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basi rotundatis vel subcordatis ; racemis pedunculatis, oblongis 

 vel cylindraceis, densis, usque ad 1 cm longis, pedunculis leviter 

 capitato-glandulosis. 



A slender, ascending, simple or very sparingly branched plant, 

 nearly glabrous, the stems often decumbent below, 4-angled, 1 

 mm in diameter or less. Nodes elongated. Leaves scattered, 

 oblong- to elliptic-ovate, chartaceous, entire, apex somewhat 

 acuminate, base rounded or subcordate, 1 to 2.5 cm long, 7 to 

 12 mm wide; petioles 5 mm long or less, inserted at or near 

 the base of the sheath, often scabrid; sheaths cylindric, split 

 down one side, brown, membranaceous, about 1 cm long, apex 

 truncate, the apical margin with erect, rigid, 2 to 3 mm long 

 cilia, the base of the sheath often with few reflexed, spinelike 

 cilia. Racemes few, short, dense, 1 cm long or less, oblong or 

 cylindric, very loosely corymbose, the peduncles slender, spar- 

 ingly capitate-glandular. Bracts oblong-ovate, margins and apex 

 prominently ciliate, about 3 mm long. Calyx pink, 3 to 3.5 mm 

 long, the pedicels short, the sepals oblong-obovate, obtuse. 

 Stamens 6, with 6 alternating, small, perigynous scales. Style 

 3-cleft, short. Achene oblong-ovate, sharply 3-angled, about 3 

 mm long. 



Luzon, Benguet Subprovince, Baguio, scattered among grasses and sedges 

 on wet seepage slopes about springs, altitude about 1,550 meters, Phil. PL 768 

 Merrill, May, 1911, Merrill 9682, May, 1914, Bur. Sci. 13Jt83 Ramos, Bur. 

 Sci. 14120 Robinson. 



A species apparently belonging in the section Persicaria, but very different 

 from the other species placed here. 



POLYGONUM CONVOLVULUS Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) 364. 



Luzon, Benguet Subprovince, Baguio, Merrill 9698, May, 1914, a weed in 

 gardens, recently introduced, altitude about 1,400 meters. 



Widely distributed in the north temperate zone, a native of Europe or 

 Asia. It has not before been reported from the Philippines. 



CARYOPHYLLACEAE 



POLYCARPON Linnaeus 



POLYCARPON INDICUM (Retz.) comb. nov. 

 Loeflingia indica Retz. Obs. 4 (1786) 38. 

 Pharnaceum depressum Linn. Mant. 2 (1771) 564, non Polycarpon 



depressum Nutt. 

 Polycarpaea depressa DC. Prodr. 3 (1828) 357. 

 Polycarpon loeflingiae Benth. & Hook. f. ex Edgew. in Hook. f. Brit. 



Ind. 1 (1874) 245. 

 Polycarpon polyphyllum Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 53, ed. 2 (1845) 36, 

 ed. 3, 1 (1877) 66. 

 This species has been credited to the Philippines by F.-Villar, who 

 correctly, I think, reduced to Polycarpon loeflingiae Blanco's P. polyphyllum. 



