PLANTS OF TKE PUNJAB. 



Herbs ekbcx, with Alternate Stipulate Simple Leaves. 

 Leaf Margins Entire. 



213 



Petals None. 



in. long, forming large terminal branched clusters, 

 bracts hairy, ovate, flat, 3-6 flowers in the axil of 

 each bract, calyx (perianth) of 4-5 segments, 

 petals none, stamens 7 or 8, alternating with small 

 honey secreting glands, enclosed in the calyx, 

 styles 2, united half way up ; nut round, ^ in. diam., 

 flattened with concave faces, coat very thick, black, 

 shiny. 



Polygonum virginianum, 



Polygonacb^. 

 F. B. L V. 31. 

 Himalaya. 

 Kashmir. 



Jhelum Eiver 2-4,000ft. 

 Pir Panjal Range 

 7-10,500 ft. (Stewart). 



large, perennial, rough hairy, branches hollow- 

 stemmed ; leaves 4-10 in., broad and tapering 

 equally to either end, thin, leaf-stalk |^-1 in., 

 stipviles l-i in., tubular roughly hairy, mouth 

 abrupt, bristly ; flowers in very long slender long 

 stalked racemes, 6-16 in., bracts tubular, bristly, 

 |-1 in. apart, 2-flowered, bracteoles narrow- 

 transparent, calyx 4-fid, thin, stamens 5, alter- 

 nating with glands, styles 2, long, stiff, hooked, 

 persistent, stigmas undivided ; nut oblong, with 

 rounded ends, flattened, pale brown, as long as the 

 persistent styles. 



Polygonum glabrum, large, stem thick, often red, branched ; leaves 



PoLYGONACEyE. 4-8 in., lanceolate or linear-lanceolate with a fine 



F. B. I. V. 34. long ]Doint, minutely glandular or not, stalked 



The Plains to 6,000 ft. stipules f in., tubular, smooth, thin, not fringed; 

 Simla in ditches (Col- flowers pink or white in slender erect racemes, 2-4 

 lett). in. long, forming a terminal branched cluster, bracts 



smooth, tubular, tip oblong or rounded, calyx 5-fid, 

 varying in size, stamens 6-8, styles 2 usually 

 sometimes 3, united below the middle; nut rounded, 

 bi-convex, 3-angled with 3 styled flowers, black, 

 shining. 



