Polygonum. | XCIX. POLYGONACER, 271 
slender, from under 1 to above 2 in. long, in a terminal branching more 
or less leafy panicle. Bracts small, truncate or shortly acuminate. 
Granth, at least the outer segments, more or less glandular and the 
me: glands extending sometimes to the bracts and peduncles. 
à glandulosum, R. Br. Prod. 419; wie fo. 
j P. adenophorum, Spreng. Syst. ii, 258; P. elatius, R. Br. Lc. 
Meisen. lc. 121. 
Queensland. Brisbane river, C. Stuart; Nerkool Creek, Bowman; Armadilla, 
am 
N. S. Wales. Port Jackson to the Blue vam R. Brown and others; New 
England, € ^ ee Argyle County, A. Qunnin gham ; Darling river, Mrs. Ford. 
m the rimi to goin qasi Robertson, F. Mueller, and others. 
i ger n] 
Common in the temperate and itid regions of the New and the ou Reis, 
especially in in di eae hemisphere. The P. nodosum, to which Meissne 
b speci chaos iler by him from the typical T. lapathifokium chiefly 
pA the omperative libus = s or glandular-pubescence t 
A the Australian ici ns vary as much as the European ones. 
P datius included the broad- Sabbath P. glandulosum the narrow-leaved specimens. 
lower Es of the stem at length labrous. Leaves Pee petiolate, 
ate, acuminate, 3 to 4 in. long or even larger. Stipules sheath- 
"E isst 
DE Wales, rM kes Oh e - Ear, also in Leichhardt's collection. 
toria. Whea fields, Snowy river, F. Mueller. 
dem 1$ common in E. India, and kia: to S. Afin | MNA nearly 
min o P. lapa enol, a which F. Mueller considers it a riety, it a ite 
cons ay to differ from ar. incanum of that in the bi vint of the white 
entum, and is sai id to Me perennial not annua 
pt SHlentalo, 1 193. An 
] Me DC. Prod. xiv. 
1 im. pubescent or dete gear x: 2 to 5 ft. Leaves on rather iong 
E v» ?& ovate or the upper ones seer ws acu ute or 
