PLATE 82, 
89. POLYGONUM VIRGINIANUM Linn. Sp. Pl. 360 (1757). 
Natural order Polygonacez. 
A tall sparsely hispid herb with perennial root; stem up to 15 dm. in height; 
branches hollow; leaves shortly petioled, 7*5 to 205 cm. long, elliptic-ovate or ovate- 
lanceolate, acuminate, strigose on both surfaces or only on the veins beneath, sparingly 
ciliate on the margins, thin, pale beneath; stipules tubular, varying in length up to 
14 cm., hispid, the mouth truncate and ciliate; racemes very slender and long-peduncled; 
terminal and axillary; bracts tubular, ciliate; bracteoles oblong or obovate when spread 
out, hyaline, ciliate; pedicels shorter than the perianth, rigid and stout in fruit; perianth 
4-partite, eglandular, thin, greenish or rose-coloured; stamens 5, alternating with glands; 
Styles 2, exserted, rigid, persistent, at length hooked; stigmas simple; лиф flattened, 
as long as the styles, smooth and shining, dark brown or cream-coloured, Meisn. 
JMonog. Polyg. 81 (1826); DC. Prod. xiv. i. 112 (1857); Hook. f. in Flor. Brit, Ind. v. 
31 (1886); Brition $ Brown, Ш. И. N. States and Canada i. 561 (1896). Р. 
filiforme Thunb. Fl. Jap. 163 (1784); Meisn. 1. с. 75 (1826); DC. Prod. 1. с. (1857), 
P. muticum Moench, Suppl. 266 (1802). Persicaria virginiana Gerin. Fruct. ii, t. 
1190-06 (1791). 
WESTERN TEMPERATE HIMALAYA: Hazara in the Kagan Valley, and at Dara Рап)41 
Duthie’s Collector; Kashmir; in the Jhelam Valley, and on the Ріг Panjál; Stewart; 
біккім: on the Balesan river, at elevations between 7,000 and 8,000 feet, King; Assam: 
Naga Hills, Piphema, at an elevation of 3,000 feet; 0, В. Clarke; Burma: Kachin Hills, 
Soma, at an elevation of 3,000 feet, Prain’s Collector. 
Sir Joseph Hooker, in Flor. Brit. Ind. 1. с., remarks that the long persistent styles 
free to the base, serving to attach the fruit to foreign bodies, is unique in this genus, - 
and that it indicates that the species should form a separate section; he also alludes 
to the singularity that though provided with so obvious a means of transport the species 
should be so rare in India, 
Рглте 82.—Polygonum virginianum Zinn. Portion of a plant,—of natural size. Fig. 1, a stipule 
laid open; 2, flower with 2 bracteoles; 3 & 4, bracteoles separated and laid open; 5, single stamen 
with alternating glands; 6, nut, enclosed in the persistent perianth; 7, ditto, with the perianth 
removed; 8, section of ditto, to show the single basilar seed,—al/ enlarged, 
1.0: D. 
PLATE 83. 
90. Мленилз Duram King in Hook, f. Fl. Brit. Ind. v. 861 (1890). 
Natural order Laurinez. 
A medium-sized evergreen tree with spreading branches; younger portions often 
5 silky; leaves 12—95 сш. long, oblong or elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate, often 
subfalcate, with 12—20 pairs of nerves, dark-green above, pale and glaucous beneath, 
very coriaceous, becoming reflexed as the fruit ripens; petioles about 14 mm. long; 
flowers in axillary panicles, 14 mm. in diam.; peduncles and pedicels elongating in 
fruit, tinged with bright red; sepals linear-oblong, finely silky, reflexed in fruit; 
Axx. Вот. Bor. Garp. Carc, Vor. IX. 
