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Plants of the Punjab. 
Herss, Erect, with ALTERNATE STIPULATE SIMPLE LEAVES. 
Polygonum 
lapathifolium, or 
simlense, 
Pale Polygonum, 
PoLYGONACES. 
F/B. I. v. 35. 
The Plains to 
7,000 ft. 
Matiana, Theog 
(Collett). 
Shahpur District 
(Douie). 
Polygonum 
persicaria, 
Persicaria, 
PoLYGONACE. 
F. B. I. v. 35. 
Kashmir (Falconer). 
Baluchistan (Lace). 
Polygonum minus, 
Polygonum 
stagninum, 
PoLYGONACE. 
By Bs vat. 
The Plains. 
Polygonum 
barbatum, 
‘PoLYGONACER. 
BB: 1:..v. 37. 
The Plains. 
Lear Margins ENTIRE. 
PETALS NONE. 
medium size, annual, branched, smooth below, rough 
with glands above ; leaves 3-6 in., lanceolate, finely pointed, 
narrowed to the base, glandular, leaf stalk short, narrowly 
winged, upper leaves sessile, margins, mid-rib and nerves 
somewhat hairy, stipules tubular, not fringed; flowers 
Js-$ in., red, in dense-flowered, erect or nodding racemes, 
1}-2 in. long, axillary, or forming terminal branching 
racemes, bracts tubular, short, not bristly, calyx 4-fid, 
glandular, stamens 6, styles 2, joined together close to the 
base ; nut round, flattened, minutely dotted. 
very like the last species, but the leaves are without 
stands, stipules hairy, fringed, bracts bristly, flower stalk 
smooth, and calyx without glands. 
see Prostrate Herbs, Alternate, Stipulate, Simple. 
small, branched or not, smooth below and hairy above ; 
leaves 3-5 in., lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, long-pointed, 
velvety with flat-lying hairs on both surfaces, glandu- 
lar or not beneath, stipules tubular, with  flat-lying 
hairs, bristles shorter than the tube; flowers white, in 
straight, erect, stout, or slender, long and strong-stalked 
racemes, bracts enclose many flowers, rough with long 
bristles, calyx of 4-5 segments, without glands, stamens 
5-8, styles 3; nut 3-angled, intensely black. 
very like the last species, but smoother, stipules more 
bearded, racemes long, weak and slender, bristles of the 
bracts shorter and weaker, 
