of Polygonum and Fagopyrum. 99 



cratei'iformibus, foliis ovatis acuminatis in petiolum subdecurrentibus 

 utrinque ochreisque et caule ramoso alto molliter pilosis." 



P. orientale. Linn. Sp. PI. I. 519. Meisn. in Wall. iii. 54. 



" |3. pilosum, Meisn. Spicis nonnunquam erectis strictiusculis, floribus me- 

 diocribus, lineâ in achenii angulis subobsoletâ, pube ubique copiosiore 

 longiore saepiùs ferè aureo-sericeâ sublanugineâ." — 3Ieisn. 



P. pilosum. " Roxb. Hort. Bengal. 29." Meisn. Mon. 54. 



P. orientale (B. pilosum. Meisn. in Wall. iii. 54. 



Stem erect, branched, thick and woody, deeply sulcata, densely hairy. Leaves 

 ovate, acute, upon long stalks, whicli, together with both surfaces of the 

 leaves, are covered with a dense silky pubescence. Stipules long, spreading 

 at the top, blunt, densely covered with hair. Flowers in narrow, linear, 

 dense, long panicled spikes, with hairy peduncles ; bractese ovate, slightly 

 pointed, hairy, finely ciliated and many-flowered, each pedicel jointed 

 just below the flower, and having a rather long paleaceous scale at its 

 base, flowers small, their segments ovate obtuse ; style semibifid. Fruit 

 lenticular, compressed, its faces round and pointed, smooth, shining, the 

 rounded angles have a minute keel near their base. 



a. grandiflorum. Meisn. P. orientale of his Mon., p. 53, does not occur 

 amongst Prof. Royle's specimens. 



Gathered on the banks of the Ganges, July 1820, and near water during the 

 rains at Saharunpore. 



Sect. 3. Persicaria. Meisn. 

 8. P. lanigerum. R. Br. 



" Spicis paniculatis cylindricis densifloris, bracteis pubescentibus muticis 

 pedicellos subœquantibus, floribus 8-andris semi-2-vel 3-gynis, calyce 

 eglanduloso 4 — 5-fido, achenio lenticulari rariCis 3-quetro, ochreis cane- 

 scentibus ciiiatis, foliis lanceolatis subtùs incano-tomentosis supra ramis- 

 que incanis, caule erecto ramoso basi glabro radicante crasso sulcato." — 

 Meisn. 



P. lanigerum. R. Br. Prod. Fl. Nov. Holl. i. 419. Meisn. Mon. /0. Meisn. 

 in Wall. iii. 55. 



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