of Polygonum and Fagopyrum. 109 
of the leaves in that species is 43 inches long and 3 inches broad. That plant 
has the heads two together, the peduncles hairy, the flowers 6—8-androus, 
the bracteze and segments of the calyx acute, and the stipules hairy. 
Rogee in Kunawur. 
Subsect. Corymbocephalon. Meisn. 
21. P. chinense. Linn. 
* Octandrum semitrigynum, corymbis simplicibus paniculatisve, pedunculis 
scabriusculis, bracteolis foliaceis cordatis suffultis, foliis subcoriaceis 
ovatis vel oblongis acuminatis basi attenuatis cordatisve, plis minis 
pellucido-punctatis, petiolis brevibus basi appendice foliaceo reniformi 
subdeciduo utrinque auriculatis, caule suffruticoso erecto ramoso glabro." 
— Meisn. 
P. chinense. Linn. Sp. Pl. I. 520. Meisn. in Wall. iii. 60. 
a. Thunbergianum. Meisn. 
P. chinense. Meisn. Mon. 60. 
Stem erect, smooth, striated, branched. Leaves ovate and acuminate, rounded 
and slightly cordate at their base, the margin obsoletely crenulated and 
crisped, glabrous, the nerves beneath being sometimes downy, the 
petioles short, with 2 often very fugacious reniform auricles at their 
base. Stipules semicylindrical, very long, lax, white, often torn, glabrous, 
with numerous parallel nerves, their base glandular. Flowers white, in 
small heads aggregated in a corymbose manner, 5-sepalous, the segments 
acute; 8-androus, semitrigynous ; the bracteæ paleaceous, about equal to 
the flowers; the peduncles covered with minute glandular pubescence, 
and a large white reniform appendage at each subdivision. Fruit about 
3 the length of the calyx, triquetrous, the faces ovate-lanceolate and 
granulated. 
Bhudraj. 
y. brachiatum. Meisn. ? 
P. patens Don, Prod. 73. Meisn. Mon. 60. 
Stem procumbent. Leaves ovate-cordate, the nerves hairy beneath, the mar- 
