of Polygonum and Fagopyrum. 99 
crateriformibus, foliis ovatis acuminatis in petiolum. subdecurrentibus 
utrinque ochreisque et caule ramoso alto molliter pilosis." 
P. orientale. Linn. Sp. Pl. I. 519. Meisn. in Wall. iii. 54. 
“ B. pilosum, Meisn. Spicis nonnunquam erectis strictiusculis, floribus me- 
diocribus, linea in achenii angulis subobsoletà, pube ubique copiosiore 
longiore sæpiùs ferè aureo-sericeà sublanugineá."— Meisn. 
P. pilosum. “ Roxb. Hort. Bengal. 29.“ Meisn. Mon. 54. 
P. orientale g. pilosum. Meisn. in Wall. iii. 54. e. 
Stem erect, branched, thick and woody, deeply sulcate, densely hairy. Leaves 
ovate, acute, upon long stalks, which, together with both surfaces of the 
leaves, are covered with a dense silky pubescence. Stipules long, spreading 
at the top, blunt, densely covered with hair. Flowers in narrow, linear, 
dense, long panicled spikes, with hairy peduncles; bractez ovate, slightly 
pointed, hairy, finely ciliated and many-flowered, each pedicel jointed 
just below the flower, and having a rather long paleaceous scale at its 
base, flowers small, their segments ovate obtuse; style semibifid. Fruit 
lenticular, compressed, its faces round and pointed, smooth, shining, the 
rounded angles have a minute keel near their base. 
«. grandiflorum. Meisn. P. orientale of his Mon., p. 53, does not occur 
amongst Prof. Royle's specimens. 
Gathered on the banks of the Ganges, July 1820, and near water during the 
rains at Saharunpore. 
Sect. 3. Persicaria. Meisn. 
8. P. lanigerum. R. Br. 
4 Spicis paniculatis cylindricis densifloris, bracteis pubescentibus muticis 
pedicellos subzequantibus, floribus 8-andris semi-2-vel 3-gynis, calyce 
eglanduloso 4—5-fido, achenio lenticulari rariis 3-quetro, ochreis cane- 
scentibus ciliatis, foliis lanceolatis subtüs incano-tomentosis suprà ramis- 
que incanis, caule erecto ramoso basi glabro radicante crasso sulcato."— 
Meisn. | 
P. lanigerum. R. Br. Prod. Fl. Nov. Holl. i. 419. Meisn. Mon. 70. Meisn. 
in Wall. iii. 55. 
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