Plants of the Punjab, 



549 



Prostrate Herbs with Alternate Stipulate Simple Leaves. 



Petals none. 



Polygonum 

 serrulatum, 



POLYGONACE^. 

 F. B. I. V. 38. 



The Plains to 

 4,000 ft. 



Polygonum alatum, 



Polygonum 

 capitatum, 



POLYGONACE^. 



F. B. I. V. 44. 



Himalaya, 



east of the Eavi, 



4-6,000 ft. 



Chamba, Simla, 



on rocks and walls. 



(CoUett). 



Polygonum 

 sagittatum. 



Polygonum 

 strigosum, 



POLYGONACE^. 

 F. B. I. V. 47. 



Himalaya, 



east of the Eavi, to 



5,000 ft. 



Kiilu in wet places. 



Polygonum 

 sibiricum. 



Polygonum 

 nummularifolium, 



POLYGONACE^. 

 F. B. I. V. 53. 



Kashmir, 

 13,400 ft. 

 (Clarke). 



small, perennial, smooth, stem prostrate, rooting 

 below, leaves 2-4 in. linear, or narrowed at each end, oblong 

 or lanceolate, short- or long-pointed, base rounded, 

 heart-shaped or short-pointed, stipules bristly, bristles 

 as long as the tube, racemes ^-1^ in., slender, erect, calyx 

 without glands, stamens 6-8, nut 3-angled, pohshed ; 

 for other characters see the last species. 



see 

 Entire. 



Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Stipulate, Simple, 



small, perennial, stem and branches creeping, branches 

 rooting, trailing, 6-10 in. long, red-brown, hairs brown ; 

 leaves |-1-| in., narrowed at both ends, short-pointed, ui 

 2 rows, shortly stalked, stalk ^-| in., 2 small round 

 flaps, stipules short, cuphke ; flowers minute, red, in dense 

 heads, J-^ in. diam., on hairy-glandular stalks, usually 

 2 together, bracts flat, short-pointed, calyx 5-cleft, 

 stamens 8, styles 3, partly united ; nut 3-angled, dull black, 

 enclosed in the calyx. 



see Prostrate Herbs, Alternate, Stipulate, Lobed. 



large, perennial, prickly, nearly erect, stem 1-3 ft., 

 leaves 1-5 in., linear or linear-oblong, long-pointed, stiff, 

 base abrupt or shortly heart-shaped, shortly stalked, 

 stipules 1 in., bristly, tubular, base with a ring of recurved 

 prickles, flowers minute, pink, in small racemes, ^-J in., 

 densely or few-flowered, bracts ovate-oblong, bristly, calyx 

 lobes blunt, stamens 6-8, styles 2-3, united below, nut 

 round, 3-angled, included in the calyx, black ; for other 

 characters see the last described species. 



see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Stipulate, Lobed. 



very small, perennial, stems 1-2 in. long, creeping, 

 forming matted tufts, nodes hairy, leaves jy^-l in., cir- 

 cular, stalked, bristly, fleshy, brown when dry, stipules 

 hairy, abruptly ended, flowers minute, many, white or 

 pink in many flowered clusters, calyx lobes round, stamens 

 5, stigmas 2, nearly sessile, nut round, biconvex, included, 

 smooth, pale ; for other characters see the last described 

 species. 



