Poli/gonum.'] cix. tolygonace-e (baker and wrigiit). 113 



-tJpper Guinea. Sierra Leone: in a stagnant pond at Erimakuna, Scott- 

 Elliof, 445-t ! 



IVlle Iiand. Jar: Scv\h:i Ghatt-.is, Schwein/iD-f/i, 2284; I 

 Also in Soutli Africa and Tropical America. 



19. P. erythropus, ])ammer in EikjI. Vj\. Ost-Afr. C. 170. Stem 

 erect, bright red and glabrous in the lower part, nodose, pubescent in 

 the flowering region. Leaves shortly petioled, long linear-lanceolate, 

 attenuate towards both ends, 4-5 in. long, J in. broad, densely and 

 minutely pilose above, but Anally glabrous towards the centre, hairy 

 principally on the veins beneath, margins revolute and setose-ciliate ; 

 ochrea? obliquely truncate, slightly and adpressedly pilose, densely ciliate 

 with bristles. Spikes cylindrical, 1-2 in. long, solitary or geminate, 

 panicled ; bracts obli(|uely truncate, obtuse, not glandular, setose- 

 ciliate, otherwise glabrous. Perianth glandular. Stamens G, exserted. 

 Styles 2. Nut lenticular, shining. 



lO'ile Ziand. Uganda: Evonde, ^<V//j«, 34. 



20. P. glabrum, Wilkl. Sp. PL ii. 11-7. Perennial. Stems stout, 

 erect, glabrous, ,j-4 ft. long. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, shortly petioled, 

 glabrous, or slightly hairy on the midrib beneath, narrowed gradually 

 to the base, the lower sometimes 6-8 in. long, l|-2 in. broad at the 

 middle ; ochreie large, membranous, not ciliate. Spikes dense, oblong- 

 cylindrical, H-2 in. long; bracts not ciliate; peduncles glabrous, not 

 glandular. Perianth pink, not glandular, 1| in. long. Stamens (!-8. 

 Styles usually 2. Nut lenticular, orbicular, shorter than the perianth. 

 —Wight, Ic. t. 1799 ; Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. ]U, and in Mart. PI. 

 Bras. V. i. 14 ; Aschers. in Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 170 ; A. Ptich. 

 Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 22G ; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 201 ; Hook, 

 f. Fl. Brit. Ind. v. 34 ; Gage in Rec. Bot. Surv. Ind. ii. 424. P. 

 Hijyjjopotami, Ehrenb. ex Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 121; Aschers. 

 I.e. P. nodosum, Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. Append, ii. 155, not 

 of Pers. — Schovanna- Modela-Muccu^ Ilheede, Hort. Malab. xii. t. 77. 



Wile Ziand. NuLia : \)o\\^C)\\\, Ehrenherg I Eritrea: Saganeiti, /S'f'Att'eiM/Mr^A 

 cf Rivci, 828! Abyssinia : Begemeder; Gafat, Schimper, 1537 ! shore of Lake Tana, 

 Schimper, 1512 ! Aniba Sen, Schimper, 5G9 ! Kordofan, Kotschy, 38 ! 141 ! White 

 Nile: Aba (Abu ?) Island, SchweLn/'uri/i, 992 \ banks of the Nile between Khartoum 

 and Shendy, Bromfield, 126 ! .lur : Wan, Schweinfurth, 1702 ! 



Also in Tropical Asia and Tropical America. 



A specimen cultivated in Jamaica is said to have been received from Aburi, Gold 

 Coast. 



Imperfectly known species. 



21. P. Schimperi, Vaike in Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 202, 

 name only. 



srile Iiand. Abyssinia : Gafat, in marshy places at 8500 ft., Schimper, 1542. 

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