of Polygonum and Fagopyrum. 95 
rather opake and minutely granulate-striate; the fruit of the trigynous 
flowers is probably 3-gonal, but none of such occurs on our specimens. 
This species may be distinguished from its near ally P. viviparum, by its 
fruit, the length of its filaments, and by the density of the seed-bearing part 
of its spike. In that plant the fruit is 3-quetrous, and its faces are ovate- 
lanceolate, smooth and shining, the filaments are twice as long as the calyx, . 
and the whole spike is lax, slender, and elongated. 
Lippa in Kunawur. 
2. P. macrophyllum. Don. 
Spica compacta densa cylindrica vel ovata, bracteis ovatis pedicellis brevioribus: 
infimis quàm superioribus sæpè longioribus acuté acuminatis pedicellis 
superantibus, staminibus calycem æquantibus, stylo profunde tripartito, 
achenio trigono levi nitido, foliis lanceolatis obtusis in margine revolutis 
costato-crenatis inferioribus petiolatis. 
P. macrophyllum. Don, Prod. Fl. Nep. 70. Meisn. Mon. Gen. Polyg. 51. 
P. sphærostachyum. Meisn. in Wall. Pl. Asiat. Rar. iii. 53, non Meisn. 
Mon. 53. 
Stem simple, striated, smooth, a foot or more in height. 
the apex itself obtuse, the margins reflexed and marked 
as in P. bulbiferum, the under side often slightly downy, the lower 
the upper ones sessile and narrower. Stipules 
the apex rounded and 
Leaves lanceolate, 
with false crenu- 
lations, 
leaves upon long stalks, 
long, cylindrical, splitting on one side above, 
slightly acute. Flowers larger than those of P. viviparum, upon rather 
long stalks jointed just below the flower, red, in a dense compact spike 
which is not gemmiferous; the flowers 5-fid, their segments obtuse, 
stamens 8, about as long or rather longer than the calyx ; style divided 
into three parts, but scarcely to its base, and shorter than the calyx, 
the bractez ovate, and shorter than the pedicels ; some of the lower ones 
often having a long acute point by which they are made to exceed the 
pedicels. Fruit 3-gonous, smooth, shining ; in a very young state in our 
specimens. 
Kedarkanta in September, and the Chandow Pass in July. 
