268 XCIX. POLYGONACE®. [ Polygonum, 
SP : f 
ling, 2 to 3 ft. long, with reflexed bristles on the angles of the 
ranches and on the petioles and midribs of the leaves, and a short 
Meissn. in DC. Prod. xiv. 184; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 307; P. pedu- 
eulare, Wall.; Meissn. lc. 133; P. muricatum, Meissn. l.c. 
Queensland. Brisbane river, Moreton Bay, A. Cunningham, F. Mueller; Rock- 
ingham Bay, Dallachy. 
s. 
N.S. Wales. Port Jackson, R. Brown, Woo!ls; Newcastle, Leichhardt ; New 
England, €. Stuart ; Hastings and Clarence rivers, Beckler and others. 
Vi i vens and Plenty rivers, F., Mue 
er. , 
as: ia. Port Dalrymple, R. Brown ; northern parts of the island, J. D. Hooker; 
Launceston, Gunn; South Esk river, C. Stuart. "2d 
The species extends over the Archipelago and Eastern India to S. China, he by bon 
the spikes dense or slender and interrupted, and with the pistils 2-merous or 3-me 
the same plant. 
SECT. 3. Persrcarta.—Flowers spicate, the spikes im bici: 
panicles, or rarely solitary and terminal or axillary. Embryo uos x 
wards the edge of the cotyledons (accumbent) or sometimes oblique. 
Nut flat or convex on both sides or triquetrous. 
4. P. prostratum, R. Br. Prod, 419. A prostrate brane m 
rennial, often woody at the base and rootine at the ower no Eel 
tending to 1 or 2 ft., sprinkled with slender appressed hairs Er ; 
glabrous. Leaves lanceolate, contracted into a short petiole 
rar 
Perianth 
ong, rather dense. i 
en in flower, ichs enlarged. ier 
tamens 5 or 6. Style-branches 2, not enclosed in the pore "Hook. 
eular, both sides very convex.—Meissn. in DC. Prod. xiv. 116; 
f. Fl. Tasm. i. 307. 
d. Rockhampton, O’ Shanesy. tuart; 
Wales. Nepean. river, BR done. Woolls; New Eugland, Q. Stu i 
g: am. : uellet ; i 
enelg river, Robertson ; Yarra, Sandy Creek, Ballarat, F. ^ $ 
Murray river, Herrgott; Emu Creek, Whan. ; on in various 
asmania. Port Dalrymple and Derwent river, R. Brown ; not uncomm no 
parts of the island, J. D. Hooker. : 
S. Australia. Near Morunda, F. Mueller. 
w. ! mmond, 5th coll. n. 230. 
The species is also in New Zealand. 
