079 XCIX. POLYGONACEJE. — i 
Bracts hairy and ciliate. Flo ers rather arge. Stamens ‘oe 7. 
Style with 2 slender branc as Nut flat or the sides convex, the 
margin obtuse. Radicle curved towards the back of the cotyledons— 
R. Br. Prod. 420. 
S its egg DEO Bay, Dallachy ; sewer to common on the - 
of lagoons, testet y, O'Shanesy, Bowman; Archer’s station, Leic 
bay ss c "i Stua 
es. Pot Jackson, R. Brown ; Blue Mountains, Woolls. 
ET Jr die nmt specimens belong to the var. axes Meissn. (P. pilosum 
Roxb.), which extends over eee e 8. China and which I am also unable to distin- 
guish from the s. Cu P. his . or at pee from the Brasilia: 
mens quoted and ed by Meissner in fart Fl. Bras t. 2, in which I find 
the embryo of tis ee onon and not of Persicaria. Of ore gla leaved 
inp with — mor ding spikes, considered s the typical Asiatic sera 
uatum, KR. Br. Prod. 420. A tall species, Mul nearly — 
allied to ‘P. orientale, the stems and foliage more or less sprinkled with — 
ear 
entirely ee, truncate and shortly ciliate, without the green limb — 
tale. Spikes continuous, 14 to 3 in. long, few on rather long | 
‘peduncles in a terminal panicle. Bracts rather thick, truncate, shortly — 
Eo or entire. Perianth, erp style, nut and embryo entire 
orientale—Meissn. in D xiv. "117. 
"ui Australia. ands of Ys Pb lf of Carpentaria, R. Brown ; v Upper Tn 
river, Sturt's Creek, Wentworth Flinders and Macarthur rivers, F. M 
N. ftd es? Near the Darling river, Victorian Expedition (a very imperfect 
specimen 
S. Au T" lai Creek, Howitt’s Expedition; Cooper's and Thomson's 
rivers, A. C. Gre 
I have not identified this with any p arms but: I am unable to disti inguish i 
from the Brasilian P. m ctabile, Mart.; Mei n DC. Prod. xiv. 119, and in. Nar Pl 
Bras. Polygon. 13. t. 3, in the seeds of ‘which E find the radicle incumbent - 
gonum. Meissner ar "n figured the embryo either in this or in P. hispidu 
4. MUHLENBECKIA, Meissn. 
Flowers mostly dicecious. Perianth of 5 one all equal us 
outer ones slightly enlarged. Stamens 8 or rarely fe fewer, por 
short , the anthers oblong in the males, small and im rfect or abo 
trifid style and 3 more or less fringed stigmas, small = rudi 
in the pe 
sistent membranous or succulent perianth.—Under aha ubs sh f the 
woody twiners, rarely herbaceous from the base; all a t least 0 
Australian species pas Stipules — and poo hitish, 3 
sheathi y: at soon torn or ragged. Flow mall, green or W nz 
in whorl-like clusters, axillary or within a sheathing — 
