of Polygonum and Fagopyrum. 115 
torn, and having very numerous parallel brown, mostly unbranched nerves. 
It is supposed by Professor Royle to be part of the same plant as those which 
I have considered P. aviculare. Should that prove to be the fact, it will go 
far to destroy several species in this genus, by showing the uncertainty of 
characters drawn from the stipules. 
Saharunpore. 
30. P. Roylii. 
Floribus axillaribus parvis pedicello brevissimo, achenio trigono granulato- 
striato calyci æquali, ochreis acutis lobatis haud laceris : venis 2 obsoletis, 
foliis lineari-lanceolatis acutis integris punctis glandulosis numerosissimis, 
caule 3—4-angulato: angulis scabris. 
Stem prostrate, perennial, branched, with 3 or 4 scabrous angles. Leaves 
linear-lanceolate, acute, entire, covered both above and below with pel- 
lucid glandular dots. Stipules rather short, acute, lobed, but scarcely 
torn, with two short nerves. Flowers axillary, small, almost sessile, the 
pedicels jointed just below the flower; the internodes so much shortened 
at the extremities of the branches as to give the appearance of a spiked 
inflorescence. Fruit small, 3-gonous, equal to the calyx; the faces tri- 
angular-ovate, acute, granulate-striate. 
Theog and Phagoo, in June. 
31. P. mucronatum. 
Floribus axillaribus parvis sessilibus, achenio trigono levi, ochreis ovatis 
acutis laceris internodiis longioribus nervis nullis, foliis lanceolato-line- 
aribus longé mucronatis marginibus recurvis, caule pubescenti lignoso. 
P. mucronatum. Royle MSS. 
Stem prostrate, woody, branched, pubescent, the internodes very short. Leaves 
sessile, linear-lanceolate, their margins reflexed, the midrib running out 
into a long pellucid subulate point. Stipules white, longer than the in- 
ternodes, (very rarely shorter,) acute, torn, without any nerves. Flowers 
axillary, small and sessile. Fruit trigonous, smooth, very young on my 
specimens. | 
Chango in Kunawur, in August. 
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