more slender than even P. glabrum. pigne 
Leaves narrow-lanceolate, entire, pretty smooth ; from 
five to sixincheslong. Stipules short, obliquely | lobe 
much ciliate. | Racemesas in the last described spe® 
Bractes as in the former two, the exterior one is here 
bearded. Flowers numerous, crowded, from three to four 
to the set of bractes, also in succession. Stamens eight 
Style three-cleft, twice as long as the stamens. ; 
three-sided. 
Note. The three-sided seed and three-cleft te i as a 
tinguish it from P, tomentosum. : . 
