o/* Polygonum ««^ Fagopyrum. 95 



rather opake and minutely granulate-striate ; the fruit of the trigynous 

 flowers is probably 3-gonal, but none of such occurs on our specimens. 



This species may be distinguished from its near ally P. viviparian, by its 

 fruit, the length of its filaments, and by the density of the seed-bearing part 

 of its spike. In that plant the fruit is 3-quetrous, and its faces are ovate- 

 lanceolate, smooth and shining, the filaments are twice as long as the calyx, 

 and the whole spike is lax, slender, and elongated. 



Lippa in Kunawur. 



2. P. macrophyllum. Don. 



Spica compacta densâ cylindricâ vel ovatâ, bracteis ovatis pedicellis brevioribus: 

 infimis quàm superioribus sœpè lougioribus acute acuminatis pedicellis 

 superantibus, staminibus calycem œquantibus, stylo profande tripartite, 

 achenio trigono Isevi nitido, foliis lanceolatis obtusis in margine revolutis 

 costato-crenatis inferioribus petiolatis. 



P. macrophyllum. Don, Prod. Fl. Nep. TO. Meisn. Mon. Gen. Polyg. 51. 



P. sphcerostachyum. Meisn. in Wall. PI. Asiat. Rar. iii. 53, non Meisn. 

 Mon. 53. 



Stem simple, striated, smooth, a foot or more in height. Leaves lanceolate, 

 the apex itself obtuse, the margins reflexed and marked with false crenu- 

 lations, as in P. bidblferum, the under side often slightly downy, the lower 

 leaves upon long stalks, the upper ones sessile and narrower. Stipules 

 long, cylindrical, splitting on one side above, the apex rounded and 

 slightly acute. Flowers larger than those of P. vlviparum, upon rather 

 long stalks jointed just below the flower, red, in a dense compact spike 

 which is not gemmiferous ; the flowers 5-fid, their segments obtuse, 

 stamens 8, about as long or rather longer than the calyx ; style divided 

 into three parts, but scarcely to its base, and shorter than the calyx, 

 the bractese ovate, and shorter than the pedicels ; some of the lower ones 

 often having a long acute point by which they are made to exceed the 

 pedicels. Fruit 3-gonous, smooth, shining ; in a very young state in our 

 specimens, 



Kedarkanta in September, and the Chandow Pass in July. 



