Plants of the Punjab. 227 
Heres, Erect, WITH ALTERNATE STIPULATE SIMPLE LEAVES. 
Polygonum orientale, 
POLYGONACER. 
RoB:; Ew... 30. 
The Plains to 
5,000 ft., 
in Swamps. 
Polygonum 
virginianum, 
PoOLYGONACER. 
Habs lev.3. 
Himalaya. 
Kashmir. 
Jhelum River, 
2-4 ,000 ft. 
Pir Panjal Range, 
7-10,500 ft. 
(Stewart). 
Polygonum glabrum, 
PoLYGONACEA. 
he Biel ye S4; 
The Plains to 
6,000 ft. 
Simla, in ditches 
(Collett). 
Polygonum 
lanigerum, 
Lear Marains ENTIRE. 
PETALS NONE. 
large, annual, velvety or silky-hairy, stems grooved, 
branches hollow-stemmed ; leaves 6-9 by 2-5 in., ovate, 
or ovate-heart-shaped, long-pointed, grey with hairs, leaf 
stalk 1-4 in., sometimes winged, stipules tubular, short, 
hairy, ending abruptly, mouth thin, papery, or dilated, 
ereen, curved back; flowers small, red, white or green, 
in crowded erect or drooping cylindric racemes 2-4 in. 
long, forming large terminal branched clusters, bracts 
hairy, ovate, flat, 3-6 flowers in the axil of each bract, 
calyx (perianth) of 4-5 segments, petals non», stamens 
7 or 8, alternating with small honey secreting glands, er- 
closed in the calyx, styles 2, united half way up ; nut round, 
1 in. diam., flattened with concave faces, coat very thick, 
3 
black, shiny. 
large, perennial, roughly hairy, branches hollow-stem- 
med ; leaves 4-10 in., broad and tapering equally to either 
end, thin, leaf stalk 4-1 in., stipules 4-4 in., tubular, roughly 
hairy, mouth abrupt, bristly ; flowers in very long slender 
long-stalked racemes, 6-16 in., bracts tubular-bristly, 
z-1 in. apart, 2-flowered, bracteoles narrow, transparent, 
calyx 4-fid, thin, stamens 5, alternating with glands, styles 
2, long, stiff, hooked, persistent, stigmas undivided ; nut 
oblong, with rounded ends, flattened, pale brown, as 
long as the persistent styles. 
large, stem thick, often red, branched ; leaves 4-8 in., 
lanceolate or linear-lanceolate with a fine long point, 
minutely glandular or not, stalked, stipules 3 in., tubular, 
smooth, thin, not fringed ; flowers pink or white, in slender 
erect racemes, 2-4 in. long, forming terminal branched 
clusters, bracts smooth, tubular, tip oblong or rounded, 
calyx 5-fid, varying in size, stamens 6-8, styles 2 usually, 
sometimes 8, united below the middle; nut rounded, bi- 
convex, 3-angled with 3-styled flowers, black, shining. 
see Prostrate Herbs, Alternate, Stipulate, Simple. 
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