Polygonum. OCTANDRIA TRIGYNIA. ' 291 
a2. PB; flaccidum. R, 
Annual, flaccid, smooth, Leaves lanceolate, with cor- 
date base, smooth. Stipules long, ciliate. Stamens eight. 
Style three-cleft, Seed three-sided. 
Beng. Panee-murich. 4 
A native of ditches, &c. near Calcutta; flowering time 
ae wet season, 
_ Stem scarcely any, but many, slender, straggling, 
etiaate jointed, round branches. Leaves sessile, from the 
base of the stipules, lanceolate, with the base cordate, en- 
tire, and smooth on both.sides ; from one to six inches long, 
Stipules, bristles on the outside; mouths long ciliate. 
Racemes terminal, subcylindric, crowded with small, 
white flowers. Bractes ciliate. Stamens eight. Style half 
three-cleft. Seed three-sided, smooth, of a dark brown 
colour, 
13. P. elegans. R. 
Perennial, prostrate, Leaves lanceolar. Flowers axilla- 
ty, crowded. Stamens eight. Stigma three-cleft. Seed 
three-sided. 
_ A native of dry, uncultivated ground, aj i eee and 
flowering chiefly in the dry season, 
Root simple, very long, yellow. Stems numerous, pros- 
trate, from six to twelve inches long. Branches numerous, 
bifarious. Leaves alternate, bifarious, very short-petiol- 
ed, lanceolar, dotted with small glandular points, smooth, 
Margins red ; about halfan inch long. Stipules sheathing, 
membranaceous;mouth torn, and ciliated. Bractes sheath- 
ing, membranaceous. Flowers axillary, peduncled, 
small, tose-coloured, octandrous. Calyx, the three inte- 
rior divisions obtuse, the two exterior pointed. Styles 
three, very short. — three-sided, with sharp red 
14, P. horridum. Tick, 
; dent, angular; the angles armed with 
sharp aculei, Leaves sessile, linear, with a cordat 
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