270 XCIX. POLYGONACEJE. [ Polygonum. 
not glandular. Stamens 5. EE 2, rather long. Nut 
Véirtsolar. the sides very convex.—Meissn. n DC. Prod. xiv. 113; 
Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 306. 
d. Brisbane river, wd Bay, F. Mueller, C. Stuart ; Rockhampton, 
o Bhanesy I Rockingham } Bay, Dallac 
P Meo n, È. 2 Woolls ; New England, C. Stuart. 
Victoria. ica ipit rer oti and T ara rivers, F. Mueller 
Tasmania. Port Dalrymple, 2. Brown; northern parts of the island, J. D. 
Hooker. 
The species appears to be also in New Caledonia, if I am right in identifying with 
it Viellard’s n. 1075. 
8. P. barbatum, Linn. ; Meissn. in aa Prod. xiv. 104, Stems 
ft. hi 
b 
ascending or erect, "glabrous or nearly so, 2 to 3 ft. high. 
oe contracted into a short petiole altho m es so short as m 
le 
argin. Stamens 5 or 6. Sonir encara reas ?) 8. Nut triangular. 
eensland. Roper and Burnett rivers, F. Mueller; Port Curtis, M'Gillivray. 
The species is common in tropical Asia and Africa 
tum, R. Br. Prod. 420. Erect and rather E the 
rigid on the ma Sane Stipules s seating Set and truncate te, without 
oblique with relation to the cotyledons, but more e accumb 958. 
bent.—Meissn. in DC. Prod. xiv. 117; "P. au ustrale, dos Syst. ii. 
Queensland. Broad Sound and Shoalw oe Bay, R. Brown 
I have not seen this in any other collection, and have not be 
any Asiatic species. The habit is that of P. barbatum and P. g brum 1 m va iun 
the former in the want of the long cilia or bristles to the stipules, from the la iter long 
i ich. i : whic ved by 
petioles and the want of cilia to the stipules. 
10. P. lapathifolium, Linn.; Meissn. in DC. Prod. xiv. 119. 
erect and glabrous, except sexui cu very cuore strigose : 
margins and midrib of the leaves, and in some varieties a very jate, 
rs Me on their pue surfac oe " Leaves lanceolate or ovate-lanceo® 1 
,9 to 6 in. long o : 
sacks. exceeding the spies, the em amici dite of the under cat d 
more conspicuous than gre ies. Stipules age sre | 
P 
marginal bristles or idy with a few very small cili 
