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Plants oj the Punjab. 



Herbs, Erect, with Alternate Stipulate Simple Leaves. 



Leaf Margins Entire. 



Polygonum 

 lapathifolium, or 

 simlense, 

 Pale Polygonum, 



Polygonace^. 

 F. B. I. V. 35. 

 The Plains to 

 7,000 ft. 

 Matiana, Theog 

 (Collett). 

 Shahpur District 

 (Doiiie). 



Petals none. 



medium size, annual, branched, smooth below, rough 

 with glands above ; leaves 3-6 in., lanceolate, finely pointed, 

 narrowed to the base, glandular, leaf stalk short, narrowly- 

 winged, upper leaves sessile, margins, mid-rib and nerves 

 somewhat hairy, stipules tubular, not fringed ; flowers 

 j\r-| in., red, in dense-flowered, erect or nodding racemes, 

 lJ-2 in. long, axillary, or forming terminal branching 

 racemes, bracts tubular, short, not bristly, calyx 4-fid, 

 glandular, stamens 6, styles 2, joined together close to the 

 base ; nut round, flattened, minutely dotted. 



Polygonum 



persicaria, 



Persicaria, 



PoLYGONACEiE. 



F. B. I. V. 35. 



Kashmir (Falconer). 

 Baluchistan (Lace). 



very like the last species, but the leaves are without 

 glands, stipules hairy, fringed, bracts bristly, flower stalk 

 smooth, and calyx without glands. 



Polygonum minus, 



see Prostrate Herbs, Alternate, Stipulate, Simple. 



Polygonum 

 stagninum, 



POLYGONACE^. 



F. B. L V. 37. 

 The Plains. 



small, branched or not, smooth below and hairy above ; 

 leaves 3-5 in., lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, long-pointed, 

 velvety with flat-lying hairs on both surfaces, glandu- 

 lar or not beneath, stipules tubular, with flat-lying 

 hairs, bristles shorter than the tube ; flowers white, in 

 straight, erect, stout, or slender, long and strong-stalked 

 racemes, bracts enclose many flowers, rough with long 

 bristles, calyx of 4-5 segments, without glands, stamens 

 5-8, styles 3 ; nut 3-angled, intensely black. 



Polygonum 

 barbatum, 



PoLYGONACEiE. 



P. B. L V. 37. 

 The Plains. 



very like the last species, but smoother, stipules more 

 bearded, racemes long, weak and slender, bristles of the 

 bracts shorter and weaker. 



