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I. THE BEOWN BISTORT. 
(roLyGo:NUM crunonis.) 
11. THE BILBEPvEY-LEAVED BISTOET. 
(POLYGO^a^M YACCINIIFOUUM.) 
A Pair of handsome Hardy Herhaccous Plants, from Nefal, lehnging to the Natural 
Order of Buckwheats. 
I. THE ^i20 WW BISTORT.— Stems perenmaU creeping, [ POLYGONUM BRUNONIS ; caulibus perennibus rep- 
tantibus asceadentibus, foliis glabris oblongo-lanceolatis 
rising up at the points. Leaves smooth, obiong-lanceolate, 
narrowed to the base, slightly serrated. Spikes terminal, 
narrow, somewhat broken, solitary. 
Lasi angustatis serrulatis, spiels teminalibus elongatis 
interruptis solitariis. 
Polvgonum Brunonis : Walllch Cat, No, 16D2. Meismr in Wallicli Plantce Adaticm rariora, III., 54. 
Koyle, Illasiraiiom of the IIimalaya3y t, 80,/. 3. 
II. THE BILBERRY ^LBAYED BISTORT, — Stems pe- POLYGONUM VACCINIIFOLIUM ; caulibus peremu- 
renniftly creeping, ascending. Leaves ovate, tapered to 
each end, shining, quite entire. Spikes long, tliin, with 
the lower flowers distant from each other. 
bus reptantibus ascendentibus, foliis ovatis utrinque 
attenuatis lucidis integerrimis, spicis elongatis teuuibus 
floribus inferioribus remotis. 
Polygonum vacclniifolium : Wallkh Catalogue, No. 1695. Meimer in PUnU As., III., 54. Moyle's Illu^tratiom, L 80, /. 2. 
rTHESE two beautiful little plants belong to tlie same race as our own cliarmi 
mountams 
occur on such mountains 
Mussooree, Clioor, Ki 
and on the Kherang 
(P, viviparum). This 
Euiop 
occur 
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